So much paperwork (and the US is a ant before the colossus that is the EU regulatory state), and some really bizarre notions of what counts as GMO, which boils down to - if you do the same thing in a harder way, its not GMO any more
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Replying to @Suddenly_a_Goat @halvorz and
You can take a bacteria and reshuffle its genome to your hearts content, and dump it on fields, but introduce a solitary element from another species and kiss your work goodbye
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Replying to @Suddenly_a_Goat @halvorz and
On the plant side, a lot of the issues is with money. You can get a lot through safety trials (in the Americas), but those are expensive, and if you can't patent it & market it thats beyond any research budget to do
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Replying to @Suddenly_a_Goat @halvorz and
And most of the big funding bodies will only give grants to stuff that will put something in fields, and to do that you have to sell it to a company, who'll only buy what they can patent
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Replying to @Suddenly_a_Goat @halvorz and
If you can tell, I'm still NOT MAD about a certain unnamed company I worked with literally burning years of research _that would benefit farmers_ because they were denied a patent
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Replying to @Suddenly_a_Goat @halvorz and
there's a reason us and canadian agriculture is better than everyone else's
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Replying to @sgodofsk @Suddenly_a_Goat and
It isnt though. The Dutch are best by so much it isnt even close.
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they're little windmills
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