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Who’s Afraid of Gene-Edited Crops?
https://inkl.com/a/BaJMPLTlWbl
Anyone who understands how intellectual property law works and doesn’t want to see it applied to staple foods. That’s who.
@aral But exceptionally, I would really love to have GMO lettuce that bounces like a basketball.. would be so much fun to watch the rabbits hop around w/it as they try to eat it.
@aral That shit drives me nuts.
Like, listen, you want to edit the genes to make crops more resistant to insects and bad weather situations, rock on.
You want to edit crops so that your specific strain of them won’t grow for more than one season at a time so farmers — already pressed to look at these options to stay in business — have to keep buying new strains year after year in order to keep bumping up your bottom line?
Fuck right off.
In a bunch of countries, that term has been inserted into a bunch of laws, but it's not clear as to what on earth such term is even meant to mean.
For a thought explanation, see here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html
The article seems to be about modifications to existing laws to permit editing crops genetically directly (in addition to allowing crossbred, or radiation mutated crops), rather than being about the issue of patents being granted for genetic sequences.
In most cases, genetic modification consists of utilizing *discovered* genetic sequences, rather than *invented* genetic sequences, so you would think that patent law wouldn't apply - but in a bunch of countries, patent law has been rewritten to allow for the patenting of discovered genes (as allowing the patenting of math and a bunch of other things just wasn't enough).
It would have been a lot more sensical for you to say: "Anyone who understands how patent law now works and doesn’t want to see it applied to staple foods. That’s who.", unless of course you meant other laws, but even then, you need to name the specific laws for anyone to have any idea.