Terminator is beside the point. Hybrid is the point. even before GMO, hybrid plants are good THAT YEAR. many of them naturally are sterile, like mules, and many of them reproduce the second time to start expressing recessive genes, (remember ye old D and R charts!). So lots of hybrid varieties need to be rebought every year for the freshly hybrized anyways.
The main fears with a lot of protesting farmers are issues with the SALESMEN. A lot of the GMO's that are immune to various parasites or molds that plague that particular plant also have changed needs because of it. some need more or less light, a lot tend to need a LOT more water, and what was traditionally a drought tolerant crop has become one that needs more water than the farmer can supply. And the salesmen don't TELL the farmers this, that was often an issue, they would sell this seed that is immune to x y and z pests, and not tell them, OH! you need to give them 5 times the water, or they will all die. Then the sprouts wilt and die, and the farmer is out a LOT of money.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Cathal Garvey
<cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
> Dude. Do some research. Monsanto never shipped Terminator after the public
> backlash
Dang, I was swindled by popular media. Actually I assumed the Haitians
I saw protesting were doing so because of fears terminator genes,
because they used some slogan about getting caught in a cycle of being
forced to buy seed each year.
'Monsanto | Myth: Monsanto Sells Terminator Seeds'
http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/terminator-seeds.aspx
I guess I don't understand why more countries aren't pirating, I guess
I don't know enough about international politics to know why Haiti
would care to mind American IP. Maybe the protesters didn't really
even know what they were protesting.
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