Gene Giants: Climate saviors or profiteers?

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Biotech companies seek hundreds of patents for genetically modified "climate-ready" seeds

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[lordblazer]

So babsically huge corporations are telling the third world that their methods are archiac and you should buy our seeds, and for a matter of fact farmers can't reuse the seeds for the next sowing. They have to buy more seeds. That doesn't make any sense. You just complicate shit that way. MAking a a artificial disaster more of a reality.

[studio7manga]

You can't OWN genes. What the hell...

And biotec isn't going to be the answer, I'd bet money if anything drastic is done about global warming, it will be GeoEngineering.

[ILoms12]

ANYONE UP? I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO

just moved new area 5a

[starwarsgeek8]

Excellent! Lets enslave all third-world countries by monopolizing in the name of stopping world hunger!

Seriously, don't people see how twisted this is??

[starwarsgeek8]

Umm...

No offense but having seen the evidence against GM companies you JUST NOW came to that conclusion?!

[stratvic]

Useful to whom is the obvious question and at whose expense.

[stratvic]

Binding others and their sporn in perpetuity to contracts without consultation and consent is slavery. If that concept of society "isn't always pretty but it's better than the alternative" I'll take one of the undefined alternatives thanks.

[jotunobsidianeyes]

It is very unfortunate that we cannot go back in time & give the framers our opinion. I'm not being sarcastic there, that is one of short comings of a society: Making decisions for those unborn even generations later. The social contract isn't always pretty but it's better than the alternative. And we do have consultation, we can amend our constitution, we can vote for new delegates or laws even. It's not fool proof by any stretch of the imagination, but again it's better than the alternative.

[jotunobsidianeyes]

There's freedom and then there's impunity. If I don't pay my rent my landlords throw me out. That's their private property right. If I have squatters or intruders on my land, I can have them removed. This can be done by calling the police or pointing a gun at them. I'm not putting either one of those options, but both require force. That doesn't invalidate them. The protection of rights requires force sometimes. Though not necessarily by the government.

[jotunobsidianeyes]

There's direct democracy. Then there's a constitutional democratic republic.

[stratvic]

The concept of a social contract is an insult to any audiences subjected to that terms intelligence. A contract is made by freely acting individuals voluntarily, not enforced without consultation without offer or acceptance based on the dictates of and made sure through the threat of violence should the terms not be accepted.

[stratvic]

Government action is the imbalance of the market through the threat or action of violence.  That is hardly an environment of freedom.