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And as normal instead of an informed debate it breaks down into a slanging match over GM which absolutely has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

So Waitrose are in trouble for stocking a perfectly healthy product which has no GM technology and producers are happy to grow ?

Hybrid seeds are special in that only the first set of plants will produce the improved vigour, saving seeds will simply produce lower quality plants and yield less or not come up to quality standards required.

No one forces growers in the UK to purchase specific seeds and if they weren't happy using them they could use others.

With regards to saving seeds, that's not generally an argument that holds in the UK since the supply chain is usually geared up to produce high quality produce that hopefully farmers and producers get a good price for.

In countries where subsistance farming is important and saving seed is a neccessity you'll often find seed producers do not prevent saving seed (if it's possible) if it's for personal use.

Organic, traditional, GM and other technologies will not fix our food problems on their own. There's nothing wrong with the right balance and right technologies in the right places or consumer choice.