I’m not a native English speaker but that sounds like it’s talking about the potential harms of such terminator seeds and not saying they’re in the market as of now.
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choccymalk@piefed.social 4 days ago
Unfortunately terminator seeds very much are a thing North America.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That entire page says “this would be a bad thing to exist”. But it doesn’t. There are no commercial terminator seeds.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Well, it says “this would be a bad thing to sell,” my read is that it exists and Monsanto owns the IP.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I’d say “that’s the point” if this was put out by modern media…both sides are doing this to build engagement and support. That is, writing about something, but hiding the fact that it’s nothing. They take a small fact that on its own is true…but is really quite unimportant to the larger question. They then build up on that one small fact and make it out to be a smoking gun.
They may even leave out completely relevant facts. Like in this article it says “Monsanto pledged to not commercialize the seed,” but doesn’t mention the UN COP8 moratorium on them.
But the other thing is…op posted this from a college website, possibly because they think it’s an academic paper…but it’s not. It’s a summary of case studies in from their CONS200 “Foundations of conservation” program.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Fortunately what you linked says nothing of the sort.