One of the tiring rants of the participants in the marketing scheme euphemistically called "organic" is their self proclaimed oppression for having their very special products "contaminated" with GMO pollen. For the past few years there has been an analogous legal situation in commercial horticulture in California dealing with so-called pollen contamination. See who you side with: What if I decide to commercially grow seedless mandarins, sometimes sold in the U.S. under the trademark name Cuties? Should I be able to demand that all my neighbors within a certain distance of my citrus orchard must now remove all their pollen producing citrus plants in order to prevent pollination of my mandarins, all because I want to profit from growing higher value seedless citrus fruit? What about the bee keepers? In the past five years, seedless mandarin farmers in California have threatened legal action against bee keepers over the "trespass" of bees pollinating their mandarin orchards. http://nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/… By organic farming logic, the mandarin growers must be correct when they argue that bee keepers hurt farmers. I don't agree. My understanding is that the arbitrary USDA rules defining "organic" recently changed yet again late last year, this time to reflect the reality of wind transported pollen in agriculture, just as the standards were recently lowered for "organic" meat and dairy products in most of California to accommodate our recent drought. In reality, in both of these examples, the end consumer products never changed at all in any meaningful way. And too bad for the seedless mandarin growers who can't redefine the word "seedless" to fit their needs when those malicious trespassing bees show up. Nathan At 07:38 AM 11/14/2014, you wrote: > If a company can cross genes so unrelated, why couldn't they have > made them pollen sterile? That would solve two problems. One to > prevent contamination of organic growers crops and two to prevent > seed formation, which they don't allow anyway due to the utility > patents. Organic seed growers are required to have their crops > tested yearly for the presence of GMOs, out of pocket. > >-Travis