Patenting seeds and prohibiting reuse should be outlawed.
“Patenting seeds and prohibiting reuse should be outlawed.”
Without patent protection, there would be little incentive to produce new, better crops. Ergo, the choices are: No new plants, or new plants that are patented for 20 years.
That said, should the pollen of patented seed make its way into non-protected plants by no fault of the farmer growing the non-protected plants, then the farmer should have the right to sell the crops without paying a licensing fee.