The most enraging thing i learned from watching The Future of Food is that the Supreme Courts of the U.S. and Canada have decided to protect the patent rights of some of the most unscrupulous corporations on the planet such as Monsanto. Naturally, these corporations should never have been allowed to patent a life form in the first place. To make matters worse, the courts have absurdly ruled that farmers whose fields become contaminated with genetically modified Monsanto seeds from a neighbouring field are guilty of patent right infringement, which means that Monsanto can successfully sue the farmers. Instead of making corporations responsible for keeping its GMO crops out of the non-GMO crops (and out of our food supply) farmers are expected to keep genetically modified seeds from blowing into their fields.

Let’s put the public good back in public hands. Let’s put an end to the patenting of life.