The article is way off - real reason is that there are more large companies looking to maximize profit so growing varieties that are less profitable, well aren't grown because they don't make anywhere near as much money, have disease problems... Not because of patents, which wouldn't affect old varieties.
Problem is that it is very hard for bigger farmers not to use Monsanto's seeds because if their neighbour uses the patented seed and the wind blows some of them onto the farm without the patented seed then Monsanto sues that farmer and he has to pay up or lose everything.
Farmer troubles aside, It would be great to grow a strain of tomato with a thick membrane, firm cucumbers, or oversized kale...how many years would this take to do it the "right way?"
Farmer troubles aside, It would be great to grow a strain of tomato with a thick membrane, firm cucumbers, or oversized kale...how many years would this take to do it the "right way?"
Farmer troubles aside, It would be great to grow a strain of tomato with a thick membrane, firm cucumbers, or oversized kale...how many years would this take to do it the "right way?"
What's the 'right way'? You do realize that you would still end up with the same gene either way. Except with conventional breeding, you end up with a lot of unknown changes.
And for time, it would depend how likely you are to get a mutation to do what you want and the amount of resources you have at hand.
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