Originally Posted by
tommo
I agree with some of what you have said.
That is not the GM that I condone however.
What I'm talking about is creating plants that use less nitrogen (which is BAD for the oceans, and therefore the whole world, as I previously stated), or plants that produce more beneficial vitamins and minerals, or just more edible matter.
These are not bad things, and there's no reason it would mutate and harm us, any more than the plants we have now would. Because you're changing the same thing we have been since we started selecting the best plants' seeds to propagate, just faster.
I definitely agree that they should not be copyrightable, or even sold to companies at all. And therefore that there would be no reason to make them not produce fertile seeds.
BTW, the seed thing doesn't really work very well. They've been doing it just through selection (slow GM, really) for years now. Yet you can still throw an apple in the garden and grow an apple tree.
I haven't seen any credible sources for this. And anyway, good luck growing our current plants in poorer nations with drought.
Even in Australia, bananas go up in price dramatically every few years basically. It is because of floods which destroy the farms. Not false scarcity.
And drought here affects food supply in the worst times as well.
