Revoke the Monsanto Protection Act

[yellowdingo]

Monsanto Protection Act protects biotechs against federal prosecution

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[CBDunkerson]

While there is clearly no good reason to be giving corporations special protections against prosecution I've never understood the genetically modified foods freak out. People make all kinds of ridiculous claims about how eating something will modify THEIR genetics and cause them to grow a third eye... which is, of course, idiotic. Humans do not incorporate gene sequences from their food into their own. If they did we'd have noticed a long time ago. How many people have you seen turn into cows after eating too many hamburgers?

[thejeff]

Yeah, that's all crap. On the other hand, "We'll just modify this plant to produce pesticides. Don't worry they won't hurt you." That I'm not so happy about. I don't trust their testing or their controls.

[Run, Just Run]

the reason people are scared of GMO's is one they are very badly regulated and untested, the second problem is monsanto sues anyone found to have the seeds they didn't sell to in that season, this can be done by farmers harvesting seed or the trucks letting seed be picked up by the wind, in fact they make more money from suing farmers then selling the seed. Oh a third point is they force farmers into debt because Monsanto is insidious into tricking farmers into buying their seed.

[Todd Stewart]

There's a crazy amount of regulation on GMOs versus any other type of crop (more generally speaking, with any kind of biotech that's intended for use on, use in, or consumption by humans). Apparently if we know exactly what we're doing, what we're adding or modifying, that's "not natural" and has to be regulated at insane levels. But randomly crossbreeding and blindly altering the final product, that's perfectly fine to just put out on the market and cross your fingers that it's healthy.

The anti-science crowd is a danger to human progress.

[yellowdingo]

Is it anti Science or is it Anti Deregulation and Anti Unaccountably? If they need protection from prosecution, that is a far greater threat to progress.

[Comrade Anklebiter]

Remember when Comrade Dingo suggested that they were going to patent human genomes and turn us all into slaves and you laughed?

Well, it's not quite that far gone, but, still, Hail Comrade Dingo!

[CBDunkerson]

BTW, turns out the legislation isn't quite as advertised. Basically, it prevents injunctions stopping the planting of crops once the USDA has given approval. Does not protect against "prosecution" for damages at all.