Patenting The Seeds For The Cultivation Of Edible Plants

[Quickmill]

Hi Guys,

i'm not a farmer, but the news ( not properly verified) i had, made me think.

What happen if a company will do it and the patents registered worldwide?

Do you think could really happen?

[IsaanAussie]

No ifs, done already, Monsanto has done it. What happens is you buy their seed and grow the crop. But you cannot keep resultant seed to replant next season, you must repurchase. Would it work? Of course your load all the US agencies USDA,FDA etc.. with ex-Monsanto execs and rewrite the rules and laws. First you buy the US President, pay the election cost, nothing to lose final term. New law in the USA protecting Monsanto's "GOD" given right to rape and pillage the earth. A law that was tacked onto another bill anonymously, a process the Presidential right of veto can not stop. Smell the roses Yanks!

We are lucky in Thailand. Corruption benefits many people not just a few. More importantly, Thailand has produced drugs to benefit its people with complete disregard to patent claims from profiteering corporates,produced them here and sold them affordably or for free. I hope that if this US pollution tries to spread globally they will meet the same "Up Yours Jack" response from Thailand. If not the next best is to declare it GMO which it probably is, and ban it as the EU has down.

For me. I will repeat my comment on linked in and say - "The Chairman of Monsanto, all the directors and the shareholders, the President of The USA and all the lobbying blood sucking leeches in between, to you all, you are a curse, an embarassment and an absolute disgrace to the human race."

Edit: Wont happen here? Think again, many Thai seed companies import their stock of hybrid seeds. Just where do you think they get it?

Edited April 13, 2013 by IsaanAussie

[Mosha]

GM crops are developed to ensure the seeds produced will be sterile. IMHO we are walking a slippery path.

[qdinthailand]

If the seeds you are talking about are from naturally growing plants - I don't think you can patent them.

If you 'genetically modify' plants to introduce new genes with new traits (such as resistance to 'roundup' herbicides, which Monsanto has done), then you may patent such plants.

Edited April 13, 2013 by qdinthailand

[rice555]

Hello All, could the OP please rewrite and repost what he's trying to say!

As other posters are talking about seed, seed Co's and GE/GMO's which

in not mentioned in the OP.

rice555

Mosha, stop the porkies.

Myth 1: Seeds from GMOs are sterile.

No, they'll germinate and grow just like any other plant. This idea presumably

has its roots in a real genetic modification (dubbed the Terminator Gene by

anti-biotech activists) that can make a plant produce sterile seeds.

Monsanto owns the patent on this technique, but has promised not to use it.

Now, biotech companies — and Monsanto in particular — do seem to wish

that this idea were true. They do their best to keep farmers from replanting the

offspring from GMOs. But they do this because, in fact, those seeds will multiply.

[Scoop1]

Very interesting, Rice, i think it is already being used " Terminator Technology" is as sick as Monsanto's other claim to fame, "Agent Orange" i dont grow F1 Hybrids only Heirlooms because they have tastse and i dont fill them up with water before harvest like the majority of Commercially grown Hydroponic tomatoe cultivation.

Cheers

Scoop

[Mosha]

Hello All, could the OP please rewrite and repost what he's trying to say!

As other posters are talking about seed, seed Co's and GE/GMO's which

in not mentioned in the OP.

rice555

Mosha, stop the porkies.

Myth 1: Seeds from GMOs are sterile.

No, they'll germinate and grow just like any other plant. This idea presumably

has its roots in a real genetic modification (dubbed the Terminator Gene by

anti-biotech activists) that can make a plant produce sterile seeds.

Monsanto owns the patent on this technique, but has promised not to use it.

Now, biotech companies — and Monsanto in particular — do seem to wish

that this idea were true. They do their best to keep farmers from replanting the

offspring from GMOs. But they do this because, in fact, those seeds will multiply.

Of course the could do what they did with grapes for other fruits. Already I believe I read on TV news about seedless durian.

[rice555]

Hello All, yes Mosha, it's called Selective Breeding, like Thompson Seedless grapes. the main grape

in the raisin making. I grew up in California, one of the worlds top raisin producers.

Cal was also one of the world top prune producers, one of the Adds for prunes was "first the pit(seed),

next the wrinkles".

Some good reading about fruit trees, look up Luther Burbank.

rice555

[Quickmill]

Hi All,

sorry for my unclear OP, in effect, as i wrote, i'm not involved in farming.

Thanks to Yours replies i got a clear scenario and alowed me to find more info surfing on the web.

My original question was about what happening if a company can patenting ALL seeds ( no mention to OGM) because IMHO should be not a good thing.

The original news i got was incomplete and i tried to get some response by experts, that's all.

Thank you.

Giampiero