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[CouldNotCareLes]

@myndy86 - K ... thx.

Les

[myndy86]

@CouldNotCareLes From the studies, those varieties of Bt cotton and Bt tobacco that actually expressed cry proteins at the levels they were supposed to(the trait they were developed for) were almost always sterile.

[CouldNotCareLes]

@myndy86 - Gosh ... non commercial crops I guess.

All I know about is corn, soy, canola, cotton, beets, alfalfa ... commercial ag crops.

What crop "almost always produce sterile offspring" ? ? ?

Les

[CouldNotCareLes]

@myndy86 - there you go ... you are correct with the 144 .. I completely agree.

Thank you for clarifying that for the readers of this thread.

Sincerely

Les

[CouldNotCareLes]

@myndy86 - said, "(hybrid offspring aren't always sterile and can be planted). "

Hybrid offspring aren't sterile, grain spilled last fall will sprout and grow in the fields planted to soybean next spring. Since it is RR corn, we'll have to spray something else in the RR soy to kill it (Poast does it for a coule bucks per acre.)

It's nothing new ... it's been done before.

You go ahead and plant your feed corn kernels as seed.

I need to make money or I'll go out of business.

Les

[myndy86]

@CouldNotCareLes You said "NO SEED HAS EVER BEEN DEVELOPED OR MARKETED TO PRODUCE STERILE OFFSPRING." Whether they were purposely developed to be sterile or not doesn't matter, the studies suggest that there are some varieties of GM crops that when the crop expresses the the trait they were developed for, they almost always produce sterile offspring.

[myndy86]

@CouldNotCareLes You said "they investigated 144 cases and 12 made it to court." They investigated much more than 144 cases, they filed 144 lawsuits(check the records), the rest of the thousands of cases settled without a lawsuit,"144 lawsuits filed since 1997 in the United States, as of April 2010.""To date, only 9 cases have gone through full trial." (from Monsanto website), 9 went the full trial, but there are court records for over a hundred cases, like I said.

[myndy86]

@CouldNotCareLes If farmers want to buy seed every year that is their choice(hybrid offspring aren't always sterile and can be planted). Technology? It uses the same bacteria, etc. that you already admitted has existed for thousands of years! Native American corn was developed over many generations and was time consuming to create, etc. all of the same complaints made by Monsanto, etc. could have been made by the Native Americans, it's ridiculous not to allow seed saving.

[CouldNotCareLes]

@myndy86 - The reason farmers purchase corn seed every year is that field corn is hybrid. Farmers have willingly been purchasing seed corn since hybrids were developed int he 1930s.

There has never been a patent infringement case involving corn.

In soy and canola:

It's not the saving of the seed that is the crime, it is the taking advangtage of the technology.

The damning evidence in the cases was the record of the purchase of Roundup.

Les

[myndy86]

@CouldNotCareLes You said "If your competition was stealing from a supplier, wouldn't you be concerned?" Planting saved seeds shouldn't be considered stealing. We have been doing that since the origin of farming. We do not have to buy our corn every year from the Native Americans who bred corn to what it is today. People initially purchased corn from those Native Americans and then planted the saved seed. Imagine those Native Americans saying you can't plant saved seed LOL!