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Since I have not personally gone out to find a market for gm free food, I couldn't say that there is no price differential between GM and GM free. Even if I could say that there is none, that does not mean that gm free farms should not have space allocated between themselves and gm crops.

There are more reasons than money which would induce conventional farming of non GM crops. Since GM is the unproven, new kid on the block, the responsibility should rest with it's proponents to provide the barrier space.

Cricket tragic said " it just doesn’t make sense if you start to think about it. It would be perfectly possible to farm without use of gas, agrochemicals, banks, GM seed, chemical fertilizer, grain handling companies and petroleum-based transport. A few people still do. It is just that the costs of doing the alternative are so high that most farmers utilize these technologies."

The point of my suggestion was that when the combines take all of the bread, as voiced in Murray Mclaughlins song, they by definition don't leave enough bread for the farmers. Therefore farmers are forced out of the business, hundreds of thousands in North America alone. Certainly it would be possible to farm without such inputs as GM seed, fertilizers, pesticides, fuel, operating loans, etc. The point that society needs to grasp is that there are too few farmers taking care of too much land, operating under too much debt, precisely because those companies see fit to scrape the barrel dry each year.