[dbcurtis]

> * GMO that don't produce viable seeds so I have to buy seeds from you every season.

OK, but unstable hybrids predate GMO by decades. Omitting the last, stabilizing cross for maize seeds has been a thing for, what, 75 years? at least.

[SamBam]

My understanding is that there is a difference. Many hybrids in nature are sterile. What GMO companies like Monsanto do, however, is

a. Artificially make "terminator seeds"[1] that would naturally be fertile but have been made deliberately sterile, and

b. Where seeds don't have that technology, rely on contracts instead that forbid farmers from saving seeds for next year.[2]

1. http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/impact.html#terminat...

2. https://www.agweek.com/opinion/columns/4390497-what-does-tec...