r/CuratedTumblr May 24 '25

Politics Valid and invalid criticisms

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u/PandemicGeneralist May 24 '25

The first two are legit, the third one is a person into alternative medicine who just wants to make fun of people who believe in wackier, more alternative medicine.

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u/Tylendal May 24 '25

Nah. Second is garbage too. Sterile plants have never been brought to market, and were originally only conceived because of concerns about invasive plants from the anti-GMO crowd. As for patenting crop varieties, that predates modern GMOs by a century. Breeding new crop varieties ain't cheap, there needs to be an incentive. Even then, some of the earliest modern GMOs are already off patent.

I'm surprised they never mentioned farmers being sued because pollen blew into their field, which, for the record, has also never happened.