Hybrids are nice, are disease resistant, give good yields, etc...., but keep you on the dole for new seeds every year. For the last 5 yrs I have been growing heirlooms and a few exotics, and always harvest the seeds for the following year. I grow some hybrids too, but not many. Heirlooms take extra work, but once you get the soil prepped well, and tend to their basic needs (water, pest control, feeding, weeding) they really pay off.
We are not talking about hybrids here. Hybrids are when you take two varieties and allow them to cross pollinate naturally getting a hybrid. It is like taking a Herford cow and breeding her to an Angus bull to get a black-whiteface calf.
What we are dealing with here is that Monsanto has gone into the DNA of these seeds and spliced in genes from other plants, animals, bacteria and who knows what to create genetic mutations. These new genetic mutations may carry special proteins that kill corn insects so that they dont need to spray, but they also kill honeybees that gather pollen. We are talking about some serious stuff here that if allowed to get into Monsantos control will violate all the anti trust laws and monopoly laws on the books. Waxman doesnt care about that, it is all about control.