Department do to try to move ahead. I think that, you know, I certainly agree, want to echo the importance of making the point about a commitment to preserving some germ-plasm that has not been manipulated to contain foreign genetic material. And, you know, after we make that point, I think it’s really important to explain why that’s so important, because if farmers can start each year with viable access to a non-GE seed, that truncates the possible scope of the problem in any given year to the frequency and degree of gene flow or comingling, or as Missy says, some downstream mixing. And I think all of the data that we’ve heard, and the presentations by the breeders, you know, even under sort of worst case scenarios, the degree of gene flow and contamination that can happen if you are starting with clean seed is, it’s above .9 percent, this level that is in the marketplace, but it’s not so bad that it’s going to sort of take over the whole seed supply. So I hope we would make that point that this commitment to preserving non-GE seed options in the future is a hedge against this problem getting incrementally and progressively worse. I like the concept of us trying to emphasize that, in practice, coexistence is about mutual respect and
Department do to try to move ahead. I think that, you know, I certainly agree, want to echo the importance of making the point about a commitment to preserving some germ-plasm that has not been manipulated to contain foreign genetic material. And, you know, after we make that point, I think it’s really important to explain why that’s so important, because if farmers can start each year with viable access to a non-GE seed, that truncates the possible scope of the problem in any given year to the frequency and degree of gene flow or comingling, or as Missy says, some downstream mixing. And I think all of the data that we’ve heard, and the presentations by the breeders, you know, even under sort of worst case scenarios, the degree of gene flow and contamination that can happen if you are starting with clean seed is, it’s above .9 percent, this level that is in the marketplace, but it’s not so bad that it’s going to sort of take over the whole seed supply. So I hope we would make that point that this commitment to preserving non-GE seed options in the future is a hedge against this problem getting incrementally and progressively worse. I like the concept of us trying to emphasize that, in practice, coexistence is about mutual respect and
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