Reply #2: and now they're being engineered to be sterile by Monsanto

[dusmcj]

because without those cocksuckers, life itself would be impossible.

I assume you're plugged into the situation in Iraq and elsewhere in the developing world (including India where farmers are committing suicide because of it) where shiteating American corporations like Monsanto are selling GM seedstock to the local farmers which can't be used to plant new crops because it's sterile. One question is, what happens when pollination takes place and genetic material from the sterile plants is mated to that from fertile plants. Are the results fertile or infertile, and is this material spreading into the uncontrolled gene pool for each species ?

This is of course having an extinction effect on small local farmers (presumably desired since across the globe they're being hustled into slums to serve as human resources for low-wage labor) since they can't afford to buy new seed every year, and since industrial agriculture underbids them on crop prices.

It's particularly ironic for Iraq insofar as it's the place (you know, that fertile valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates) where grain farming first started, and where the grain strains have been lovingly and carefully maintained for all of recorded human history. But we knew that shiteating American businessmen didn't care much for that sort of thing.