Kashif Khan warns that U.S. grocery stores are pushing seedless fruits and vegetables controlled by four agribusiness giants: Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF. Farmers must buy new seeds each season because seedless produce can't reproduce, and saving patented seeds is illegal. Khan recommends buying heirloom seeds and growing your own to reclaim seed sovereignty.
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Grocery stores all across America are quietly replacing every fruit they can with a seedless version. Watermelon, grapes, oranges, tomatoes— everything is seedless now. And once you find out who owns the seeds that are left, you're not going to look at the produce aisle the same way again. Here's the thing about seedless fruit: it can't reproduce. This is the entire point. A seedless watermelon is built sterile on purpose, which means the farmer has to buy new seeds every single season. Every navel orange on the earth is clone of one tree that mutated in Brazil around 1820. So the only way to get another one is to cut a piece of it off and graft it. Now look at who's on the other side of that— 4 companies: Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF. They control more than half of the entire global seed market and about 61% of pesticides. And under US patents, saving seed from a patented variety and replanting it is illegal. So the food supply is being built around plants that can't reproduce, owned by 4 companies, and a farmer who saves his own seeds can be sued for it. So start small. Buy one packet of heirloom or open-pollinated seeds, grow one single thing, and save that seed at the end of the season. Tomatoes are the easiest place to start. Make sure to follow because I post stuff like this every single day.