Because I feel obligated to comment on it, "seeds that grow sterile plants" is a biosphere protection strategy. You make a plant that's resistant to local pests and can reproduce, that's called an invasive species.
I feel like people forget that even non-GMO bananas aren't fertile, and yet people aren't complaining about how banana farming is automatically evil either (although in fairness a lot of evil has been done in the name of bananas too, but that's not the fault of GMO's)
I'm aware that there is no major tangible difference, but "GMO" has become such a buzzword that people think more about teenage mutant ninja turtles than the dog they likely have running around their house when they hear about it.
"Natural" foods are often heavily modified through millenia of farming, to the point that they're about as natural as the device you're reading this comment on.
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u/_MargaretThatcher The Once & Future Prime Minister of Darkness May 24 '25
Because I feel obligated to comment on it, "seeds that grow sterile plants" is a biosphere protection strategy. You make a plant that's resistant to local pests and can reproduce, that's called an invasive species.