Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:
> In article >, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> under tort law, that amounts to trespassing and is actionable

Wouldn't it be the farmers whose fields GMO products have strayed
into who could sue then?

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Jean B.