[cop359]

>So the first hit is free, but you as a farmer is stuck buying seed for eternity.

The heroin analogy is idiotic. Nothing is stopping the farmers from switching back to conventional crops if they don't find GMO's more profitable then what they were doing before

[throwaway64]

actually there is, because when traditional crops are wholesale abandoned, the seed stock, and unique local climate adapted varieties disappear forever, leaving them dependent on GMO corps to get any kind of return at all.

This problem has already occurred in most western vegetable growing.[1] Locally adapted varieties and varieties with certain commercially undesirable characteristics are lost forever, this has a massive negative impact on biodiversity, and thus food supply security.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_plant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture