So, under the category of "Apalling things that I didn't think Humans were capable of" comes this article available at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9191 (as usual, I have cross checked this story with various other sources)
Genetically Modified Seeds
Under the articles of agreement of the World Trade
Organization (WTO)), the food giants have been granted unrestricted freedom to
enter the seeds' markets of developing countries.
The acquisition of exclusive "intellectual property rights" over
plant varieties by international agro-industrial interests, also favors the
destruction of bio-diversity.
Acting on behalf of a handful of biotech
conglomerates GMO seeds have been imposed on farmers, often in the context
of "food aid programs". In Ethiopia, for instance, kits of GMO seeds were
handed out to impoverished farmers with a view to rehabilitating agricultural
production in the wake of a major drought.
The GMO seeds were planted, yielding a harvest. But then
the farmer came to realize that the GMO seeds could not be replanted without
paying royalties to Monsanto, Arch Daniel Midland et
al.
Then, the farmers discovered that the seeds would harvest only if they used the farm inputs including the fertilizer, insecticide and herbicide, produced and distributed by the biotech agribusiness companies.
Entire peasant economies were locked into the grip of the agribusiness
conglomerates.
The main biotech giants in GMO include Monsanto, Syngenta,
Aventis, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Cargill and Arch Daniel Midland.
Breaking The Agricultural Cycle
With the widespread adoption of GMO seeds, a major
transition has occurred in the structure and history of settled agriculture
since its inception 10,000 years ago.
The reproduction of seeds at the village level in local nurseries has been disrupted by the use of genetically modified seeds. The agricultural cycle, which enables farmers to store their organic seeds and plant them to reap the next harvest has been broken. This destructive pattern – invariably resulting in famine – is replicated in country after country leading
to the Worldwide demise of the peasant economy.
I hope this frightens you as much as it frightens me. The idea that these corporations are forcing entire populations to either pay up or die horribly in famine, is beyond mere greed, it is utterly inhuman.
But, what if these genetic alterations manage to escape into the wild? Perhaps the pollen from Genetically Manipulated crops somehow manages to pass on the 'suicide' gene to unmodified plant species, the world would find itself in real trouble, really quickly.
Of course, the kindly folks at Monsanto would say that this scenario is impossible, but I would say that Murphy's Law says otherwise.
