My only criticism is that it allows corporations to copyright crop strains and penalize farmers for growing from their own crop without paying. It terms of production, nutrition and getting resources to struggling populations, GMOs are an absolute win.
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
Many of them stem from the IP laws you mentioned. American IP law basically makes it so that the companies have absolute control over all studies done on their "product" so independent studies on GMOs are functionally non existent. When the parameters of a study and who can conduct them are determined by the corporation it is by definition no longer independent.
Also through lobbying regulation of said products are also largely written by the corps themselves through "regulatory capture" which is a euphemism for legal corruption.
And if you listen to people like the CEO of Monsanto from a few years ago their stated goal was to eventually control the entire global food supply.
