kennyc wrote:Popped up at Huffington Post today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/1 ... 17971.html

My thoughts are that if Monsanto expects the progeny in perpetuity of their genetically modified seeds to be their property that is just daft. Instead if they expect to protect their patent they need to make sure there are no progeny -- e.g. make plants non-fertile or producing non-viable seeds.

Initially developed as a concept by the United States Department of Agriculture and multinational seed companies, Terminator seeds have not been commercialized anywhere in the world due to opposition from farmers, indigenous peoples, NGOs, and some governments. In 2000, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity recommended a de facto moratorium on field-testing and commercial sale of terminator seeds; the moratorium was re-affirmed in 2006. India and Brazil have passed national laws to prohibit the technology.