Superweeds~plants that are gentically modified to resist Round Up may cross pollinate with other species. Only the most toxic herbicides will be able to kill them.
Causing the overuse of more toxic herbicides to kill plants that have been genetically modified to not die with somewhat less toxic Round Up herbicide.
Polluting waterways and sterilizing the land so nothing will grow.
Overuse of Water to grow crops not best for the climate. If every farmer in all part of the world have to grow the same seeds, they can’t all be made to grow in every climate. in many locations plants will use more water than acclimated natural plants.
Overwatering causes soil erosion, waste, sickness and disease and poverty and a reduction in the water supply.
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Vandana Shiva
Biopiracy refers to the use of intellectual property systems to legitimize the exclusive ownership and control over biological resource and biological products and processes that have been used over centuries in non-industrialized cultures. Patent claims over biodiversity and indigenous knowledge that are based on the innovation, creativity and genius of the people...biopiracy. Since a patent? is given for invention, a biopiracy patent denies the innovation embodied in indigenous knowledge. The rush to grant patents and reward invention has led corporations and governments in the industrialized world to ignore the centuries of cumulative, collective innovation of generations of rural communities.
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-11/16shiva.cfm
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