When you own the seed you also own the research.  

Neat little way to protect the seed from any research results that turned out to be negative, of course any in house research that goes bad can just be shredded. What was that Monsanto said about their recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) "the most thoroughly tested drug ever released".  You bet.

The scientific & progressive-social aspects of genetic modification were sacrificed on the alter of transcorporate globalization.

The idea is to create a 'norm' in which farmers and farming-businesses must go to the GMO company to get their seed each year ... and in which they gradually come to look at the GMO company as the source of leadership & direction, all-round.

We saw a similar transition with 'farm bank-loans'.  Once upon a time, a farmer had a bad year, or wanted to put a large chunk of new land into production.  To finance a transient situation, a bank-loan was taken out.  Ultimately, the government & banks set up a scheme wherein it became abnormal to do farming, without going to the bank every year, and for every piddlin' idea or circumstance.  

Obviously, this enables the banks - and the government - to 'skim' the farm-component of our economy (at everyone's expense) in a vast & systematic manner.  Banks now publicize & conduct PR, to promote their own ideas for loans the farmers need!

That's what the GMO game is supposed to do:  "Capture" the farming-enterprise so that it can be, ahem, "milked".

Response #1.  Buy open-pollinated seed every year from nurseries that specialize in maintaining IP-free and heirloom varieties.  Make an extra effort to track down sources of what seem like 'weird' crops, like wheat, rye, barley (esp. hulless), oats (esp. hulless), oilseed sunflower, soy, canola, etc.  Make it a policy during the Holiday season (when the new seed-year starts and new catalogs have come out) to spend that $10-20 or $50-100 on a careful selection of seeds.

If you don't have the dirt or water to garden, or you have no interest in gardening yourself, buy the seed and store it in a cool, dry place - just in case, ya know! - then give last year's seed away (it's still good) to someone whom you know would like to 'carry the torch'.

Include unusual things ("Rat-tail Radish" - instead of a root, produces great masses of crunchy-juicy edible seed-pods like green-beans and snap-peas), so your give-away stock isn't just the same-ol' stuff and has novelty-value.

I hadn't thought of that. Do it under the guise of "I didn't get around to planting this last year, do you want to try it? It's something different, maybe you will like it."