Yes, the opposition is as much about things like patents on seeds and refusing to allow farmers to harvest seeds for their next planting season. There's also t

Yes, the opposition is as much about things like patents on seeds and refusing to allow farmers to harvest seeds for their next planting season. There's also the problem of making plants resistant to herbicides, then applying more herbicides, so you get lots of herbicide runoff into lakes and streams. This is really more about upping sales for the chemical manufacturer. Also there are better methods for getting rid of weeds, I particularly like these field-crawling robots that identify weed seedlings with AI-vision and blast them with IR lasers.