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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.