Monsanto Seed Patents

Soybean seeds aren't finite like fossil fuels. They're specially grown. If you don't want to use patented seed, don't use it. Use organic seeds if you want (and many farmers do). Otherwise, pay the IP holder. Monsanto isn't a monopoly, and you have several other GM competitors to choose from.

The issue in the U.S. is that flowering plants seeds travel by wind. So farmer A who bought Monsanto seeds infects farmer Bs field, who then can no longer legally harvest the seeds from field B because they contain Monsanto IP. Not sure if this applies to crops in Ghana, but its true in the US.

Crop patents are older than GMO, a lot of crops and seeds are patented. Do we have to ban them?

The issue here is that farmers have been planting crops and saving some of the seed generated for the next season probably from Day 1 in agriculture. Monsanto seeks to insert themselves into this highly efficient process, blocking the replanting of seed and instead extracting for themselves a significant amount of money.Farmers are free to enter into this relationship since the seeds do conver some advantages in reduced use of pesticides etc. but there is a significant problem with cross-cont

Though yes, I hope ultimately humanity will prevail -There are cases where farmers in adjacent plots were sued for using monsanto 'patented' plants without a licence because their crops cross-pollenated with Monsanto ones - further, if I recall correctly, Monsanto was illegally stealing crop samples or using some other form of shady tricks to perform the analysis required to determine the plants contained the 'patented' genes..Also, much like bacterial resistance in oth

GM modified seeds can not be usually replanted after harvest. Sometimes they need proprietary fertiliser.Genetic sequences are patented. There was a case where GM seeds spread to neighbours, and Monsato sued neighbour...It is horror show similar to software patents.

That's not true: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/patent-cases

This sounds similar to when Monsanto tried to patent seeds and sued small farmers out of their livelihood.

Until you cross-pollinate with Monsanto's seeds on accident, and they sue you for IP infringement.

It is controversial as the farmer was actually doing breeding himself 50 years using his own seeds. His actions were the actions of the breeder.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser#Monsanto_v._Sc..."In 1997, Percy Schmeiser found Monsanto's genetically modified “Roundup Ready Canola” plants growing near his farm. He testified that he sp