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tla · 3200 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Misleading War on GMOs: The Food Is Safe. The Rhetoric Is Dangerous.
I did read it, yes. I find that the notion that farmers can no longer choose to keep seed for the next crop -- like they used to for millennia-- to be ridiculous. They can't do that now, because it's now wrong to. Because if they do, the seed has genes they're not allowed to have without a license.
doommaggot · 3199 days ago · link ·
To me it sounds like the issue is with capitalism, not GMOs :-P From a scientific perspective though, you don't want to save the seeds anyway. They are created from two plant strains and as such benefit from hybrid vigor, which means they'll produce more seeds than later generations will. This isn't GMO specific, non-engineered crops also use this same technique.