[mountainlion]

There is also a story about a pig farmer that had to kill maybe somewhere around 1000 pigs that EPA? said were Feral. Obama has generated so much distrust against government that these stories sure seem true and are not easily proved/disproved by an average person on the Internet. GM corn has been said to be traced to tacos and food in Mexico even. Corn can cross pollinate can't it. There was a story about “scientists” had detected ground bacteria in the air at 10,000 feet so pollen could theoretically travel around the world.

[Mr. Lucky]

Corn can cross pollinate, but natural cross pollination is too random to produce the result that Monsanto detractors claim.

Figure (solely for the sake of this calculation, so make up any odds you want) the odds of pollen from the tassels in one field landing on the silk of a corn plant in another field.

There is one silk per kernel, about 150,000 kernels per pound of corn, 56 pounds of corn per acre, the average corn yield in the US is something in the range of 150 bushels per acre and in my part of the country the average corn field is maybe 80 acres.

It is not possible for all of the kernels in one field to have been pollinated by pollen from the tassels in a neighboring or more distant field.

When seed corn is raised, the tassels of the plants sought to be pollinated are removed (or otherwise made not to produce pollen) and the pollen from the variety the corn is to be crossed with is artificially dusted onto the silk. It's a labor intensive, expensive proposition.