you wouldn't download a blueberry

What? You think a bunch of Asians can grow blueberries without American assistance?

Lol get fucked Driscoll

Driscoll's business model is basically like this:

1. Have access to largest buyer of berries in the US (Walmart, as well as others) and monopolize berry contracts for all walmart stores

2. Have a monopoly of the genetics of the berries Walmart is contracted to buy.

3. Sell berry seeds, etc to farmers up front so all the risk of growing (crop failure, contamination, etc) is placed squarely on the growers and not on Driscoll. The farmers can actually owe Driscoll money if they can't harvest.

4. Monopolize the distribution rights for what the farmers produce

Fuck Driscoll and their shitty berries

Before I leave my comment, know I've read my Corey Doctorow and understand completely how companies like this could slap some IP on a blueberry genome or DNA sequence to make it proprietary. That being said:

How the fuck do you copy growing blueberries? LOL

For Chinese consumers, it was a blueberry bonanza. Prices dropped so low—often $3 or less for a 9-ounce container—that state media trumpeted an era of “blueberry freedom,” in which even ordinary people can gorge on a once-exotic fruit.

For just about everyone in the blueberry business, though, it has been a knife fight, plagued by intellectual-property theft and tanking profits.

A healthy nutritious food is now cheap and widely available, but at what cost?? $3 or less apparently

Driscoll’s has filed more than 20 lawsuits against companies in China, some of which it has said took its proprietary blueberry plants, propagated them and sold them to rival growers. Some Western fruit companies worked with private investigators who went undercover at plant nurseries, posing as traders or farmers so they could buy plants and hustle them off to labs for DNA testing to prove they were pirated.

"IP theft" of growing blueberries? We live in the stupidest of all possible realities

Awww did someone not understand how other nations don't have to respect your corporate rights? How maybe making things cheaper for everyone is broadly a good thing so no one will help you!

China is genociding free radicals!

This made me think of that zoomer who got popular with their video about capitalists having grocery stores and "blueberries in January" lol

Okay so, capitalists will find something super beneficial for humanity, recognise the money that they can make by keeping it hidden & having an advantage in the market; Then when you do what they should have done and utilise this net positive on mankind, they call you an evil thief.

My resentment for the bourgeoisie never stops rising.

If your "theft" results in less hungry people in the world keep thievin'

"IP theft"

capitalists think they are gods who created nature

It's October soon so I should plan a trip to Tucumán for the sole purpose of stuffing my face with blueberries at 1 USD per kilo goddamn I miss that horrible place

When that was? I can recall even Poland got suddenly flooded with locally grown and cheap American blueberries two or three years ago.

Plant Breeders Rights are so fucking stupid and should not exist. IP laws should not exist, even doubly so for fucking food.

I drink your (blueberry) milkshake! I drink it up!

Going into my neighbours garden, scorching and salting the earth, because I grew sunflowers first and I have to protect my intellectual property.

Vaccinium my beloved

"IP theft" aka growing your own food and preventing foreign corporations from extracting profit from your own people

There is no pit deep enough for journalists at the WSJ.

Dialectics. Open new foreign markets, foreign markets open you too.

Ha, I was just talking about this the other day in the news mega in regards to another fruit China is accused of stealing: shine Muscat grapes. It's really funny how much the western press is having to scrape the bottom of the barrel for China Bad news these days

I’ll bet it has somthing to do with sticking them in the ground and watering them sometimes.

You have a loicense for those blueberries?

Damn you CHINA!! STOP it already!

I can only love you so much.

I fucking love blueberries. Thank you China!

Let me get this straight. Huge, wealthy US company moved employment's roles and functions away from America. They continued to make money, even though they moved the jobs and industry to China. Now, Americans are expected to be upset by this turn of events?

Can confirm they good, big, and cheap