Re: [DIYbio] Re: Uptake of food transgenes by guy bacteria

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Cathal Garvey
<cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
> Dow/Pont haven't made such a dedicated effort to be hated, though. Suing
> individuals for patent infringement is nearly unheard of outside of GM
> crops; patents are used in most fields for killing competition and
> destroying *inventors*, not end-users.
>
> Monsanto's use and precedent for patents as weapons against potential
> customers (those who didn't pay this year, but probably would in the future)
> is bizarre, and has earned it the reputation it deserves. Sadly, it's also
> earned "GMOs" (a pejorative, I'll remind ye all)

That may be the public opinion at-large, but I for one never thought
that. The earliest I can remember anything about GMOs was with Dolly
the sheep, and I can only remember thinking how cool it was. That has
been my opinion of GMOs ever since. So I don't think it is necessarily
a pejorative term, but indeed what most 'common' folks probably think.

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