Plant patents like this have been around since 1930. It's old and established la...

markdown · on Oct 13, 2020

Slavery was legal for thousands of years.

Plant patent laws should be repealed and consigned to the dustbin of history.

pfdietz · on Oct 13, 2020

Plant patents serve an obvious public good. The equate them with slavery is monstrous nonsense, a slap in the face to the victims of slavery.

markdown · on Oct 13, 2020

Don't be silly; I didn't equate the two.

I was pointing out the weakness of their argument. Just because something is old and established doesn't make it good.

pfdietz · on Oct 13, 2020

Plant patents are a positive good. The public benefits from them (and from patents on new genes). The arguments otherwise are ridiculous when examined critically.

markdown · on Oct 14, 2020

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I find the opposite to be true.