No one is forced to buy seed from the hundred companies who have patented their product.
They can still plant that good old standby my father sold, XL45 by DeKalb seeds. It was a huge success, and millions of bushels of seed were sold to satisfied farmers.
Today, no one wants it, even though they still can get it, and for good reason. Profits.
But, Balding Eagle.... my point is, what if I don’t want for some reason to have to buy seeds from anyone. What if I want to do as my greatgrandfather did and save seeds from my previoous crop? I can’t do that if my crop was cross pollinated with GMO’s.
There are cases are there now where Monsanto has come in and tested a farmer’s saved seeds and sued him for using them because the test shows his seed has Monsanto’s GMO in it.
It may all become moot if more countries follow the lead of the EU and Russia and ban GMO’s from their food chain.
If you can’t sell it, farmers won’t grow it.
My main complaint about them is all this cloak-and-dagger they engage in to keep you from finding out if your food contains any GMO’s or not. Monsanto et. al. fight tooth and nail against any sort of consumer labeling law. That makes me very suspicious on the face of it.
