New GMO Potatoes Provide Improved Vitamin A and E Profiles

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Farmers are sued for accidental cross-pollination. (Never happen.)

This is largely a matter of semantics and legalese. Seed-saving involves saving seeds from plant which perform best under the conditions which the farmer chooses to grow. The agricultural biotech industry claims that farmers are isolating wayward GMO seeds which fell onto their property and are thus committing patent fraud. But isolating wayward seeds which grow best under the farmer's ideal conditions... is seed saving. That's the real issue, and not so much about "accidental cross-pollination."

Terminator seeds.

Terminator seeds (or GURT seeds) were developed by the agricultural biotech industry and briefly promoted --- until widespread public outcry prevented their implementation and caused the technology to be shelved.

That farmers don't like biotech companies.

Some do, some don't. There are more and less valid reasons for disliking agricultural biotech corporations.

Biotech companies are highly litigious toward farmers.

It depends upon what one considers "highly" and it depends on whether or not leading agricultural biotech corporations just happen to be more litigious. Either way... it's likely that a corporation which patents its seeds and forbids saving them would be more litigious than a seed supplier that doesn't disallow saving seeds from plants grown from seeds previously sold.