Are there fees that farmers will have to pay to grow GMO crops?
Genetically Modified Foods are now being marketed as the crops of the future. You can have everything you want in produce and meat and milk, and they can make it happen. Don’t doubt the economic gain that these agro-chemical companies are seeking. The following two plans are under development by Monsanto of the US, and AstraZeneca of Britain. They fall under the trait-specific technology, called Genetic Use Restriction Technology (T-GURT). “Technology Protection,” is how they sell it. “Terminator” technology makes plants that would produce sterile seeds after one season. This means, farmers have to buy more seeds for the next harvest. “Traitor” technology is a trait-specific technology that develops traits which would remain dormant in crops. Farmers can choose to activate this trait by spraying their crops with a proprietary chemical compound. This means, they’ll have to buy the proprietary compound to treat their crops in order to activate it. There are even biochemical companies req
