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Originally Posted by splck
Farmers have to purchase GE seeds every year rather than keeping enough from this years crop for re-seeding. Do you actually think a third world farmer can afford these seeds every year? It'll be a cold day in hell when the GE seed companies give there seeds away or allow re-seeding by farmers, rich or poor.
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I realize there is an expense to the seeds - there is also an unbearable expense to increased fertilzer and pesticides and irrigation that the poor agricultural areas of the world desperately need (not to mention the potential damage to the environment that heavy pesticide use in already poor soils causes).
I'm all for trying something new rather than sticking with a status quo that is so obviously not working and results in subsistence farmers starving to death from the Caribean to Africa to Asia.