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I'm not really sure if it applies to this case, but the worse thing with GMO is that when you start using them, you are not free anymore. Like using a SaaS software.

Usually you can use your own seeds from your production for your next batch. But GMO plants are supposed to produce sterile seeds that you can't reuse. And in fact you wouldn't even be allowed to, as it is the intellectual property of the chemical company producer.

So, farmers will have to buy and depend on a company for the seeds that they have to use at every season...




> Usually you can use your own seeds from your production for your next batch.

I'm sorry, that is simply not true. Yes, there are so-called "heirloom" varieties that come true from seed, but commercial farming in the United States has been relying on hybrid seed for well over a hundred years now, and hybrids in general do not come true from seed.

Seed production is a highly specialized form of farming.

No large-scale farmer saves seed for replanting.


To be fair to the GMO's, it's not that they try to create sterile plants, it's that much of their benefit comes from hybrid vigor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis




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