Interestingly enough there is a parallel push to destroy heritage seed lines making us dependent on hybrid seed. And Hybrid seed you cannot replant, you have to buy every year. Heritage seeds sprout true, save a little seed and your ready for next year.
They not only want to control the money, but the food, and are obviously building in the ability to shut it down when they want. So the bottom line is this, redistribution is not about making poor people wealthy, its about making wealthy people poor.
The seeds from a plant grown from hybrid seed will grow just fine. They won’t have exactly the same properties, perhaps. The only reason you “can’t” plant them is that the government has granted a monopoly to a company that did the hybridization, and for some reason extended it to seeds from hybrid plants, even though they don’t breed true and are therefore not the patented strain.
(Any bets on how long someone will take to chime in that patents are “property”, not state-granted monopolies? I’m guessing someone shows up to object to my post within the next ten posts to the thread.)
Incorrect.
I do not use artificial fertilizer and my hybrids do just fine.
My parents do not and their hybrids do just fine.
Too soon to tell with my brother's place but I doubt it will be any different there.