To: ROTB
"Translation: Biotech crops have the potential to yield yearly income to Biotech stockholders, since farmers MUST buy seed yearly." If the yield increase is enough to pay the extra to the Biotech company with yield to spare, it would be worth it. If that's NOT true, nobody would buy the stuff in the first place. The laws of economics still work, even for biotech.
3 posted on
04/25/2008 6:10:22 PM PDT by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel-NRA)
To: Wonder Warthog
No technology comes completely for free. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to do research and find a breakthrough. Over the long run, the cost savings from that breakthrough will justify the initial expenses. No one questions the positive impact of the computer and microwave oven to urban life; biotechnology offers similar promise to agriculture.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
7 posted on
04/25/2008 7:41:43 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Wonder Warthog
True. The fear might be then that the originals would get lost, or killed off by the modified stuff.
Lost? Maybe. Killed off? I’m not a geneticist.
12 posted on
04/25/2008 8:31:33 PM PDT by
ROTB
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