SmartSeeds said:Um, about GMO seeds not being available to the home gardener, they're certainly available to me and I go to great lengths not to buy or sell them. There are only 2 or 3 strains of non GMO sweet corn available.
If you believe that, then I strongly suspect that you don't know the difference between a hybrid & a GMO.
While I'm not going to delve into the pros/cons, moral objections & controversy surrounding this new technology, there is one particular matter I would like to clear up for gardeners here: there are no GMO home vegetable seeds available now & there never have been.
GMO seeds are highly regulated. Farmers must sign agreements with the seed company & follow strict EPA regulations when planting GMO crops. It's a violation of the EPA's requirements to provide any genetically engineered seed to non-commercial growers.
The fact remains (even without EPA regulations), a seed company would never sell GMO seeds to home gardeners for use in their gardens for the simple reason that the unique genes inserted into the GMO cultivars would then be out of the control of the seed company & the value of the exclusive GMO cultivars would be lost to the company.
http://geneticliteracyproject....
