‘Boy, they’re not gonna take the trees out easily,’ the farmer has said

How can you order a farmer to destroy their trees? I hope he fights in a higher court. Wish I’d heard about the nectarine giveaway. I’d have gone to pick some.

  • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    16 days ago

    It’s sad that we just make these kinds of legal agreements about living things that take a long time to grow and live and then just capriciously say no sorry you have to slaughter them all because contracts?

    We don’t deserve this earth.

    • rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      15 days ago

      There are tons of products that end up destroyed simply due to accounting practices. As a business, you can’t just keep product around in the hope that you sell it next year, even if it’s completely non-perishable. You are required to write it off as a loss and get rid of it. If no other business is willing to buy your unsold stock at a bulk discount, then it goes in the dumpster.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      15 days ago

      To be specific:

      What you’re upset about is genetic copyrights, and if this pissed you off there is much much worse that goes on.

      It’s far from the biggest issue, but Def needs attention and I encourage anyone to look into it and try to get involved.

      For an example:

      Company’s that own a patent can release spores causing cross contamination, then sue a farmer at harvest for their crop containing copyrighted genes.

      And there’s nothing the farmer can really do, it’s a genetic copyright, it doesn’t matter how genes got there.

      Corporations can “lose” their property, and still retain rights on later generation plants.

      There is no possible way to stop it. Pollination is just gonna do what pollination does, it’s nature.