> isn't the primary concern that they make food into controllable IP, locking farmers into a SaaS-like subscription lock in, not allowed to replant their own seeds?
That's a concern (along with IP trolls suing farmers for infringment after cross-pollination and "terminator" features of GM crops's pollen interfering with self-seeding of said cross-pollinated crops), but IME it seems like the primary concern (ie, of most people complaining about it) is the stupid scary-soundingness one. (Which is annoying, because the former is a very real and serious problem, as it exacerbates existing centralization of food production.)
That's a concern (along with IP trolls suing farmers for infringment after cross-pollination and "terminator" features of GM crops's pollen interfering with self-seeding of said cross-pollinated crops), but IME it seems like the primary concern (ie, of most people complaining about it) is the stupid scary-soundingness one. (Which is annoying, because the former is a very real and serious problem, as it exacerbates existing centralization of food production.)