California Prop 37 (GMO FOOD labeling)

[John Galt]

[Boris Johnson]

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[wormwood]

[Lobster]

Pretending this is going to hurt farmers is hilarious. Compared to what, the axe hanging over their head constantly because Monsanto owns the patent to the food they grow, and they sign a contract specifying they are not allowed to reuse the seed? This is what is worrying to me. Seed sellers have been spreading and hybridizing plants for thousands of years, and that's how higher yields and more resistant evolutions came about. Farmers had always traded, sold, and exchanged variants. Now Monsanto is basically saying they own every single seed their strains will ever produce, strains that push out and eliminate others. And when that happens they can sue the poor unsuspecting bastard who had the bad luck to have his crop contaminated by their crap. Monsanto has entire teams dedicated to "investigating" crops to determine whether their patents are being infringed. The cost to farmers is gigantic, unless they are enormous and subsidized by the government, in which case the cost is to tax payers.
And they use the excuse of R&D to justify it of course. Nevermind that they bought out every other major seed seller in the world and have a monopoly, and are trying to construct patent ownership of the building blocks of our entire frigging food chain. They're a threat to every country's sovereignty and their food supply's self-sustainability.

[Professor]

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[Professor]

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Any product that has to take the fifth to sell it's self is a problem. Regardless of whether it's an actual problem or not.

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