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My beef is that the world seed supply will be controlled by a handful of companies, that GMOs would be considered IP, etc.

GMOs should be "open-source" and "patent-free".

I'm not convinced of physical harm, but rather the dangers both to seed diversity and centralized power.

Homeboy says

errc says

I bet if you ask most people, they'd tell you that corn is a vegetable, LOL

Why is that funny? Tomatoes are usually thought of as vegetables, too. It's about how they are used and prepared. The average consumer doesn't concern himself with nitpicky scientific definitions, and really shouldn't need to.

Are you fucking kidding me?

errc says

Are you fucking kidding me?

Dude, what planet do you live on?

Mmmm... I think I'll get me some tomato pie with ice cream on top. Then I'll have a fruit salad with apples, oranges, bananas, and tomatoes. LOLOL.

donjumpsuit says

Are you happy?

No?

Why not?

People like that aren't happy unless everyone ELSE is UNhappy.

thunderlips11 says

GMOs should be "open-source" and "patent-free".

Without patents, there would be no innovation. There would be no reason for anyone to invent anything new. Is there a successful country in the world that does not allow patents? I don't think so.

Homeboy says

Without patents, there would be no innovation.

Really? The Gladius, the Windmill, and the Printing Press were patented? How about 3-field rotation, chain mail, and the ox yoke? Bronze Working? Seed Drills? Obsidian Arrowheads?

http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/is-a-tomato-a-fruit-or-a-vegetable

THomeboy says

errc says

Are you fucking kidding me?

Dude, what planet do you live on?

Earth. Where words have meanings

Corn is a grain. Yet you confuse it as a vegetable.

What will you tell me next, you don't eat bacon because you believe it is unhealthy. And instead you eat soy laden tofu, because you believe it is healthy,,,loolololololol

donjumpsuit says

Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole and kill us all. My opinion is "Bring it on".

Now that brings back the good olde days, just between HS and College ...

http://www.3mbBbFH9fAg

Chris Cornell called the Hadron catastrophe a generation too soon.

errc says

Corn is a grain. Yet you confuse it as a vegetable.

Liar. I never said it's a vegetable. I said it is USED like a vegetable, and only nitpicky little shits like you make a big deal about it.

What will you tell me next, you don't eat bacon because you believe it is unhealthy

On Earth, bacon is not health food. Therefore, I eat it in moderation. I don't know what the case is on YOUR planet, and frankly, don't care.

Honestly, I don't even know why I'm wasting my time arguing with a person who thinks "eating bacon by the pound" is healthy, and isn't aware that people eat tomatoes and corn like vegetables. I'm thinking you possibly have some sort of learning disability.

thunderlips11 says

Really? The Gladius, the Windmill, and the Printing Press were patented? How about 3-field rotation, chain mail, and the ox yoke? Bronze Working? Seed Drills? Obsidian Arrowheads?

How about them? Since patent law has existed, mankind has made more technological progess in the past 700 years than in the entire 200,000 years we've been on the planet. Arrowheads are a kind of stupid example, since native Americans had a tribal society, not a capitalist society. Labor was divided and goods were shared. Of course things were invented before the modern concept of a patent, but ideas were protected in other ways. How are you going to steal the medicine man's knowledge when there's only one medicine man in the tribe? Other societies protected their knowledge by having guilds. You couldn't steal another person's technology because you weren't allowed to practice in that field unless you were a member of the guild.

The idea of rewarding innovation is not new. It has always been an important instrument in advancing as a species. If there were nothing to be gained by innovation, there would be much less of it.

It's worth torturing living beings by breeding them to develop grotesque deformities and letting them live in agony just to make a false political point, because Whole Foods Inc. is gonna make bank as soon as they get the government to put scarlet letters on everything the competition makes and cut them out of the picture.