From: "Robert Comer" 

> Did you know that an important reason to gen modify food is that one can
> patent it?

That's not the most important reason.

> (This seed you have is ours - if you want to use last years leftovers,
> you've got to buy a new license...)

You gotta take the bad with the good I suppose -- after all, you don't have
to by modified seed...

- Bob Comer



"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
news:oprqpynqlk7q6jhl{at}news.barkto.com...
> Bob,
>
> Did you know that an important reason to gen modify food is that one can
> patent it?
>
> (This seed you have is ours - if you want to use last years leftovers,
> you've got to buy a new license...)
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:13:44 -0400, Robert Comer 
> wrote:
>
> >> Are you for all GM modified foods?
> >
> > I am, the benefits are VERY high while risk is low.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> > "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> > news:3ee9fe5b{at}w3.nls.net...
> > That's politics not reason. The 'activists' are used as a convenient
> > excuse.
> > EU protectionism of French (and other peasant) farmers isn't new or
> > rational.
> >
> > Are you for all GM modified foods?
> >
> > Paul
> > "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote
in message
> > news:3ee9e287{at}w3.nls.net...
> > No, its not just hairbrained green activists, its the EU itself.
> >
> > "The United States, whose farmers are feeling the impact from a ban on
> > genetically modified food by the European Union (search), is working on
a
> > claim filed with the World Trade Organization (search) calling the EU's
> > actions a form of illegal protectionism."
> > One don't file complaints with the WTO about a bunch of whining from
> > idiot
> > greens.
> >
> >
> > "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> > news:3ee9c3bd$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Regardless, it's not the EU, it's 'green' activists. And they probably
> > have
> > > a small point but it's lost in the noise.
> > >
> > > ('These countries' could all feed themselves on non GM food if they
put
> > > their 'minds' to it.)
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > "Tony Ingenoso" 
wrote in message
> > > news:3ee8c063{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > I think they are "safer" than death by
starvation which is
apparently
> > > what's going on because the EU has spooked those countries
> > > > that desperately could use this food.
> > > >
> > > > "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> > > news:3ee8b4f7{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > I think you stretched the point beyond breaking.
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you have total confidence that GM foods are
safe? Not in as
much
> > as
> > > they
> > > > > aren't going to poison you but in their long term
effects in the
> > wild?
> > > Is
> > > > > evolution that predictable? Or is it more about money?
> > > > >
> > > > > But how you can stretch public disquiet in the EU
into 'causes
> > millions
> > > to
> > > > > starve' beggars belief. Even Fox News doesn't spin
it so hard.
> > > > >
> > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > > > "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote in message
> > > > > news:3ee7d294{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,89174,00.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What a bunch of self serving, cold hearted,
manipulative,
> > > protectionist,
> > > > > etc...morons.   Incredible.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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