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To: count-your-change

You can’t do that if the modified seed is deliberately sabotaged to prevent this.


11 posted on 04/25/2008 8:30:24 PM PDT by ROTB (Our Constitution [is] for a [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate [for] any other. -John Adams)
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To: ROTB

You are perhaps thinking of a “terminator” gene that prevents seed from reproducing. Monsanto produced seed with such a gene but never used it. The anti GM crowd said GM seed would ‘escape’ to the wild and contaminate the gene pool. Then they turned around and said seed producers were making seed that ripped off the poor because it didn’t save well for a new crop.
No sabotage, rather seed companies gave farmers high quality seed that would germinate dependably year after year.
There is no conspiracy to sabotage anything.


14 posted on 04/25/2008 8:57:37 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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