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The increased monopolization and mono-culture of agriculture created by companies like Monsanto

Monsanto creates the monoculture? That problem has been going on since the dawn of agriculture. If anything, I would suspect that their breeders know as well as anyone the dangers of genetic uniformity and I highly doubt Monsanto wants their products to fail. Their investment in things like Svalbard demonstrate that. Furthermore, there are plenty of lines of many major crops to choose from. Take your pick, there's tons of suppliers.

In my personal opinion the main driver of monoculture is people. Look around. See many people going out of their way to buy crops like amaranth, malanga, mâche, cassabanana, pili nut, or cactus apple? Because I don't. Maybe if people did more to create a demand for true biodiversity we would see more of it. Put blame where it is due; to do otherwise is to do a disservice towards achieving a solution. We are the problem, and the agricultural industries are only reacting to our poor decisions. Do you think anyone is going to invest in something like Job's tears or salicornia or ulluco or Japanese raisin tree if they think it is going to be an economic loss?

A great many of the foods I buy are from a limited number of lines

Which is true even of non-patented crops. You are blaming the wrong thing.

Which means they can sue their customers' customers for patent infringement and they have.

No, they sue farmers who intentionally propagate patented material, not just random farmers. Big difference. If you don't want to get sued, don't do that.

A lot of people have a /8 network. From what I remember from my networking class, there was a scheme for how the ips should be divided.

If the first digit is less than 128 (ok, in reality, it is 127), they get a /8. If it is less than 192 (I think this is about where it is) they buy in a /16. If it is over 192, they get a /24.

Of course these can be subdivided.

Other examples of people who have /8 networks

MIT 18.0.0.0/8
Merck & Co., Inc 54.0.0.0/8
General Electric 3.0.0.0/8
US Department of Defence 6.0.0.0/8, 7.0.0.0/8, and 11.0.0.0/8
Genuity 4.0.0.0/8 and 8.0.0.0/8
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) 12.0.0.0/8.

And that is just barely touching the surface.

--CPM

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