So there’s this italian (self called?) libertarian, who started a movement (Movimento Libertario), who’s really promoting GMOs like they’re ok with the libertarian assumptions.
What’s your opinion about libertarianism and GMOs? should they be accepted in a libertarian system? what you think would have been Mises/Hayek/etc opinion about this?
Why the heck would GMOs not be allowed? I’m sure regulatory companies would pick up on them and if the public deems them bad would “require” labeling.
I’m against GMO’s, but to each his own.
I’m not against genetic modification in principle, but I am against intellectual property and subsidies… I don’t think GMOs would be associated with some of the problems they are if it weren’t for those statist interventions in the marketplace.
It is normally fairly innocuous. To make the crops more resilient etc. If Monsanto didn’t hold the patents it did and didn’t have the govt support it does, would it be a problem?
The question in a libertarian society is never “should they be accepted?” The word accepted implies an omnipotent entity to accept it. A better question is, how would this turn out differently in a libertarian society? The answer to that is usually whatever best pleases the market. If GMO’s were free to competition I guarantee you people could find some people they’d rather do business with than Monsanto.