Isn't Dilma A Socialist?

Quote:While their neighbor to the south (Uruguay) is busy legalizing marijuana, Brazil is preparing to legalize a plant of another sort entirely—something known as Terminator seeds, which the ETC Group calls the country’s Christmas gift for Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta.

The seeds, which are really known as Terminator technology or suicide seeds, are genetically modified seeds that are said to prevent proliferation of GMOs by making the second generation of them sterile. Why would giant seed manufacturers like Monsanto do something so seemingly anti-GMO? Because if the second generation of seeds is infertile, farmers are forced to buy more at each planting, making them even more dependent on the seed giants.

In 2000, 193 countries signed the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which had a de facto moratorium on suicide seeds. In Brazil, one of the countries who signed the agreement, the pressure on this moratorium is mounting.

Quote:This is the most reckless and dangerous technology being deployed to make a fast buck. Should that terminator gene break into the wild and contaminate the natural varieties of the "Terminated" plants, we risk mass famine and a possible extinction level event.