Reply #21: Because they NEVER talk about it in terms of what this is really about [View All]

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It's about an end to subsistence.

Do you know what they're modifying these plants to do? It's not to grow bigger tomatoes.

They're trying to modify plants so they don't produce seeds and so that you have to buy some chemical spray to make the plants grow. That way, you have to buy the patented SEED and the patented CHEMICAL to grow the plant.

And you know what happen will happen next? Congress will pass a law which doubles the period of patent protection, like they've done with copyright.

And it's really sick because this is a highly political, very serious issue, and they gave this guy today a LONG segement to talk about it, not only UNCHALLENGED but he was able to frame the issue in terms of health, and not in terms of economics and business plans.

Also, I've never heard NPR ever give the otherside of this story, and I've never heard any America media source ever even describe the issue in the way I've just described it above.