GM is a real “Janus” idea. Two-faced.
How one GM company almost wiped out all plant life on Earth by accident.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18503_how-biotech-company-almost-killed-world-with-booze.html
Not quite as bad, but still awful, is how the courts treat GM products in nature. Since the modified DNA is patented, the courts have ruled that *any* plants that carry that particular modified DNA are the property of the GM company.
Even if those plants are the result of GM pollen upwind of a field of non-GM crops.
This means that all a GM company has to do is plant a single GM crop upwind of thousands of non-GM farms, and after the first season, all subsequent crops, by all those other farmers touched by the pollen, are no longer the farmer’s property.
A great example of this was with a GM test bed in Mexico, whose pollen, within a few years, had “infected” all Mexican crops of that species, corn, in the entire country.
Needless to say, the Mexican government quickly changed *their* patent law, to tell the GM company to go get knotted. But US judges are made of sterner stuff. They don’t care who gets hurt, or how much, as long as precedent is obeyed. Congress would likely agree with the judges.
“Even if those plants are the result of GM pollen upwind of a field of non-GM crops.
This means that all a GM company has to do is plant a single GM crop upwind of thousands of non-GM farms, and after the first season, all subsequent crops, by all those other farmers touched by the pollen, are no longer the farmer’s property.”
Do you have a source for such a statement?