Is Vegetable Piracy a Thing?

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Sometime back, I'm not sure when, my missus said to me, "Hon when you go to the store, buy me a big onion. I need it for a recipe I'm thinking of trying." Being a dutiful husband ever eager to please his spouse, I bought such an onion, brought it home, and put it in the drawer of the fridge to which all such produce as onions, garlic cloves, and ... that's pretty much all that goes in that drawer. My missus acknowledged the presence of the onion and thanked me none too enthusiastically for bringing it hither from yon. Several days ago, I happened to be perusing the fridge for items to include in a dish I was preparing and came across the said onion. It had not been used for any culinary purpose; my missus having changed her mind. The onion had, however, started to sprout small green protuberances. The enterprising fellow I am when bored, I removed the onion from the drawer and, utilizing toothpicks and a plastic container of water, encouraged the onion to take root. Now that the roots have reached a certain length, I intend to plant the onion in a large planter or perhaps even in an unused raised garden my wife has expressed no interest in working this year. I have no idea if the onion will live once I plant it or if at some future point other onions will be produced by it. If this onion, once planted, does produce young onions it will bring me back to the question posed in the title. Is Vegetable Piracy a Thing, and if I enjoy any fruits the onion may produce, am I then a Pirate? Furthermore, if I am a pirate because of this undertaking, is there a union? When will I receive my hat and an eye patch? Are cutlasses still required? Oh, so many unanswered questions.