Sentence examples for terminator seeds from inspiring English sources
They insist that terminator seeds would only be used for non-food crops.
Brazil is set to break a global moratorium on genetically-modified "terminator" seeds, which are said to threaten the livelihoods of millions of small farmers around the world.
Now, while denying that they intend to use terminator seeds, the companies argue that the urgent need to combat climate change makes it imperative to use the technology.
"I'm not aware of so-called terminator seeds having been developed by any organisation, and Monsanto stands firmly by our commitment and has no plans or research relating to this," said Tom Helscher.
That is likely to mean further erosion of indigenous rights, weaker environmental laws and loser restrictions on genetically modified terminator seeds – all of which are currently being pushed in congress by Abreu's lobby.
In congressional debates and in her feisty newspaper column, she has called for more roads through the Amazon, congressional control over demarcation of indigenous reserves, more efficient monocultures, and the approval of genetically modified "terminator seeds".
Major seed and chemical companies, which together own more than 60% of the global seed market, all have patents on terminator seed technologies.
This was the original terminator seed".
It was labeled the "terminator" seed project.
Monsanto's production history includes the notoriously dangerous Agent Orange, PCB, Terminator seed: a sterile seed forcing farmers to purchase additional seed each year, Roundup: one of the most commonly used pesticides worldwide, and the pesticide DDT.
One could not bring up a child on market principles, just as much as one cannot conserve water resources or share them equitably on the basis of market values set by the greed of water corporations or the willingness to pay of the privileged in society.Market fundamentalism applied to seed has given us terminator technologies to create sterile seeds, seed monopolies and seed famine.
