Re: Terminator Seeds.....Voices can be heard! (long!)
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- Subject: Re: Terminator Seeds.....Voices can be heard! (long!)
- From: m* l* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:00:34 -0700
> > SAY NO TO TERMINATOR!
> > >>
>I have mixed feelings about this issue.
>There is a lot of good this technology will do, but also a lot of harm.
>The harm will come to those that cannot afford the new seeds that produce
>better crops, those that are poor will get poorer.
>
>the fear that this will leak out into the "wild" is of course unfounded so
>that is not an issue.
I have heard that genetic engineering has been transferred by wind-blown
pollen. I'd call that "founded."
> the third world countries do not like this plain and I can understand why,
>they will not be able to afford to pay for the seed of newer higher yielding
>crops.
Whoa! Do you honestly think that the good people of the world are going to
stand by and let the millions of people in Third World countries starve to
death? Of course not. We'll buy them seed, year after year after year,
paying whatever Monsanto demands to get seeds so that zillions don't
starve. OP varieties will suddenly become terminator varieties. Save the
seeds, plant them, nothing grows. Seed is sterile. Is this the best of
all possible worlds?
>some we will have many grain crops that will be able to grow in salinated
>soils and those plants will be "injected" with the terminator genes. High
tech
>plant engineering is not cheep so that is why the seed producers have worked
>hard to develop this and the get it patented and licensed.
That's great. Why can't they hybridize the seeds so they are reimbursed
for the cost of their research instead of killing off all natural plants?
Hybridization is ample protection for that, IMO.
>
>will it be good for the farmer. Not in the short run, but as more plant
>breeding takes place because those that are willing to pay the high cost of
>doing the work will find that it will pay off if they can keep their product
>from being stolen.
Huh?
Margaret
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