Doug Freyburger wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>> Keep in mind that this has all come about because a significant number
>> of people do not WANT GMO foods in the first place. The big
>> conglomerates just don't want to spend the money to accommodate them
>> or lose a portion of the market share by not doing so. They don't
>> have to change a thing of they don't want to. They're just don't want
>> to give up market share to smaller farmers who do cater the non-GMO
>> crowd.
>
> It's the organic thing over again. Organic products are more expensive.
> Some who want them are willing to pay more. To the extent that GMO
> products cost less the price difference will matter. I don't know if
> the productivity of GMO crops is high enough to make often price
> difference to matter. Eventually they will be for the same reason the
> "green revolution" happened.
>
> My current objection to GMO products is the corporate tactics of the
> companies sueing farmers for keeping some of their seed for the next
> year as has been done since the invention of argiculture.

How about suing farmers when the GMO material drifts into their
fields?

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Jean B.