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Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds (www.youtube.com)
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Veritasium video about Monsanto.

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (10 children)

There’s nothing wrong with genetically modifying foods. The problem is the exploitative legal contracts that they come with.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I don't think that it's unreasonable to expect to recoup the millions you spent on R&D for developing a new crop.

    Yes, the length of ownership should be much shorter, but until the world governments collapse, technological advancements cost money and resources.

    If you remove the ability to recoup R&D costs before addressing the need for private r&d at all, you're going to stifle innovation.

    This isn't an endorsement for the current system, but these processes will continue to exist until the current system is replaced.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Of r&d came from any sort of university program or study at the facilities by any graduate or undergrads we already paid for the r&d more than likely it’s like when the government sold means and military vehicles vans gear to local cops we already paid once for it the first time and we are getting charged again

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can argue that until you're blue in the face and it won't mean shit.

    While the system of government these drugs/crops are developed under is capitalist, we're stuck with the same shit.

    This is an instance of "don't hate the player, hate the game."

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I will hate the game and the player, thank you very much. Even under this system, other choices could have been made that are neither illegal or financially nonviable, so Monsanto is very much responsible for the choices they did make. They're not victims of the systems, they're gleefully pursuing everything the system lets them get away with.

    Of course, if you want things to change, it is indeed changes to law and government incentives that need to be pursued. But in order for that to happen, you need enough people to get upset about the current state of things, and for that you need concrete examples. And it doesn't get more concrete than this.

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