Breaking: Venezuela Bans GMOs and Prohibits Seed Patenting

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7. Uh, guys? Regular hybrid seed also has patent protection!

If Venezuela REALLY banned seed patenting of all kinds, it means almost all the new, non-GM seed created in the past 40 years are off-limits to Venezuelan farmers. Without legally binding protection for their products through patent recognition, even non-GM seed companies won't sell to a country.

It's one thing to propose banning GM crops; it's quite another to take it so far that conventional hybrid crops are also removed from circulation.

Even almost all organic, non-GM farms in the US and Europe use conventional hybrids due to their far superior yields.

Think it was bad when Venezuela ran out of toilet paper and basic necessities a couple years ago? Imagine their farms running out of seed, or being forced to use inferior seed that only yields 2/3 what they used to get per acre.