How to sell ‘dirty seeds’ or ‘addict seeds’
One may argue that the seeds with negative characteristics, as above, will be rejected by the market.
According to RAFI, this is not necessarily so, because the giant seed companies (bubbed as ‘Gene Giants’) will be successful in getting the international seed regulations adjusted to suit the sale of these ‘dirty seds’.
According to RAFI, this will be achieved in two ways. First, the industry will argue that these ‘dirty seeds’ or ‘addict seeds’ will offer an additional level of biosafety for transgenic species, because the seeds, developed due to pollen from transgenic crop, developed due to pollen from transgenic crop, would be sterile and therefore crops/weeds.
