Remember how the GE Free movement said that GM was mainly about expanding the power of "IP" laws to living things, including food crops? Remember we said this would concentrate power over food production, adding a new way for corporations to extract profit from other people's work?

Seems we were bang on about the agenda. But they've found a simpler way to do it, a monopoly over crop varieties called Plant Variety Rights;

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/zespri-wins-128m-court-case-protecting-gold3-kiwifruit-rights-in-china/WFJ5BIHRNFEZLNGKZ3OSMXBNR4/

#IP #PVR

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Had a family friend - proud Kiwi grower - who banged on about China growing it. I questioned who actually owns his fruit - as he can’t sell it on his own accord. Zespri is pretty much a next gen Fontera