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... would YOU download a plant?
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This is already happening. There's a company who copyrighted a breed of pineapple. They charge $400 for said pineapple and the company intentionally chops the top completely off, so that it cannot be propagated. Normally, you can take the green part of a pineapple, put it in the ground, and a few years later you'll have a new pineapple. It's ridiculous.
Most plant varieties are copywrited, or somwthing similar. It's not actually as crazy as it sounds but it's definitely abused, just like all copyright law.
Living things shouldn't be copyrighted tbh. Neither should food. Plants often being both, but always the first one at least.
I think if a company is going to dump millions into developing a new product, they should be able to at least recoup the investment they made.
Who's stopping them from doing that?
Most are specially bred to produce specific styles of fresh produce, like bananas, but this was the first company I'd heard of that removed the ability to propagate. (Aside from seedless stuff like watermelon/grapes) You can go to Japan and get one of the hundred dollar strawberries and you could technically keep the seeds. Lettuce, onion, garlic, tomatoes, peppers, berries, bananas, ginger, potatoes, corn; almost everything can grow from leftover cooking scraps. Plants are resilient.
Chopping the top off, is capitalism at its worst. I can understand not allowing another company to sell the genetically modified produce, but cutting off the top lowers the shelf life and makes it impossible to re-grow. It's pure greed... especially when it can take 3+ years for a pineapple to produce more fruit.