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> This is 100% false. Random genetic change happens often across the billions of seeds planted every year.

Yet in all the billions of mice born every year, not one was born luminescent [1]. Peddle your lies somewhere else.

> There is a lot of value to seed companies in not having to worry about that.

Yet many companies vertically integrate, and get a competitive edge. You think soil and weather diversity is an unassailable moat?

> That is unrelated to GMO.

I explicitly explained how it is related to GMO.

> This is a competitive disadvantage. A seed company doesn't make the best seed for all situations

Can still buy from other seed companies, same as any other farmer. But they get a discount on their own seeds, unlike other farmers.

> Has nothing to do with GMO.

I explained how GMO enables it.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/02/glowing-mice-sugge...



> Yet in all the billions of mice born every year, not one was born luminescent

That is random chance. There is no reason to think it won't happen next year. A statistician can calculate the odds - but remember that the odds are the same for every other random mutation - yet many of them happen. (many many more will not)




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