but also so that the crops are extremely aggressive. Then they'll "accidentally" lose some seeds in a farmer's land, then when their seeds take over, they'll take the farmer to court for "breaking the patent" and end up controlling the farm.
It is not a matter of being aggressive. If pollen from your neighbor's roundup resistant crop drifts into your field and you save seeds from your own crop for next year's planting, then your next years crop may violate a Monsanto patent through no fault of your own. Nothing overly aggressive is going on here, and there is no bad intent to "accidentally" lose seeds. It's just plants being plants and farmers being farmers. What's screwed up is when Monsanto then sues you for patent infringement and you lose your crop.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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