When a farmer can't grow seeds from a crop he farmed but is forced to buy seeds over and over...year after year...the farmer looses money...and a corporation decides who and who can't grow food and where...think of the hunger that is killing more people than any other disease in this world..and instead of developing crops to be more productive, they make them less productive to further monopolize food supplies...the U.S already has a monopoly on food consumption....how much worse will it get?
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/...o/monsanto.html
Terminator is the answer to the agribusiness dream of controlling world food production. No longer would they need to hire expensive detectives to spy on whether farmers were re-using Monsanto or other GMO patented seed. Terminator corn or soybeans or cotton seeds could be genetically modified to ‘commit suicide’ after one harvest season. That would automatically prevent farmers from saving and re-using the seed for the next harvest. The technology would be a means of enforcing Monsanto or other GMO patent rights, and forcing payment of farmer use fees not only in developing economies, where patent rights were, understandably, little respected, but also in industrial OECD countries.
With Terminator patent rights, once a country such as Argentina or Brazil or Iraq or the USA or Canada opened its doors to the spread of GMO patented seeds among its farmers, their food security would be potentially hostage to a private multinational company, a company which, for whatever reasons, especially given its intimate ties to the US Government, might decide to use ‘food as a weapon’ to compel a US-friendly policy from that country or group of countries.