They make it illegal, and then folks fret, and it becomes an underground activity, something sleekit and hidden, because to be open about it, to protest, is to be illegal and face prosecution, or to be sued and financially ruined.
If the companies have the right to anything grown 'illegally' with their seed, even if it was adulteration of fertilisation by an outside vector (bees, wind, flies, etc.,) then they can claim the right to destroy the crop.
Who's going to risk major financial disaster by saving or swapping seeds ?
Small growers, hobbyists, home growers, etc., get felled by the knock on effect.
The companies have already underhandedly created an eco disaster in the making with major food seeds now bred to be infertile. It's keeping their profits up because folks have to buy new seed from them every year. If they manage to make old, fertile, breeds illegal, then they totally wipe out any competition.
Me ? I sew seeds all over the place
I aim for either indigenous or traditional crop seeds, but if every garden and wild bit in the land grows something, and folks just keep passing them along.....well, it's just bird food, isn't it
cheers,
M
