The inevitable result of GE will be that biodiversity will suffer. It enables developing countries to benefit from their own biodiversity. This should mean that Northern bioprospectors pay, ending biopiracy . The CBD also recognises the role of indigenous peoples in both understanding and preserving bioresources and acknowledges their right to profit from them. Unfortunately, the CBD's intentions frequently clash with World Trade Organisation rules.
Biodiversity depends on preserving habitats containing the broadest range of species or varieties.
One way to ensure this is to give local people control over the land where they live so they can maintain their twin heritages of cultural and bio-diversity, the true Spice of Life. Astonishingly, these vents are the focus for a web of organisms which have evolved in this pitch black world to use the minerals as a source of energy, entirely independent of sunlight and photosynthesis. The largest extinction known was at the end of the Permian Period about 250 million years ago. The American burger giant offers identical food in most countries of the world. One variety of one crop only.