[karzeem]

When you buy seeds, they require you to agree not to use seeds from the resultant plants in the next crop cycle. So if you want to use the seeds again in the next cycle, you have to buy more. They have people who go to farms and test plants to ensure compliance.

Vanity Fair ran a good piece on this last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto...

[jdbeast00]

also, if you inadvertently obtain seeds (like, if your neighbor has Monsanto wheat and his grains blow into your fields) you have to kill your crop or pay Monsanto. reminds me of the RIAA's business model.