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Seedless fruit has taken over supermarkets

13 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Kashif Khan explains that seedless fruits such as watermelons, grapes, oranges, and tomatoes are deliberately bred to be sterile, preventing farmers from saving seeds and forcing them to purchase new seeds each season. He highlights that four major corporations—Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF—control over 60% of the global seed market. Khan also points out that seeds are now patented, making it illegal to save and replant them, and notes that farmers have faced lawsuits for doing so. He emphasizes the growing alarm over these practices and urges viewers to share the information to increase public awareness and hinder the continuation of these covert strategies.

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Watch this woman try to find one watermelon with seeds in it. She walks past 8 different baskets. Every single one said seedless. Cut one open and you'll still see seeds in there, little white ones. Those aren't baby seeds that didn't grow up yet. They're empty shells. They were built that way on purpose. You can plant 100 of them and nothing will come up because a seedless watermelon is bred to be sterile on purpose, which means the farmer growing it has to buy brand new seeds every single season. Forever. He can never save his own. And it's not just watermelon, grapes, oranges, tomatoes. It's happening across the whole food aisle. And so who's selling the seed? 4 companies: Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF. Between them, they control more than 60% of the seeds on the planet. And even if you found a real seed and grew it, the law is already ahead of you. Seeds get patented now. And if a seed is patented, saving it from your own plant and putting it back in the ground is actually illegal. Farmers have actually been sued for this. This is getting more alarming every single year, which is exactly why it matters more that you share this, because the more people who know about it, the harder it gets to keep doing it quietly.