[Khaled] Just as is the case with a certain company that sells farmers soy and corn seeds. It has been found in a court of law that helping a farmer save his seeds ( regular seeds, not some GMO stuff) to plant for next season is against the patent law. Meaning a farmer doing what has been done for thousands of years is illegal because he is doing something that cuts into the profit of the company that sells GMO seeds. Doing something the old fashion way that is not profitable for a certain company and is considered illegal. [tac - ] So, a big company genetically manipulates a corn genome to produce a plant that is impervious to drought. They invest $10M to create that seed line. They then sell the seeds to Farmer Green Jeans, who has a great harvest. Farmer GJ is not supposed to save the seeds for next year? What did he buy? One year of plants or the seed line? If the Big Company is supposed to recoup its investment in one season, then those seeds are going to be very expensive. If they have multiple seasons, then the seeds may be affordable. If the big company can enforce a "don't save your seeds" mentality, then they will have multiple seasons. How do they do that? Seed thugs burning down seed storage bins? Or a more elegant guvmint rule that says no seed saving? Of course the guvmint backs everything up with a gun.
So, that says the company was mistaken to engineer the crop. They cannot recoup their investment without an external force. So, how do we develop drought resistant seeds (or fancy pharmaceuticals) without the guvmint thugs? Farmer GJ is biologically justified... squirrels do it. He's socially justified, Pharaoh did it. There may be a Societal push for the company to engineer crops. Intellectually, the crop scientist was able to feed his family and enjoyed the challenge. Dynamically, the urge to make something new pushes the scientific envelope. So, what is wrong? Why is engineering a crop so expensive? Must be those Guvmint taxes and all that money being spent on pork. I don't know the economics, but it should be economically feasible. Whether it is right or not, I also don't know. Todd [Khaled] I see a lot of writing on the wall that things are going to get ugly. Health care is a battle we lost, food is next. Soilent Green is not that far off in out future. Khaled [tac - ] I'm with you there... :( ____________________________________________________________ Water Heater Some like it hot. Click now for a reliable new water heater! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=c4MB3r-_BqKdmgXyIz5JdgAAJ1BoN5 MIA846iJgpKACKCvEMAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGIAAAAAA= Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
