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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by ionised on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:37AM (#14970240)
My issue isn't so much with GMOs but rather the few companies that will end up owning the patents on the world's food supplies.
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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by graphitezepp on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:56AM (#14970527)
GMOs are awesome. The fact that they are used to justify patenting a seed is horrifying.
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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by positr0n on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:03PM (#14971909)
Honest question given that GMOs are awesome but patenting a GMO seed is bad.

In that scenario, how are GMO creators incentivized to create more GMO products? Sell the first seed for a billion dollars and then the person that buys that seed can give out its progeny for free?

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by undersuit on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:46PM (#14972351)
Honest question given that Genetically Engineered Babies are awesome but patenting a Genetically Engineered Baby genotype is bad.

In that scenario, how are Genetically Engineered Baby creators incentivized to create more Genetically Engineered Baby genotypes? Sell the first baby for a billion dollars and then the baby can give its germline cells for free upon sexual maturity?

They are selling life. Life forms reproduce. It's a pretty basic assumption and if GMO merchants want to change that then they need to embrace terminator seeds.

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by ptaipale on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:41PM (#14973373)
There's no connection really. Patenting seed has been around long, long before GMO technology (around 80 years or so in the US, around 50 years in my country).
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