alt Hacker NewsGlad I live where growing this unnecessary genetically engineered shit is illegal. Patents on food shouldn't exist.
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Hammershaft • today at 4:05 AM
What makes this 'shit' for you compared to the fruits we've conventionally engineered into unnatural forms via selective breeding?
Plant patents predate GMOs. If you cross-pollinate or graft into a new cultivar, you can patent it.
Here's a climbing rose patent from 1930: https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP1P/en