Wherever suicide seed technology is adopted, farmers will have to go back to Monsanto year after year to buy a new ration of genetically modified seeds. Currently 80 per cent of crops in developing countries are grown using farm-saved seed. The Third World fought Monsanto and the U.S. government to a draw in Cartagena and no biosafety protocol was adopted. But the whole process helped the Third World figure out where it stands on these issues, and this kind of informed, thoughtful deliberation bodes ill for Monsanto's plan for domination of global food supplies. Public suspicion outside North America is reaching crippling proportions, and the reason is not at all mysterious.
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