Hope Shand of the ETC Group, a civil society organization based in Montreal, said that as the number of biotech acres has swelled, the seed industry has shrunk.
“In 2006, Monsanto’s biotech seeds and traits accounted for 88 percent of the total world area devoted to genetically modified crops,” she said. “This is a staggering level of corporate control over the world’s seed supply.”
2 Reports At Odds On Biotech Crops, Dispute Is Over Use of Pesticides by Rick Weiss, Washington Post.
