Whatever happened to selective breeding via crosspollination?
>>544835665Selective breeding is slow and random.GMO is cheaper and faster and you have more control
>>544835665>>544835722GMO is so they can file patents and make more money and control the market
>>544835665Gene editing ensures problems and scarcity once we go far-too-far with it.That's why.
>>544835722Pure laziness in disregard for nature's already present bounty, there's already Sierra Mixe Corn which fixes it's own Nitrogen for instance.
>>544835764I think individuals have a right to patent their own varieties but this shouldn't extend to corporations, this whole corporate "personhood" has to go, the argument goes out of the window anyway when corporations can be sold and if they were persons then that would be slavery.
>>544835856Look up Agrobacterium, the overuse of this is scary.
>>544835665It's faster and more importantly, companies can patent the hybrids and force farmers to buy the whole agrochemical package to make to work
>>544836160If corporations are people, then how old do they have to be before they are considered adults? Is it pedophilia to merge a younger corporation with an older one? What is a corporate marriage? Can a corporation claim rape?
>>544836416Exactly. Corporations are simply not people. Charters by people but not people themselves.
>>544835665I dropped out of school freshman year and for my GED the reading portion required I write an essay on my opinion about GMO. I wrote what I believed the system wanted me to believe about how it was a necessity and I quoted Malthus about exponential population growth etc etc and I scored in the top 99%. I was insulted by the whole thing I crumpled the “diploma” and threw it away the moment it came in the mail. What a fucking farce.
>>544836288Though legal problems due to this don't just extend to GMOs but also varieties which people aren't allowed to grow such as the Pink Pineapple. Personally I think plant patents should only be enforceable by royalties to whoever owns it but it would have to be in their name.
>>544836719I don't see the point in educational institutions awarding people for agreeing with them. It's total intellectual vanity.
>>544836856We could have been friends in another life. I hope your father lives long enough to meet your wife, meet your children.
>>544836954My father's a techie in California. I took the amateur route to science he took the professional route to science. Not sure if I'll find a wife and I'm pretty sure Autists are filtered as sperm donors.
