Lords of the Harvest: Seeds, Patents, and Agricultural Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Lords of the Harvest by Daniel Charles as a systems-level analysis of agricultural biotechnology, corporate seed control, intellectual property, and public trust.
The discussion examines how genetically engineered crops exposed a deeper structural conflict: seeds reproduce, evolve, spread, and adapt, while corporate systems depend on ownership, exclusion, patents, and predictable control.
The episode traces how biotechnology companies attempted to reorganize agriculture around proprietary…
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