How can you order a farmer to destroy their trees? I hope he fights in a higher court. Wish I’d heard about the nectarine giveaway. I’d have gone to pick some.
How can you order a farmer to destroy their trees? I hope he fights in a higher court. Wish I’d heard about the nectarine giveaway. I’d have gone to pick some.
It’s sad that we just make these kinds of legal agreements about living things that take a long time to grow and live and then just capriciously say no sorry you have to slaughter them all because contracts?
We don’t deserve this earth.
To be specific:
What you’re upset about is genetic copyrights, and if this pissed you off there is much much worse that goes on.
It’s far from the biggest issue, but Def needs attention and I encourage anyone to look into it and try to get involved.
For an example:
Company’s that own a patent can release spores causing cross contamination, then sue a farmer at harvest for their crop containing copyrighted genes.
And there’s nothing the farmer can really do, it’s a genetic copyright, it doesn’t matter how genes got there.
Corporations can “lose” their property, and still retain rights on later generation plants.
There is no possible way to stop it. Pollination is just gonna do what pollination does, it’s nature.