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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by harryh on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:44PM (#11546349)
Just because plenty of writing still happens doesn't mean that George RR Martin spends years of his life writing Game Of Thrones without copyright.
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Re:Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto by vacri on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:55PM (#11546971)
You were saying that the work would not get done, not that Monsanto specifically would not do the work.

There's plenty of other entities that would be interested even without patents. Large agribusiness would be interested in increasing yields (your 'bigger banana'). Health organisations would be interested in dietary components (your 'vitamin A deficiency'), and it's not like research universities are forbidden from doing agricultural research.

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