GeneticModification

OK, I'm European, right. So of course I think it's dangerously under-tested :-) But, you know, if you can convince me that I'm wrong ...

• A good summary of the case against : http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/fleming2.htm

• More leakages from GM into non-GM. Potential for pharmed drugs to get into food crops : http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=ns99994709

• Percy Schmeiser case : A farmer who'd crops were infected by modified genes was fined because he reused his own seed containing the modification. Not wanting or seeking the modification was no defence.

: http://www.natureinstitute.org/ic/ic11/gmcrops.html, http://radio.weblogs.com/0100495/2004/08/06.html

: I wonder what would happen if nature had spontaneously created the modification by mutation? Is this like other patents?

: Schmeiser's comment : http://www.percyschmeiser.com/decisioncomments.htm

See also :

• BioTech

• IndexesBecomePolicyTargets

• PropertyModules / MarketsAreEmbedded for more discussion on what things are property

• PatentsSuck