I'll state for the record that I approve of GMOs on a conceptual level, and agree that they are the future of agriculture. The problem people have is that when a company can create a genome, they own that genome as intellectual property. The problem is that Monsanto's specialized wheat plant has the potential to germinate a small farmers crop. This is problematic for a few reasons, one being that some of Monsanto's crops cannot produce seeds, and so it raises the threat of losing an entire species that the world is dependent on. Secondly, the Farmer would be under violation of Monsanto's patent because they are producing wheat with the modified genome. The Farmer is either forced to pay royalties or get the pants sued off of him as a result of natural forces in nature. Monsanto actually uses germination as an official strategy and has no beef with destroying small ag if it makes them richer. It's too much power for a corporation to own an entire species, especially if the world is dependent on it.