Well that is just typical of them. They want to OWN food.
"Hey look any crop that can survive Winter is ours. We modified it."
"But they are growing everywhere. So we want everyone who grows it to have a license to grow crops and a percentage of the price they are sold at."
Looking so important like they done something amazing with their GM crops.
"We have improved crops, made it easier to grow, any shape or size you want and to resist pests and weeds." When all they done is made "the survival of the fittest" tougher. So the weeds with their genetic genes kill of the original free crops. While life for the GM crop still goes on.
but what does worry me is this:
say you're a farmer who doesn't use GMOs and on a windy day your fields get cross-pollinated with some pollen from a nearby corporate farm that uses GMOs. that's right, you're now using GMOs even though you didn't want to. and you can probably get sued. I really think they need to regulate this better and have laws protecting people from these sorts of lawsuits.
So just some rich capitalist people who want to control the food supply for a share of our money. You can eat it but you can't grow it. Similar principle to some trend of online music. Where you can download anything you want for one price a month but after you stop paying you can't access any song. Unless of course you illegaly grow it to another source analogly. It seems like they want the protection the music industry had years ago.
For contamination slowly spreading:
Like in some part of the Matrix, "If you can't beat us, be us!".
Then Smiths will be mutating everywhere.
Seriously it is their fault for not controlling where their seeds go to. Their responsibility for where it goes. Why should farmers take responsibility for people who mess with food in a biological scale not noticeable to the human eye? I thought they should be held accountable for contaminating areas that are no their own.
Like how they tried to make space into a commodity by reflecting adverts down to earth on clear nights, now they are trying to own food.
It is like a farmer accidentally releasing his batch of animals into the wilds. Claiming they are rare species. And then suing for which land they step on and multiply to.So if I was a GM farmer paying some license to grow their crops.
One day they'll say:
"You don't need to get it from us anymore."
"But still keep on paying because its everywhere and we own it."Next thing to discuss further:
Contaminating people's land and suing them for it.
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 18 December 2006 - 03:56 PM