Supreme Court hands Monsanto victory over farmers on GMO patents!

[Peter Lemkin]

Your relative, if I read it correctly, was not making an argument [I hope] for any 'good' in terminator seeds - he was only saying that since they only grow one crop and then die, they negate the problem of hybrids. This is not correct on many levels. 1] not all GM seeds are 'terminator seeds'. 2] even that ONE year's crop can put Frankenstein genes and their chemical products into the ecosphere. 3] There are already known hybrids between GM pollen and natural crops. 4] this doesn't address, at all, the issue of Monstanto and other GM companies being allowed to sue the victims of their own perfidy and crimes. I can see NO benefit of terminator genes other than being able for the first time in all of the history of life to have to pay someone for a crop to grow a second+ season. I can see numerous negatives to the practice from both a business [sic] and environmental point of view. What possible good, other than to Monstanto et al. are seeds that grow plants with sterile seeds. For all of history plants by themselves or humans have replanted seeds and the plants have lived on. These are zombie seeds that produce zombie chemicals from their altered genes [chemicals not in nature before!]. They also pollute the fields of those who do not want those seeds and chemicals and effects....and not only that...these poor souls who prefer Natural Methods get dragged into Court and sued out of business for the 'crime' of the wind or some pollinator having brought the Monstanto seeds or pollen via wind or pollinators. The health effects on the environment have already been recorded from these Frankenseeds and their co-pesticides and chemicals that turn off the terminator gene, etc....in the environment, in our foods, in the bodies of animals, plants and humans.....to my mind it is all a negative. Most of the chemicals that are sold WITH the GM seeds [its a package that must be repurchased EVERY year] are carcinogens and worse. I see NO upside at all.....except in Montsanto pockets. If, for example, Montsanto uses it or convinces some farmer[s] to use it, all farmers in the area - in an EVER widening circle are forced to deal with the legal and chemical/biological consequences. It is agricultural and environmental warfare! [economic as well] IMO.