"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)
FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936
The best path is to end patents on seeds etc. The bullshit that no one will do the research without it, is fetid, ripe and ready to enrich soils.
A scientist will look at a leaf for thirty years making notes, you'd have to remind her to eat.
Pharma fought dishonestly, with legal trickery, visciously and underhanded betrayal to steal insulin over decades, from the diabetics it was made for, by Dr. Banting.
That's The MO of Pharma.
Moderna's vaccine is 97% gov funded.
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Kevin Russell