* GMO that don't produce viable seeds so I have to buy seeds from you every season.
* GMO that only works with some other supply available only from the same provider (think of a car that only works with gas from Ford).
* Patents on living organisms: a farmer should be allowed to plant the seeds they grew in their own farm, produce hybrids and so on, without paying royalties.
* If GMO strains get accidentally cross-pollinated from a neighbor farm you should not be on the hook for it.
Strongly agreed. GM proponents try to confuse the issue with what's natural vs unnatural, that kind of thing, but for me (and you) it's never about that; GM is a tool, like a knife, neither got nor bad but for how you wield it. Monsanto want it as a form of IP and lockin.
Wendell Berry once said that agriculture is the "way we enact our dependence on the land."
Monsanto et. al. are the visible symptom of a psychological malady and spiritual poverty. Greed over the sacred bond between ourselves and the life that sustains us.
Both their GMO products and their attempts to enclose and sequester the genetic commons are part and parcel of their underlying epistemological problems.
> "You can't own land, man."
> I can because I'm not a penniless dirty hippie."
