Dave Murphy, Executive Director of Food Democracy Now, Shortly after the OSGATA versus Monsanto hearing in New York

Genetic contamination: Plants grown from transgenic seeds (also known as GMOs) send pollen through the wind and contaminate neighboring crops. When this happens large companies threaten affected farmers with lawsuits (and nearly always win). What’s more, transgenic seeds have many proven dangerous health effects and there is even more we don’t know. Once a crop is contaminated, there is no turning back.
Extinction: In the last one hundred years 94 percent of open pollinated fruit and vegetable varieties vanished. Seeds that were lovingly nurtured over decades or even hundreds of years are gone forever. We desperately need diversity in a changing climate.