RE: The GMO Thread
August 16, 2011 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2011 at 9:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Generally speaking, the tales of Monsanto's evils are greatly exaggerated. Not they are a shining beacon of agricultural progress or anything. If they offered me a job I'd take it. (I have my resume in with Monsanto, Cargill, and Con-Agra)
The IP laws are a mess, and it's probably not a good idea to allow a patent on life, but as long as we depend on private entities to solve these problems for us we'll have to deal with it. On the one hand we don't want to spend the money ourselves, and on the other we would like to avoid paying for services rendered. Kind of a strange place to find ourselves.
Monsanto gets a bad rap, notably for crop seizures. Most of the time these stories are embellished beyond belief, but lets say that a genetic crossover does occur, what should Monsanto do? Should they allow that strain to then propogate itself in the wild? Absolutely not. They have to recall. They sold a product to a farmer, he did not follow proper procedure. As a result his neighbors fields were contaminated. The farmer with contaminated fields has a legitimate grievance against his neighbor, not Monsanto. If they allowed a GMO to essentially perform it's own uncontrolled breeding experiment we'd crucify them in the public square. When they attempt to maintain control we crucify them in the public square. Face it, we're waiting with pitchforks and torches to mob these fuckers no matter what they do.
The IP laws are a mess, and it's probably not a good idea to allow a patent on life, but as long as we depend on private entities to solve these problems for us we'll have to deal with it. On the one hand we don't want to spend the money ourselves, and on the other we would like to avoid paying for services rendered. Kind of a strange place to find ourselves.
Monsanto gets a bad rap, notably for crop seizures. Most of the time these stories are embellished beyond belief, but lets say that a genetic crossover does occur, what should Monsanto do? Should they allow that strain to then propogate itself in the wild? Absolutely not. They have to recall. They sold a product to a farmer, he did not follow proper procedure. As a result his neighbors fields were contaminated. The farmer with contaminated fields has a legitimate grievance against his neighbor, not Monsanto. If they allowed a GMO to essentially perform it's own uncontrolled breeding experiment we'd crucify them in the public square. When they attempt to maintain control we crucify them in the public square. Face it, we're waiting with pitchforks and torches to mob these fuckers no matter what they do.
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