Raids on Seeds (LIFE, itself) ... by Monsanto

Life itself depends on seeds.

Multinational biotech corporations such as Monsanto have been genetically engineering them

But even if the GE-seeds were wonderful and all that was promised, the real problem with them are the patents they come with.

The biotech companies are monopolizing seeds themselves, actually privatizing the DNA of life.  They sell the GE-seeds at many times the price of normal seeds.

And the seeds come with a contract that must be signed, preventing farmers from collecting seeds off their own land at the end of the season

They are removing

access to normal "open pollinated" seeds,

Having bought up the normal seed companies

Monsanto is now working to eliminate

the seed cleaner

The farmers has had three choices - to buy normal seed (now almost gone), to buy GE-seeds at huge cost

or to collect their own seeds and use them

an impossible task without the seed cleaner