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Re:Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say by tomp on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:16AM (#12015735)
> It matters nothing if you can spread food nice and even in 2017 if we get famines in 2018

That's exactly what happens with sterile GMOs if you throw away all your non-GMO seeds then can't pay next year's GMO licencing costs.

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Re:Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say by vlehto on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @02:19PM (#12044892)
Some of the most productive varieties of traditionally bred plants are sterile already.

Patent laws are completely different set of problems. They don't necessarily need to have anything to do with GMO as process.

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