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No the US is a free market for the most part however there are some industries that have monopolies. I am open to the idea that the gov't created a seed monopoly. Just give me a little evidence other than the seeds being infertile.
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They patent some genes in their plants.
A patent is a government guarenteed monopol for a certain thing.
Genes already exist in nature and a company that patents a gen only does the job of figuring out what the gen does, but doesn't really have to create a new gen.
There are also problems with loss of diversity amoung crops through gen manipulated seeds.
That makes it more likely that a new disease kills a lot of crops in a single year.
Diversity is important to increase crisis resistence.
Last genmanipulating to have stronger pesticides or resistence against some vermins doesn't sound like a good idea.
On the other hand I don't have something against gen manipulating that is used to increase the size of some crop or to increase the concentration of vitamins if it's done in a way that doesn't decreae diversity to much.