Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn

Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by bpodgursky on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:12PM (#28124815)

This is dated. The patents on the original roundup-ready corn expired six years ago: https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/07/30/166919/as-patent...

Farmers can plant roundup-ready corn without paying any royalties to Monsanto, and keep + redistribute the seeds as they wish.

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by surfingdino on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:39AM (#28126107)

Which is why in Europe they have created a system for protection of rights to modified plants outside of the realm of patents and copyright definitions. See https://cpvo.europa.eu/en

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by sampo on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:52AM (#28126559)

CPVO is just an EU agency coordinating plant breeder's rights at the EU level. But plant breeder's rights are nothing new. The way you describe CPVO as something new and sinister, is quite dishonest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_breeders%27_rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Plant_Variety_Office

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Re:Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn by dev_tty01 on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:31PM (#28124896)

Thanks for the correction and update. I had not followed it closely in a while.

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