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Originally Posted by Azure
The fact that Monsanto, Cargill and others are so powerful has to do with being able to patent the seed, or whatever the hell the Supreme Court allowed them to do. It has nothing to do with selling the wheat.
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Why Shouldn't they be able to patent protect that seed? Cargill/Viterra/Monsanto/Bayer/Dow put millions and millions and millions into researching and developing that seed.
If it wasn't patent protected, anyone and everyone would sell that seed and it would sewer the price. These companies would never get back the money they invested into developing this seed, and so they simply would not invest any money or time into it at all.
It's because of these companies and their patent protected seed that farmers are able to buy high yielding, high protein, disease resistant seed.