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How exactly is Monsanto supposed to recoupe the initial investment of generating a transgenic crop and getting it through the FDA to ensure its safe for human c
by kusmi 10y ago
How exactly is Monsanto supposed to recoupe the initial investment of generating a transgenic crop and getting it through the FDA to ensure its safe for human consumption if they can only charge for the first generation of seeds. The second generation still contains their unnatural transgene insert (the part which is actually under patent).
- roywiggins 10y agoIn corn at least, hybrid vigor usually means the 2nd generation crop isn't very good and farmers almost always buy new seed every year. This isn't true for all crops, but for corn, buying new seed was common long before GMOs. http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformationmodule=1075412493&topicorder=9&maxto=12 http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformat... > The crop produced from open-pollinated seed harvested from a single-cross hybrid will not be as productive as the original single cross.
- a_bonobo 10y agoThis is the correct reason - this has been going on since at least Norman Borlaug's work (the Green Revolution), you can't just keep on seeding your seeds you bought, the seed company has to keep on recreating hybrids. There's a lot of misinformation in this thread, as usual on this topic.
- mirimir 10y agoThey could have made seeds sterile.