[extropy-chat] World map of human ES cell and nuclear transferpolicies.

[Lifespan Pharma/Morris Johnson CTO]

That's where that open-sourcing concept might prove beneficial.
Collaborative GM +Collaborative marketing +Collaborative marketing 
economics +multinational Collaborative Strategic Planning.

Linux is a good model to transfer to GM-Bio.

It might stimulate Coopetition that can end-run Stodgy old highly 
structured monopolies.

Especially since the countries that are GM friendly are sort of the 
wild-west of Patent enforcement, this linux-style
IP would actually be a step up in IP protection from what is already there.

The chem resistant crops part  was simply the first use of GM because it 
was an extension or improvment
to traditional agriculture.  Once the transition to GM-bioproduct 
Pharming truly gets going those roundup-resistant
modifications are going to look like "stone knives and bearskins", to 
quote "captain Janeway from a  Star Trek -Vogager episode"

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. 
Farming is the last bastian of luddite clusterings.
If its any indication let me relate this:
A farmer education program was started here in our province this 
summer.  It was to provide 6 million @18K/participant
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.
already subscribed to it.  I am using it to get my HACCP credentials and 
am simply amazed that there are new signups
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.
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.

Morris Johnson

Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, The Avantguardian wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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