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Lots of companies in agriculture have disappeared or been bought up or amalgamated. In fact, a fair few larger companies have shared the same fate as well. As I have said, the few remaining small companies involved in seed breeding will not be able to develop GE products are the cost of patenting and then making a safety case will not be small- such regulatory barriers to entry suit multinationals which is why the lobby the EU for such controls in the first place.
You are discussing hugely diverse impacts and effects in your second paragraph. Subsidies, grants and the like should simply never have been imposed.
There are people out there growing these crops with 'less inputs' already.
Actually in your previous reply you said they have already long since gone.
I was pointing out that it is not just technology and the cost of it that is affecting bottom lines.
I just believe that much like those buying the end product that it should be up to the individuals choice if they grow it or not.