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That's where that open-sourcing concept might prove beneficial.<br>
Collaborative GM +Collaborative marketing +Collaborative marketing
economics +multinational Collaborative Strategic Planning.<br>
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Linux is a good model to transfer to GM-Bio.<br>
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It might stimulate Coopetition that can end-run Stodgy old highly
structured monopolies.<br>
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Especially since the countries that are GM friendly are sort of the
wild-west of Patent enforcement, this linux-style<br>
IP would actually be a step up in IP protection from what is already
there.<br>
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The chem resistant crops part was simply the first use of GM because
it was an extension or improvment<br>
to traditional agriculture. Once the transition to GM-bioproduct
Pharming truly gets going those roundup-resistant<br>
modifications are going to look like "stone knives and bearskins", to
quote "captain Janeway from a Star Trek -Vogager episode"<br>
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Let me tell you as a practicing farmer transitioning to Pharmer I look
forward to this industry gaining new prominence as a supplier of
diverse bio-products to enhance every facet of human activity. <br>
Farming is the last bastian of luddite clusterings.<br>
If its any indication let me relate this:<br>
A farmer education program was started here in our province this
summer. It was to provide 6 million @18K/participant<br>
in a 5 year program. We are now 5 months into it and it is be 300%
over budget with 1100 or the 10,000 farmers in Sask.<br>
already subscribed to it. I am using it to get my HACCP credentials
and am simply amazed that there are new signups<br>
every day. I think Agriculture is is about to change more in the next
15 years than it has in the 10,000 years to date.<br>
Combine this with the conversion of 10% of the arable land to
agroforestry over the next 20 years and I think 20 years hence that Ag
2025 and Ag 2005 will compare with sumerian tablets VS the internet.<br>
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Morris Johnson<br>
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Rik van Riel wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, The Avantguardian wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What about pest-resistant crops that reduce
the amount of toxic pesticides used on the crops?
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I've seen more of the opposite - GM crops that are modified
specifically to tolerate a higher level of pesticides and
herbicides, so the producers can spray all the poisons they
want without worrying about the plants.
Almost as evil as patenting an already existing gene, and
then trying to use the courts to forbid self-sustaining
farmers in eg. India from sowing previously harvested seeds
that happen to have the gene in it (and have had said gene
for hundreds of years).
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