i'm also a fan of GM foods but...
i don't like the fact that they sell it sterilised.
you've got the great wheat seed that will grow in poor arable, drought conditions etc. and it won't germinate.
So you have to keep buying it every harvest rather than keepign a portion back and sowing the seeds.
I think it should be like Medicines, where you get X amount of years to make money of your product then anyone can make a generic version, i.e one that does the same as Brand X but germinates too.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:36,
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but if it isn't sterilised, then people will worry about subsequent
generations of the crop doing a Day of the Triffids and killing us all (or just not being as good/productive in the same way that F2 hybrids are nowhere near as good/reliable as F1 hybrids; amateur gardeners are used to buying new F1 seeds every year instead of sowing seeds from last year's crop)
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custard, Thu 21 May 2009, 0:57,
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