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@Shufei For sure: organic is a melange of good and bad concepts. Many of the good concepts have gone mainstream, like no-till, cover cropping etc.
On the subject of gene/variety patents, I wholly agree those are wrong. But those have actually nothing to do with GE: you can patent a gene variant you discovered in a landrace and bred in. You can patent any new variety, whether genes are new or not. GE is a breeding method, patenting is a monopoly method. Organic permits patents.