"the alliance aims to help testing and distribution of crops genetically modified to boost nutritional content"

Question is what else are they doing? GM crops are really not the way to go.
For instance GM crops produced by Monsanto will only grow with a certain additive that only Monsanto has access to.
This forces many developing countrys to purchase it solely from them. Giving Monsanto massive influence over how the country operates.

Take a look at this extract from an article showing a related case in Canada that highlights this issue.


Farmer puzzled by
weed killer's surprise crop
Cathryn Atkinson / The
Guardian 5feb00
It all began with a few stubborn weeds in a ditch. Percy
Schmei...

"the alliance aims to help testing and distribution of crops genetically modified to boost nutritional content"

Question is what else are they doing? GM crops are really not the way to go.
For instance GM crops produced by Monsanto will only grow with a certain additive that only Monsanto has access to.
This forces many developing countrys to purchase it solely from them. Giving Monsanto massive influence over how the country operates.

Take a look at this extract from an article showing a related case in Canada that highlights this issue.


Farmer puzzled by
weed killer's surprise crop
Cathryn Atkinson / The
Guardian 5feb00
It all began with a few stubborn weeds in a ditch. Percy
Schmeiser, a 68-year-old Canadian farmer, was puzzled by the poor result of his
annual herbicide spraying in the spring of 1997. As in previous years, he used
Roundup, Monsanto's weed killer, along the outskirts of his 570-hectare farm
near the hamlet of Bruno, in Saskatchewan.
Despite saturating the area with herbicide, he found rogue
oilseed rape plants thriving in ditches and around telephone poles. Having
crossbred his own seed for 35 years, he wondered if he had accidentally created
some kind of mutant.
So he sprayed Roundup from the edge of his field into his
own flourishing crop of oilseed rape. It should have killed everything but, to
his alarm, more than 60 per cent of the plants survived. Only Roundup Ready
oilseed rape - genetically modified by Monsanto to create a mutually exclusive
relationship between its seeds and its herbicide - can survive.
Full article here: http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Percy-Schmeiser-Monsanto.htm
In many developing countrys herbicides and pesticides are an expensive commodity Monsanto got their foot in the door by selling it at rock bottom prices undercutting their nearest competitors by up to 50%