In most villages, I can tell you, no matter what Monsanto does, and no matter how much they corrupt the government of India or elements of the government of India to push these laws through, they will not be able to push them on the people of India. We would not have been able to do any of this in anyplace if we had not worked strategically with partners. I started this work in 1987 as a result of a representative of Sandoz stating very clearly that by the turn of the century, there would only be 5 corporations controlling food and health and we will control it through patents and genetic engineering. To me, a statement like that was a dangerous call and I had to do something about it. In the 1980's we were a handful of people.
Today there are thousands.
Those alliances exist and they are being strengthened every day. Totalitarianism also in the fact that genetic engineering unleashes hazards. So I might want to be an organic farmer, but next to me is a genetically engineered field which contaminates my crop and denies me the right to produce safe, pure organic food for consumers. It's an authoritarian system that takes away my freedom to grow quality food. In the US about two years ago, the organic standards were attempted to be corrupted and genetically engineered crops and food were going to be identified as organic.