proposed California law to hurt foodies and the poor
In article >, "Jean B." > wrote:
> 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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