In other words, Monsanto is developing a business in which it has total control of the world food supply. This sounds like a violent sci-fi horror movie, but is very real. The potential sequel to this movie is also very real. Hybrid corn is the basis for the US food supply and economy. Producing hybrid seed requires the transfer of pollen from a male parent of one genetic line to the female parent of another genetic line.
Corn is a self-pollinating plant.
To produce hybrid corn it was necessary to detassel the female parent before pollen maturity. This required paying a large number of kids, usually kids who needed money for college in the fall. A quarter century elapsed from introduction of the CMS gene to the CMS-SCLB destruction of part of our food supply. The RR gene has been used only since 1996 into a rapidly expanding part of our food supply. Monsanto declared RR safe, but no testing has been done to see whether it is a pleiotropic gene as was the CMS gene.