GMO vs Organic

[Clueless Morgan]

It is true that GMO technology is not the same as selective breeding techniques; it is a faster way to achieve the same, or similar, results.

No, it's a faster way to achieve the same goal. We don't know for certain what the results are. Look, inserting genes that have been previously selected by evolution to be scrapped and putting them back in is hardly a straightforward move. You're intentionally undoing what evolution was doing.

Ah, yes.  Misuse of language on my part; point acknowledged.

It's so cute that GMO vs Organic is a thing...

They're certainly not mutually exclusive, unless you get anti-GM people who don't like GM because it's not natural.  GMO and so-called Organic products seem like natural allies to me.

From what I understand, the Monsanto guys have done something extra... remove the ability for seeds to breed and propagate, thus keeping farmers dependent on buying new seeds from them, for each new year. That's a business decision that has no impact on the quality of the food that is grown from such seeds.

It's a business decision for the farmers as much as it is for the seed company; buying seed every year rather than using saved seed means more consistency/uniformity in the product being farmed year-to-year, better disease resistance, and better yields.

It is also a myth that Monsanto sells so-called "terminator seeds."  It is true that they own the patent on that technology, and they may introduce it to a commercial market in the future, but due to public backlash about it they have not yet commercialized it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999...6/gm.food2