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  • will just make food production be in the hands of few big companies.

    The patent covers both the plants obtained from targeted mutagenesis (NGT) and from random mutagenesis (conventional breeding).

    This is exactly what I meant by you need a strong legal framework.

    This is the absolutly fucked part about monsanto. Them sueing people about seed blowing over fields and sprouting somewhere else. Or patenting seeds of plants found in the wild. How can that be legal :D

    But again, this is a political problem not a GMO problem

    compared to ancient wheat varieties like einkorn, emmer, khorasan, etc. Those do not need extra input, they can grow in poor soils and conditions, they have more minerals, vitamins and protein, they are easier to digest, they taste better.

    But GMOs are the solution here, not the problem

    We don’t have to breed desirable traits through decades. We can produce them in a couple of years in a lab. And way more specific compared to selective breeding.