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The farmers know well enough what they are buying when they buy single season crops.

It's been the norm ever since the green revolution (modern hybrids often don't breed true http://www.foodrenegade.com/hybrid-seeds-vs-gmos/ ).

They are making an economic decision when they buy and plant any crop, and they are good at making it (it's a low margin business).

I want all food that was packaged on Friday the 13th to be explicitly labeled as FRIDAY THE 13TH FOOD because I have an irrational fear of superstitious dates. I demand the government require all food manufacturers to comply with this labeling regime.

There's nothing specific to GMOs that makes them patentable. Hybrid seeds can be patented, irradiated seeds can be patented, both of which are allowed to be labeled as organic.

Conventional cultivars are widely patented too.

> probably a patent

Then you want labeling about patents, not "genetic modification".