Dartz Wrote:The problem with GM crops isn't that they're genetically modified. It's Monsanto and their patent asshattery. And the simple fact that once you introduce these crops into a wild environment they're going to spread everywhere quite happily on their own.... which is a patent lawyers dream. They infest other farms against the farmer's will, while Monsanto lawyers move in to sting them for patent violation. Never mind what happens when stuff with a programmed-in self-kill gets out there.Yeah. We've been around this merry-go-round once before. Folks got kind of upset when most seed stock available commercially was sterile, in order to force farmers to have to keep buying it... so after they banned that, most farmers who went to buy the new fertile seedstock found themselves stuck with contracts that forced them not to replant, so that they have to keep coming back and buying more seed stock.
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