date:Jan 10, 2013
robbing farmers of the right to save seed. It turned out that hybrids did that long ago, and that Terminator never happened.
I'd assumed that no-one wanted GM. Actually what happened was that Bt cotton was pirated into India and roundup ready soya into Brazil because farmers were so eager to use them.
I'd assumed that GM was dangerous. It turned out that it was safer and more precise than conventional breeding using mutagenesis for example; GM just moves a couple of genes, whereas conventiona