Patents aren't forever. For medicines, they are barely seven years.
Most unique new seed varieties are not GMOs. That's another difficulty in arguing with the anti-GMO crowd; they won't understand that hybrids and GMOs are very different things.
Well said.
Even GMOs have stark differences. Given the variety of natural items that go into a human diet, we’re crunching up all manner of DNA. Transgenic from plant to plant hardly seems like gambling.
Yes I have no problem with most hybrids.
GMO is another story. I work with some leading genetic researchers in the cancer field. they admit they don’t know what a good portion of our DNA does. Nobody knows the DNA of plants and how mixing genes will impact humans.
As for protection of intellectual property. Thats fine protect your seeds. If you allow your plant to impact another property owner then you should lose control over your property and not gain control over theirs.