Post 1575038 by TheMysteriousEm@social.tchncs.de
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 (DIR) Post #1574933 by cocoron@sunbeam.city
       2018-08-26T09:16:37Z
       
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       Extremely sceptical about GMOs not because of the crops themselves but because of the legal framework around them. Monsanto (MONSANTO) holds the patent for golden rice and while they currently "allow" people to use it for free, what's to stop them restricting use once economies become reliant? Nestlé did the exact same thing with baby formula and new mothers in poor countries. Patented crops are not good. Are "open source GMOs" a thing?
       
 (DIR) Post #1575038 by TheMysteriousEm@social.tchncs.de
       2018-08-26T11:00:57Z
       
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       @cocoronThe very harsh regulations on GMO makes it much harder for anyone smaller than Bayer to make anything useful. They can even spend the resources to get around the methods.A good resource to follow is academic researchers on the topic, particularly those without strong ties to the bigger corporations.Oh, and of course to work politically to reform patent law.But the biggest obstacle is a set of regulations that only the biggest wallets can navigate.
       
 (DIR) Post #1575052 by ohthehugemanatee@fosstodon.org
       2018-08-26T18:57:31Z
       
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       @cocoronYes, open source genomics is a thing. The human genome is public. So is the rice genome, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization offers free worldwide  access to more than 3000 academic journals through its “Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture” program. The GMO version of the GPL is called BIOS, and was invented by a biotech company to apply to their free-as-in-beer plant genetics alteration tech, transbacter.