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This is a meaningless distinction. It's like saying two files with idential content and checksum are different because one file was written by Vim and the other
by sanxiyn 9y ago
This is a meaningless distinction. It's like saying two files with idential content and checksum are different because one file was written by Vim and the other by Emacs.
- roywiggins 9y agoThe law can and does make this sort of distinction. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
- chc 9y agoI don't see what IP law has to do with nutrition.
- manicdee 9y agoEverything, since the nutrition comes from things that are covered by IP law.
- roywiggins 9y agoThe law can, if it chooses, make a distinction between on the one hand a plant with a genome produced by non-GMO methods and on the other hand a plant with the same exact genome produced with GMO methods. The law regularly chooses to pay attention to things like this even though nature makes no distinction.
- chc 9y agoSure, but that doesn't have any affect on the safety of eating the plant, which was the topic here.