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by lifeisstillgood 4920 days ago
Because Monsanto is not competing - it is trying to use patent law to enforce its monopoly supply of the seeds

Also the area in which Monsanto operates is one where most people IMO would want the old ideals of scientific discovery and invention returned to the common to grow the whole wealth of mankind - not artificially inject a trap such that one company extracts profits at the expense of wider growth