What happens if bees cross pollinate?
Couldn’t other wheat become half-Monsanto in just one season?
I’m not convinced they really thought this out as well as they should have.
In the case of cross pollination, Momsanto sues the farmers who aren’t paying them or opt right infringement. The Monsanto lawyers rapidly and aggressively bankrupt the unwitting victims. Completely crush them.
That’s Monsanto.
Studies have also shown that genes can jump across species. If the resistant genes get into the weed population, it could be problematic.
What I am more concerned about is that the company that makes a weedkiller is the same company the makes weedkiller resistant crop seeds. This is not engineering to improve the seeds/plants. It is engineering to make the farmer dependent on one company for viable crops. Not a good idea.
Wheat is wind pollinated, not by insects.
I am in the seed business, don’t like/trust Monsanto or Syngenta because of the way they do business.
GMO wheat makes no sense except to make it possible to “patent” life so they own all the species and you cannot save seed for replanting.
PVPA seed allows saving seed for replanting. And PVPA protection expires after 20 years.
Patented Lifeforms are forever. A stupid law that recognizes this.
I wouldn’t worry that much about genetically modified wheat making us sick.
The non-genetically-modified strains in common use are already toxic, due to the introduction of genetic material from non-food grasses through perfectly ordinary cross-breeding and hybridization.
I’m surprised Monsanto’s lawyers haven’t sued this farmer for using their patented mutant gene grass . . . wait for it . . .
The bees die. And don't go trying to breed a hardier, Monsanto-proof bee or the government will come in and kill them all without a warrant.