alt Hacker NewsYou are perfectly free to keep selling what we've been eating. No one is forcing people to plant the new stuff.
If you make patents illegal, no one will breed new stuff. How does that help?
All that will do is cause people to grow the old stuff, which they still can, even if the patent exists.
Do you get what I mean? Adding a patent does not reduce anything, it only adds a new option.
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IncandescentGas • yesterday at 8:11 PM
> You are perfectly free to keep selling what we've been eating. No one is forcing people to plant the new stuff.
This common sense statement should be true, but is wholly ignorant of the lawsuits farmers deal with from seed suppliers
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> If you make patents illegal, no one will breed new stuff. How does that help?
There would still be public, industry-group and philanthropic research. But yes, probably much less.