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Re:UK to allow babies from three people by task_queue on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:21AM (#8997678)
Congratulations, you were born with Monsanto mDNA Correction! Due to intellectual property restrictions, you must attain a license to activate your reproductive system and pass on our genetic code.
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Re:UK to allow babies from three people by M2Ys4U on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @03:26PM (#8999484)
I wish people wouldn't conflate those promoting GMOs with copyright/patent maximialists - the two issues are orthogonal.

Monsanto are an awful company, and a very large part of that is down to their maximalism, rather than the GMO part.

Continuing to conflate the two issues just does one's own argument a disservice (it's a strawman) while also reinforcing the maximalists' position that GMOs have to be patentable.

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