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[–] Narow_Foe_Minsk 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

GMO crops are deliberately engineered to be sterile, that's not a falsity. Farmers that use GMO crops have to buy new seeds from producers every planting season. If those plants you got from the gardening store seeded, then they weren't GMO.

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[–] Gringojones 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

What you are saying is false.

Genetic use restriction technology, AKA terminator seeds, is not GMO-wide. It's mainly used on seeds for farmers because they are the largest buyers. The plants in the store tend to come from companies that have their own seed stock. From plants that they propagate themselves. Which means that their seeds need to be viable each and every generation. People who buy started plants don't tend to be people who harvest seeds so there is no economical reason to use terminator style plants.

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[–] SpeshulSnowflaek ago 

+1 on this. Another way to say it is that both @Computergeek01 and @Narrow_Foe_Minsk acre correct depending on the specific situation. Lots of tomatoes, apples, peaches & peppers that you get at the grocery store are indeed sterile either by design or because they're hybrids, meaning that they're either sterile like mules or not true to the tree. Onions & garlic aren't like that -- they're so prolific (and cheap) that it's not worth it to "lock" them genetically, which is why you can just drop one in the ground and grow more.

Seeds though, in large quantity? Big issue there because it's 100% true that Monsanto & other plant developers will lock their plant's reproductive ability. That's why in the US there are three types of patents: Utility, Design, and Plant. The last one, created in 1930 by the Plant Patent Act, was first granted in 1930 to (((Henry Bosenberg))) for a climbing rose, and survives to this day as a staunch protector of Big Agra and a way for the government to get into your backyard.

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[–] moodle_pooth ago 

I am 100% against GMOs and this is false. This rumor is because of one single type of gene they added to corn called the suicide gene. Just because something is GMO doesn't mean it's sterile.