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To me, it seems that there are two sides to the GMO coin. On one, we have a technology and a science that can clearly benefit everyone, especially helping comba
by widowlark 11y ago
To me, it seems that there are two sides to the GMO coin. On one, we have a technology and a science that can clearly benefit everyone, especially helping combat malnutrition and disease in developing countries. On the other, we have 3 or 4 major companies controlling the distribution, creation, and production of GMO's both physically and legally. If we want GMO's to be effective with their intended purpose, we have to figure out how to dethrone Monsanto and Syngenta. This whole system seems eerily analogous to Computer Software and Hardware monopolization in the early 70's. IIRC, we solved that monopolization with the Open Sourced movement...
- frostmatthew 11y ago> we solved that monopolization with the Open Sourced movement There is an Open Source Seed Initiative[1][2] [1] http://osseeds.org/ http://osseeds.org/ [2] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/seed-monopoly-free-seeds-farm-monsanto-dupont http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/seed-monopol...
- BurningFrog 11y agoI'm glad we didn't address those problems by banning computers.
- sampo 11y ago> we have 3 or 4 major companies controlling the distribution, creation, and production of GMO's One reason for that is that the legislation and regulations on GMO's are so much heavier and more expensive that other crops, that only bigcorps can afford the legal process of trying to bring GMO varieties to market.