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Originally Posted by momoese
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Yes, the plants were contaminated as they have been elsewhere.
The issue is that in most cases the economic loss is a fallacy because either (1) the farmer was going to buy and plant new seed anyway, or (2) the farmer could buy new high quality non-GMO seed inexpensively but instead expends a greater amount of cost and labor harvesting their own seed.
ALSO, I believe you know that the fertilization of corn, grain, or whatever by pollen from a Monsanto strain or any other strain does not change the nature of the harvested food? It only changes the genetics of plants grown from seed of that crop.
So for example, we can have an organic, non-GMO grain plantation which is cross pollinated with some pollen from a non-organic GMO source. That "contaminated" crop is still considered organic and non-GMO. However, if you were to let some of those grains mature, harvest the seed, and plant them, then the crop it produces is definitely a GMO product. Ironically, if it were grown certified organic, it would be considered a certified organic GMO crop.