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Garden Master
This does not happen in India as they do not hold to ANY patent laws. They killed the moped industry. They buy well built new versions built with well paid workers who work under child labor and environmental laws and copy and make it with child slave labor for 1/4 the cost. Sell it world wide thus putting honest companies out of business.marshallsmyth said:Roundup I will never use.
I refuse to encourage a company that uses the tactics that the makers of that stuff use.
Imagine; You develop a variety of commercial crop. You sell seed for that crop to a lot of farmers. A nearby farmer grows a different variety that he's been saving seed from for generations. Some pollen from the patented variety pollinates some of this old time farmer's crop. That farmer grows some seed from his crop like his family's been doing for generations. Your big huge multibazillionaire company sneaks onto the old time farmer's farmland, takes some seed, spends money to see if any of the new patented variety's genes are in the old timer's crop. They sure enough find it is part patented. SO THE BAZILLIONAIRE COMPANY SUES THE OLD TIME FARMER!!!
That, is just plum sick.
Turns out, they've been doing worse things to old farmers in India, even causing farmers there to commit suicide. No. Can't possibly turn me to having any appreciation for that company. No tactic will change my mind. Call me old fashioned.
Signed, Marshall Hugh Smyth
Imagine you spend billions and years to research, develope, legalize, etc. a new line of genetics only to have some thief steal your genetics and claim he didn't in a self pollinating crop. Of course this same thief didn't use any common practices to keep his crop pure or else how could he steal genetics. He also sold his seed as pure KNOWING it wasn't.
What is xxxxxx is that people defend thieves out of envy or ignorance.