There are no sterile seed technology (Genetic use restriction technology or GURT) sold anywhere in the world yet. Having said that what is so different with such as farmers have been buying new hybrid seeds each and every year for decades.
The zero tolerence regulations for adventitious presense of GM content from the organic industry is a non-starter as such restrictive regulations do not exist for any other crop. It is impossible without absolutely no GM crops being grown. I find the world needs to debate how a group that represent about 2% of the food grown dictate rules for the other 98% of the world food producers. Rediculous. The IFOAM does not advocate any testing for GM content and as far as I know there is no such set limit on what level of GM adventitious presense would revoke organic status. Further I am unaware of any organic certification anywhere being revoked for GM content. This during the past decade of unprecedented growth of both GM crops and organic crops. It is also interesting that GURT crops would eliminate a significant portion of the adventitious “problem” for the organic industry. This seems to be why they scream so loudly about it. It is my opinion the organic industry is very afraid of any technology that will alleviate or eliminate their boogeyman arguments about GM crops and food. After all a significant amount of their marketing is based on pushing fear of other cropping methods.
