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    HELP I ACCIDENTALLY ATE PROPRIETARY FOOD (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Well, as far as I know, the open source seeds are not that great. It is not commercially viaible to switch your agriculture business to them. Maybe only a tiny plot for marketing campaigns like the "open source bread" some bakeries want to sell.

    I'd love to see some billionaire hire a bunch of plant biologist to develop modern, high performing, commercially viable seeds and open source them instead of milking the cashcow.

    The opensource seeds project does not reject gen tech per se. but since they don't have that kind of money, all the seeds they develop are made through old school breeding of outdated seeds that are not commercially licensed.

    But I think the idea is not only very important but also really interesting.