A Farmer Is Being Forced to Destroy Perfectly Good Food Because a French Company Owns the Fruit
A California farmer is being forced to give away tons of edible nectarines because a French company claims patent rights over the plant variety. This isn’t just absurd β it reveals how intellectual property law has been weaponized to privatize millennia of collective agricultural heritage, engineering artificial scarcity while people go hungry. The endgame is a world where every farmer is a tenant, renting biology from corporations.