Comment by oregano
6 hours ago
Seed sharing is fundamental to human civilization. It is a human right. Companies like Monsanto that belligerently interfere with this by claiming “ownership” of seeds are nothing less than evil.
6 hours ago
Seed sharing is fundamental to human civilization. It is a human right. Companies like Monsanto that belligerently interfere with this by claiming “ownership” of seeds are nothing less than evil.
This is a new human right I didn't even know I had
The comments in this thread make it abundantly clear there's nothing new about the right. Seed sharing predates your "TIL" knowledge of it.
There's nothing new about the practice. It becoming a human right would certainly be new.
That's like saying backhanding your kid is a human right. Every human on the planet practiced it forever.
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Perhaps because you have never had to think about the role agriculture plays in civilization.
Encourage you to look into this issue more.
I'm likely more connected to agriculture than you think. And I think seed-sharing should be enshrined legally.
That's not the same as human rights. I think it's a silly practice lately to start proclaiming all these things are human rights. Particularly (not this case) when those things have to be given to them by other humans.
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Sadly, there is no tax that Nature itself can collect on Monsanto and others