So many questions ...

[snopes]

Comment: Is Monsanto really making terminator crops? Are they genetically
modifying seeds so any plants growing from those seeds produce a second
generation of sterile seeds and is this a plot to control the world's food
supply? Do they really want to patent the pig?

[Singing in the Drizzle]

What I think you are talking about are genetically modified seed that are sterile. All companies that product hybred seed like to do this, because it insures the buyer has to buy new seeds every year. Remember it is realy easy to let some of your plants go to seed and replant the same crop the next year with out buying new seed.

From the little that I have read on the subject of sterile hybred seed. They are created by cross pollination of two different breeds of plants giving you a third type. It is the plant raised from this seed that is sterile.

Since there are many companies producing sterile seeds. I do not think any one person is going to control the worlds food supply. There are also lots of famers that still grow the heirloom seeds. So that we have to old genitic variety encase of disease or to use to make new veriety of the crops.

Yes, genitics can be patent to protect a hybred animal or crop. It is done for the same reason you paten everything else. To protect you investment in creating something new.

[snopes]

Comment: can a australian red bac kspider be crossed with a black widow
spider .
Rumourhas it spiders have caught a ride in marine sea containers to
Australia ( for a holiday no doubt or for retirement ) and they have mated
creating a new spider which can jump further and be more aggressive?

can a human eat glass or steel or iron etc .

was walt disney frozen when dead

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Those aren't questions--they're statements in the form of questions. If they were questions, they'd have question marks at the end.

Seaboe

[geminilee]

Originally Posted by Singing in the Drizzle

What I think you are talking about are genetically modified seed that are sterile. All companies that product hybred seed like to do this, because it insures the buyer has to buy new seeds every year. Remember it is realy easy to let some of your plants go to seed and replant the same crop the next year with out buying new seed.

I had understood it to be in response to widespread fears that GM crops would "take over" and supplant native plants. But I think that they are in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If the plants can reproduce, then opponents will claim that they are going to grow out of control and wreck the environment; if the plants can't reproduce, then the evil companies are just doing it to gouge money out of people.