• IMongoose@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Possibly, but there is no proof of this. In all the court cases Monsanto has won (which is apparently all of them), the defendant was trying to scam the company.

    https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/01/05/dissecting-claims-about-monsanto-suing-farmers-for-accidentally-planting-patented-seeds/

    They have a disclaimer (which is not legally binding though) that they will not go after accidental cross pollination.

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      8 months ago

      the defendant was trying to scam the company.

      No, that’s a lie. Monsanto may have characterized it as “scamming,” but I don’t give a fuck about monopolists’ opinions and neither should anybody else.

      Even intentionally preferentially gathering and replanting “Monsanto’s” “patented” seeds is not wrong, end of!

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        8 months ago

        These are public court cases, Monsanto isn’t characterizing anything. The ones I’ve seen are deliberate attempts to use the seeds without paying. Do you have examples of a farmers livelihood destroyed by Monsanto? Because it doesn’t seem good business to me for them to attack random farmers. I implore you to look at the link I posted or google it yourself.

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          8 months ago

          The ones I’ve seen are deliberate attempts to use the seeds without paying.

          Yes, I know. Re-read my last sentence.