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Sure. But the corporations behind some of them seem to do their damnedest to try to doom it. (We just need to make it illegal to patent plants.)
by _emacsomancer_ 9y ago
Sure. But the corporations behind some of them seem to do their damnedest to try to doom it. (We just need to make it illegal to patent plants.)
- mcv 9y agoMuch of the resistance against GMOs is not so much against purely nutritional genetic modification (like golden rice - rice with added beta-carotene for vitamin A), but to genetic modification to prop up business models, like terminator genes, roundup-ready and Bt genes.
- behindmyscreen 9y agoTerminator genes aren't used is any commercial crop. The last two make farming easier and more productive so they are very popular amoung the farmers (even the family farms)
- behindmyscreen 9y agoPatents exist outside GMOs. Honey crisp Apple's we're under patent for example. The patent claim against GMO is a canard.
- _emacsomancer_ 9y agoRight, that's why I stated my parenthetical the way I did.