Sen Ruderman, where is the proof

[OpenD]

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Originally posted by punaticbychoice

Permie, Rob:
Good conversation you two. Need more like it.
The issues that matter are:
1) Seeds that must purchased each year since GMO methods can make it non-reproducible.

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Sorry, this is one of the Big Lies being spread by the anti-GMO advocates. There is no seed anywhere... none... which is non-reproducible due to GMO technology. Where GMO saved seeds are non-reproducible it is entirely due to being F1 hybrids, the same as the non-GMO F1 hybrid corn that American farmers have been growing since the 1930s... and buying fresh seed for each year.

The UH Rainbow Papaya falls into this category, but it was hybridized from the first GMO papaya, the UH SunUp, and that does breed true from saved seeds.

Also notice that the lawsuit around GMO soybeans which recently concluded in Indiana, the farmer (who lost) was not an innocent victim of crossfield contamination, as some claimed, but in fact he deliberately planted seed that he knew was part GMO stock, then sprayed the young plants heavily with weed killer so that only the GMO plants were left alive, then he harvested their seeds and planted them again and again for nearly a decade, in a deliberate strategy to bypass the patent and thereby save the licensing fees. Theft, in other words.