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My issue isn't so much with GMOs but rather the few companies that will end up owning the patents on the world's food supplies.
by ionised 9y ago
My issue isn't so much with GMOs but rather the few companies that will end up owning the patents on the world's food supplies.
- graphitezepp 9y agoGMOs are awesome. The fact that they are used to justify patenting a seed is horrifying.
- positr0n 9y agoHonest question given that GMOs are awesome but patenting a GMO seed is bad. In that scenario, how are GMO creators incentivized to create more GMO products? Sell the first seed for a billion dollars and then the person that buys that seed can give out its progeny for free?
- undersuit 9y agoHonest question given that Genetically Engineered Babies are awesome but patenting a Genetically Engineered Baby genotype is bad. In that scenario, how are Genetically Engineered Baby creators incentivized to create more Genetically Engineered Baby genotypes? Sell the first baby for a billion dollars and then the baby can give its germline cells for free upon sexual maturity? They are selling life. Life forms reproduce. It's a pretty basic assumption and if GMO merchants want to change that then they need to embrace terminator seeds.
- ptaipale 9y agoThere's no connection really. Patenting seed has been around long, long before GMO technology (around 80 years or so in the US, around 50 years in my country).