The planned disappearance of non-hybrid, open pollinated seeds will now only be a matter of time. Farmer's right to retain the means of growing their own food, i.e. the right to seed will become a folklore of the primitive past. Nor will there be any place for traditional seed that can provide minimal food security in insecure times and difficult environment. Seeds to protect bio-diversity, so patiently conserved and nurtured by farming communities over generations will be doomed to extinction. As I have cautioned in these columns earlier that destruction of species is irreversible.
Extinction is forever.
Not even nature, with all its heating power, can bring back the dead from obliteration. But now the terminator threatens even the open-pollinated seeds. The means of this infection would be via pollen from Terminator altered plants. Given Nature's incredible adaptability and that the technology has never been tested on a large scale the possibility that the Terminator may spread to surrounding crops, or wild related plants in fields must be taken seriously. The gradual spread of sterility in seeding plants would result in a global catastrophe that could eventually wipe out higher life forms, including humans from the planet.