Comment Re:Forget the Beets! (Score 1) 427
Due to the way GM plants are created and the fact that things like terminator genes mean that for many GM plants natural reproduction is not viable.
The terminator gene has never been used in a commercial product.
Regarding the rest of your argument, you are either severely overestimating the amount of diversity found in non-GM commercial seed, or severely underestimating the amount of diversity found in GM commercial seed. When you read a fact like "95 percent of crop X planted this year use Monsanto's glyphosate resistance trait", that does not mean that 95% of crop X are clones of the same seed. Monsanto licenses many of it's genes to third-party seed producers, who them introduce those genes into their own seed products.
The major risk here isn't that 95% of the plantings of a crop contain a specific gene, which you falsely hypothesize leads to increased mortality. The major risk is that we've already concentrated the bulk of our food production into only a handful of crops. For most diseases and pests, wheat is wheat, whether it is GM or not. If a pandemic begin spreading among the US wheat crop, it would likely affect most varieties of wheat.