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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers by xedrac on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:34AM (#34740971)
What is a farmer to do when mother nature infects his crop, against his will, with pollen from the GMO crop? I think the lawsuit should go the other way. Monsanto should pay for destroying the ability to grow heirloom seeds without getting infected. They want to keep it protected? Then require it to be grown in quarantine.
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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers by tedunangst on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:47AM (#34741182)
If you want to keep roundup ready crops from spreading among your heirloom crops, I would recommend against spraying the heirloom crops with roundup.
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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers by HDThoreaun on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:17AM (#34741693)
All the farmer had to do was not apply roundup to his crop when he hadn't planted the roundup resistant seeds.
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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers by xedrac on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:20AM (#34741727)
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that his crop is being pollinated against his will, and why should he lose the freedom to spray something on his crop because his neighbor planted a certain seed? Why does it have to infect everyone like a virus?
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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers by kasey_junk on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:58AM (#34742313)
Because spraying roundup on non-roundup ready crops has 1 outcome, it kills them. There is no reasonable reason to do it other than to avoid the patent.

If roundup ready crops end up in your fields accidentally and then you don’t spray roundup you don’t run afoul of litigation.

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Re:“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers by onepointsixC on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:46PM (#34749388)
Spray his crops with something that will 100% kill all of his original crop and only keeping the cross contaminated crop, which he will then specifically cultivate. Common now, it's really a shut and close case. He had no explanation as to an alternative valid reason to have done so and lost the case.
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