Wednesday, December 17, 2025

It was never about feeding the world. It was about controlling the seed


Niklas Gustafson just dropped the clearest, most chilling explanation of how we lost control of our food.

This is what he shows, step by step:

  • 1980: Corporations win the right to patent living seeds
  • They slightly modify what nature already created → instantly own it forever
  • Farmers who saved seed for 10,000 years are suddenly criminals if they replant their own harvest
  • Today just 4 companies control >60% of all commercial seeds worldwide (some vegetable seeds: 95%+)
  • Their seeds are designed to survive only their chemicals → you buy both, every single year
  • Break the contract? They sue you. Plant something else? The crop dies anyway.
Result:

  • Independent farmers turned into customers with no way out.
  • Ancient seed diversity collapsing.
  • Soil degrading at record speed.
  • Food moving from fields to factories.
  • Gustafson ends with the line that hits hardest: “This wasn’t about helping farmers. It was about replacing them.”

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