Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them

Re:Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them by newswriter99 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:47PM (#19750658)

Trying to copyright organic life is tricky because as Jurassic Park taught us, stuff tends to get out.

So did the farmers "steal" the potatoes used for lays chips, or did they have no choice in their selection due to factors?

Monsanto's sterile "terminator seeds" technology are a great example of this same issue.

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Re:Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them by zaphar on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:31PM (#19751146)

The article says that the farmers had either bought the seed from other farmers who had grown the crop before and held some seeds or that they had themselves held back seed from growing the crop.

The case seems to revolve around whether they are allowed to do under Indian law.

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Re:Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them by defterGoose on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:54PM (#19753651)

I often think (worry?) that this would be great material for a dystopian sci-fi novel. Something about a rogue strain of engineered DNA killing all the crops and leaving the world foodless. Kinda like the ice in Cat's Cradle.

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Re:Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them by newswriter99 on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:10AM (#19757649)

How did I not hear about Cat's Cradle until just now.

I burned through the top 100 sci-fi books (audiobook versions, but still) in 2015. Somehow this wasn't on the list.

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