Biotech Values

[poorgradstudent]

Biowatch:

In regards to my question regarding the salmon spawning, you replied:

"The no-brainer answer is "yes", unless they have a founder stock and the one's they sell are designed to be infertile."

Ok, so let's take that answer at face value. Now if this situation is set up like Monsanto's soybean situation, you're not allowed to carry over from one season to the next or else you're pirating their intellectual property. Is that ok with you?

What if, through some wackiness, your salmon crossbreeds with some GM salmon and the company comes and finds out. Should they have the right to sue you?

>There are plenty of invasive species already, including snakehead fish, starlings, zebra mussels, kudzu, and pine borers. Nobody was fined for importing them. Without a natural predator, they spread.<

I don't understand this line of argument. Because there are other naturally found invasive species then we shouldn't care about the potential impact of creating our own invasive species?

Regardless, my view is that these various scenarios have to be thought through before approval, not after.