minguinhirigue wrote:I do not agree that these seeds are "terminator" plants or that there is a total ban on reusing seeds.
so how do you make fair compensation for your work? resale tax only works if actual returns are declared.
We are indeed gradually moving towards a serious decline in the genetic variety of cultivated plans for food, it is a whole section of our agricultural and culinary culture that is disappearing.
sorry to tell you that this is wrong, it is the job of the seed banks, conservatories and INRA to conserve resources (which is done), we know that it is important to find characters of interest, you confuse with the industry that wants uniformity, creators only create according to demand and need.
A low but constant tax like that proposed by Christophe seems to be a good compromise. It would allow any farmer wishing to sell a production under a protected species name to pay a tax paying the seed companies.
this exists in the form of royalties or a tax on the first sale but which does not work
On the other hand, prohibiting the sale of strictly identical copies can be understood. It should be the same for plant species!
this is what the French state bodies are looking for, they do not want a patent but a form of protection.
Janic wrote: So only when the seeds in question are the result of research.
this is the case for 99% of cultivated varieties, the old varieties are nothing but perfumery from the point of view of varietal improvement, everything has been shaped by human hands (see the mouth of the origin of corn tomato or wheat).
clasou wrote:The living must not be a source of income, it is life.
Are you happy to eat a garden tomato? what you eat at every vegetable or animal meal has been improved by a guy for years, see decades, you do not find it normal that he can live while he feeds you?
I come back to the example of the tomato, guys for centuries have worked hard to make it eatable, I remember that it is a toxic fruit originally.
One solution is to make it an object like Monsanto or something else that includes a sterility gene.
still bullshit, for years we have made hybrid plants to have beautiful plants resistant to diseases, it is true that when they reproduce, the progeny is not identical.
si tes ogm ....
.
if only the anti GMOs knew what a GMO really is, they would stop freaking out, but on the other hand reasoning about certain partics of inserting harmful genes or in plants with a high capacity to multiply with wild plants would not be bad.
also, thank you not to confuse GMO and creation of variety, for info, 90% of the time it is bees, flies and bumblebees that do the job, it is not more natural is not it?
I vote for the writing of concrete post and practicality.
Down the talkers and ceiling fans!