Why Seed Patents Make America’s Food System More Vulnerable

I'm shocked, shocked, to find out that the Chinese are stealing America's agricultural technology! It can hardly come as a surprise that the Chinese government actively encourages and organizes the theft of intellectual property from other nations and their companies, in this case, agricultural technology in the United States. College students are some of the most active players in these thefts, as between 250,000 and 300,000 routinely attend U.S. colleges and universities in any given year, most of them studying in scientific and engineering fields.…