Comment Re:Stopping Science = Stopping Thought. GL,HF (Score 2) 1229
I think you're missing the point here. The issue seems to be that GM food 'invented' by EvilCorp can be used to exploit the vulnerable.
If the crop is fertile, then it can cross-contaminate a non-GM field; the owner of that field may have to pay royalties to EvilCorp. If EvilCorp decides to make the crop infertile to prevent this, then farmers will have to buy seeds from EvilCorp every year, probably at extortionate prices.
It's all very well to bash irrational responses to science and progress, but some of these issues are real and involve the livelihoods of poorer people.