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Sounds like a bunch of boogey man talk to me. None of what you have said has anything to do with the actual practice of genetic modification. It's solely unfounded paranoia. Not a single one of those has ANY relation to biotech companies other than the fact they are companies.

You're first paragraph was also full of falsehoods.

>> have no incentive to make sure they are safe on the long run since corporations almost never pay anything for their mistakes

Money and criminal prosecution, those are some good incentives. Also, corporations are constantly being sued. Some don't correct their mistakes because the people suing aren't interested in the global welfare either their interested in money so they settle. Also, I keep seeing the "they said that it would never spread" idea, I never recall any invested proponent say that there was 100% containment. Not once.

Also it is fairly easy though to contain, most of the crops that are modified have very high nutritional demands, they need regular watering, regular nitrates and minerals, near perfect soil. I take it, from the looks of the comments, there are practically no HN community members from a farming background. Most of these plants will die without farmers or being in a field prepared by farmers. That's why weeds are such a problem for farmers, they outcompete their very needy crops. The only real exception I can think of (out of the modified crops) that can thrive on its own is potatoes, the rest of them are very needy and don't do well in the wild. Even with potatoes though they spread best by spuds, the seeds are tiny and die easy. But that's why the others were the first targets for modification, to resist the chemicals required to suppress competition.




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