[bluerooibos]

> this is unbelievably stupid. no company should have rights or patents over a variety of food.

Wait until you hear about Monsanto/Bayer - a quick Google of "monsanto food patents" brings up the highlights.

[gruez]

>a quick Google of "monsanto food patents" brings up the highlights.

The cases seem fairly reasonable, given how the defendents were basically engaging in selective breeding to copy the traits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases#Patent_li...

[Suppafly]

>The cases seem fairly reasonable, given how the defendents were basically engaging in selective breeding to copy the traits.

This, the people that don't understand farming and buy into weird anti-gmo propaganda always claim that a simple google search agrees with them, but when you actually read the cases, it's clear that the people being sued are always in the wrong.