The reason we have cross pollination is that activists pitched an absolute fit about sterile plants.
There are any number of ways that GMO plants could be made seed sterile and pollen sterile to prevent cross fertilization, and these were some of the first technologies developed.
Many of the anti-GMO activists now believe that “seed companies are selling sterile Terminator seeds!!!” when the truth is that no they aren’t, and if they were most of the terrible dangers they complain about would not exist.
To be fair, lots of people have mutually exclusive beliefs (and they may hit you if you point it out) but the people I just described have mutually exclusive beliefs that are BOTH gibberish. Naturally they consider themselves to be policy experts.
As long as GMOs (note lack of grocer’s apostrophe) enjoy blanket immunity from labeling requirements, it is appropriate, and indeed unavoidable, to talk about them as a blanket entity.
This is not the fault of any anti-GMO scaremongering - it’s the direct result of the immoral actions of GMO producers who have used corrupt governments to receive exemptions from the fair market requirement of informing consumers.
There’s no way for consumers to know anything meaningful about the GMOs real people are encountering in the real, information-scrubbed unfair marketplace, so how can consumers talk about anything other than the abstraction?
And when GMO advocates distort markets and subvert governments how can they expect to be trusted or believed? They’ve treated their potential customers with aggressive contempt, literally saying that people are too stupid to be allowed to have label information that would lead to informed judgement, and they’ve actively engaged in regulatory corruption. Their observable behaviour screams out immoral duplicity, so why would you trust them to be anywhere near food production?
Well, to be equally fair, an ability to deeply and sincerely hold mutually exclusive gibberish beliefs may well be one of the ways our government selects policy experts. It seems like you need to be able to lower taxes and raise spending, speak solemnly about peace while gleefully practicing war, promote hate in the name of a loving savior, etc. etc. etc…
