| the GMO folks don't care and have the courts and laws
| stacked against the small gardener or the organic farmer.
|

I first heard about this in a PBS documentary. I think it
was this one, which I linked earlier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%2C_Inc.

Prior to that I had little idea of what was going on.


the low cost approach for annuals used to be that you
could save your seeds from year to year and know that
there was no problem. now for annuals to ensure non-GMO
seeds i'd have to source and buy them each time i plant
or risk contamination


Corn farmers who saved their own seed were
interviewed in that documentary and said they
were not only risking an infected crop, but that
Monsanto was actually threatening a patent lawsuit
if the farmers kept using their own seed. The logic
was that their fields were probably already infected
and therefore the farmers should be paying for
Roundup Ready seed. Or to put it another way, since
Monsanto GMO pollen was spreading on the wind,
Monsanto figured it was reasonable to say that
corn farmers in the US could no longer save their
own seed legally!

It's hard to believe things could come to that, but
I suppose it's not really a legal issue. Rather, Monsanto
probably considers it a marketing expense, easily
able to drag out mickey mouse lawsuits until the
farmers either go broke or give in. Whether or not they
actually have a legal case apparently doesn't come
into it.