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Quite so. I highly doubt the people of Japan are better off thanks to their country suspending wheat shipments from Oregon...

• VLM 13y ago
  If you assume that the whole world benefits if no one uses GM plants, which is almost universally true except for a handful of crooks who would gain, then if Japan is part of the world, they directly benefit from participating in a boycott. This is an example of the classic freeloader problem where people too lazy to participate in the boycott will be rewarded just as much as the more ethical people who do participate. More people would understand why GM plants are evil if they were more properly called patented copyrighted licensed intellectual property, which happens to be in the form of living plants. Kind of like the renaming games played around certain ethnic groups. Another classic example of using name games to influence opinion is "He's not anti-abortion, he's pro-life", that kind of garbage. You can also get a slavery vibe going. If you modify 0.001% of the wheat genome, the multinational mega corp literally owns that living thing. So if you genetically modified my grandma to cure her glaucoma using corporate intellectual property, then they'd own a human being, right? Maybe a more direct example would be a genetically engineered fertility treatment would clearly mean the baby would be the owned property slave of the corporation who invented the treatment, right? After all, thats the decision we've made with wheat...
  • projct 13y ago
    These are arguments for fixing problems with the IP system, not against GM food.