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Re:We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products by mafuy on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:20PM (#12896539)
Cattle is easy to control. It does not pollinate across a fence. If it happens to escape, it is relatively easy to find it. Neither of these points apply to plants. So I think that part your comparison is entirely invalid.
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Re:We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products by sampo on Monday November 07, 2016 @07:33PM (#12896600)
> It does not pollinate across a fence.

There is no wild corn or wild soybean or wild potatoes in the forest or meadow across the fence which the farmer's crop could pollinate.

Also it has never happened that a potato (or any crop plant) escaped into the wild and survived there.

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Re:We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products by partiallypro on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:37PM (#12897690)
Some GMO plants don't produce spores or seeds at all for this very reason, and because Monsanto, etc have an incentive to keep their IP on a tight leech.
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