Agreed. This should rise to the level of a national security event, when our food supply is opening being contaminated with genetically modified biological materials through unintentional cross-pollination and destruction of the non-GMO seed strain.
What many do not realize is that when plant life is genetically modified to change specific attributes within the organism (ie: larger bean size, brighter flower petals, shorter plant size, etc), other aspects of the plants genetic characteristics are adversely impacted. We get no free lunch with Mother Nature. Something else has to give. And oftentimes its the viability of future offspring that suffers the greatest hit. Imagine the plant as a bar chart, and when you raise a bar to create a larger flower, another bar is automatically lowered that represents the amount of photosynthesis-dependent chemicals in the leaves, or when you raise the bar to change the color of the flower, it automatically lowered another bar that represents the chances of the resulting seed to become fertile.
And then there is this – For example, suppose I had two sets of pea plants located away from one another. One set is GMO (Genetically Modified) and the other is heirloom (non-GMO). The peas harvested and replanted from the GMO set may show only 75% viability on the next planting, where the non-GMO remains at near 100% viability. The next season, we replant the two groups again, and the GMO is further reduced to 50% viability (meaning only half the seeds sprouted), whereas, the non-GMO peas remained at 100% viability (all of the seeds again sprouted). Eventually, the GMO strain becomes infertile and dies away, where the non-GMO keeps on ticking like the copper-top bunny.
And this, my friends, is why big companies like this want you to run to them every Spring to go buy fresh seed – because they know that, although the peas might turn out nice and fat, the next year, whatver decides to grow (if the pea is even fertile) might be some shrunken withered plant with a single wrinkled non-fertile pea on it. This guarentees repeat customers and sales for them every year. See how this works?
Funny thing is, its kinda like Mother Nature getting pissed off that someone changed her design around, so she is slowly killing off the aboration so that it doesnt stick around to interact with her original design.
Now, from America’s perpective…this is a VERY dangerous outcome, because we are LOOSING our seed diversity to monster corporations with GMO patents and modified biological materials that are basically crapping all over our future food supply. Something has to give, or we will soon be seeing a real National Security, with starving Americans. Hope that helps underscore the importance of this suggested policy post! . Thanks yall!