They’re not sterile, but they will sue you if they find you’ve been growing seeds from last year’s crops.
Why invent technology to control people when you can just use the law?
The moratorium is actually since 2000, but only since 2006 in its current form. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology
Thankfully, no country, much less any multinational corporation, would ever dare cross the UN’s nonbinding, unenforceable moratorium. Can you imagine how stern the tone of the statement of condemnation would be, once it was worded such that a reasonable plurality of countries would agree to back it?
GMO skepticism or not, Monsanto is one of the most evil companies in the world and a perfect example of what makes the profit motive such an inefficient organizer of production and distribution
Does anyone else feel like this entire post and most of the comments are coming straight from a Monsanto bot/shill factory?
You’ve never been on reddit? If someone mentions Monsanto anywhere, the thread gets flooded with shills. There are whole subreddits devoted to finding posts to shill.
That’s what I love about small social media outlets like Lemmy. The big corporations just don’t bother monitoring and influencing us, it’s not worth it. We can speak freely here. You can just tell me your real name and where you live, without fear of someone abducting your family.
Unfortunately terminator seeds very much are a thing North America.
I’m not a native English speaker but that sounds like it’s talking about the potential harms of such terminator seeds and not saying they’re in the market as of now.
I’m the guy on the left just because until for-profit corporations are reigned in I don’t trust them with control of anything.
also the 30 bagged lunches…
You know that Lemmy has made it when the Monsanto shills from Reddit join.
Whatever the case, fuck Monsanto; free the seed.
What about seedless watermelon
Companies DO irradiate non organic ginger though, sterilizing it, before shipping it to stores.