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mmonk

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6. The lawsuit protecting farms then is invalid?

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 29, 2015, 01:58 PM

Jul 2015

Why not just pass a statute farmers cannot resell their seeds? Case is then closed. or would that infringe on their rights to engage in trade of a particular product? Whether recognition by Monsanto fields can be contaminated exits, it is a valid question.

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Michael White vs Monsanto [View all] mmonk Jul 2015 OP

There is no right to save and replant patented seed and never has been Major Nikon Jul 2015 #1

I was waiting. mmonk Jul 2015 #2

That makes him an even bigger crook Major Nikon Jul 2015 #4

There is also fear of contamination. That fear prevents farmers from saving seeds or reselling them mmonk Jul 2015 #3

Which is just more utter nonsense Major Nikon Jul 2015 #5

The lawsuit protecting farms then is invalid? mmonk Jul 2015 #6

Such a law would be utterly ridiculous Major Nikon Jul 2015 #7

Seeds do travel. mmonk Jul 2015 #9

Used cars aren't replicable Major Nikon Jul 2015 #10

You mean replicable as modified. mmonk Jul 2015 #11

I mean your analogy is significantly flawed Major Nikon Jul 2015 #12

Until the buyer of the modification tried to sell. mmonk Jul 2015 #13

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That case was from a group trying to proactively sue Monsanto for something they had never done Major Nikon Jul 2015 #16

They were suing preemptively for protection. mmonk Jul 2015 #17

Protection from something that had never happened and there was no intent to ever happen Major Nikon Jul 2015 #18

It does not say that he signed a roody Jul 2015 #20

Monsanto and companies like it are despicable scum. blackspade Jul 2015 #8

Perhaps, but Michael White is no prince either Major Nikon Jul 2015 #14

Monsanto's owners, executives, board of directors, scientists, salesmen, lawyers, politicians and Dont call me Shirley Jul 2015 #19