Who has developed the research and technology concerning the GMOs?
The majority of the research centers that have developed this technology belong to large corporations, most of them in the United States and Europe. Some investigation has also been done in the public and/or university arenas, but the main body of technology has been developed by large businesses. In the United States, the open collaboration lent by the Department of Agriculture to business leaders in this technology is well-known. In addition, US business leaders in that field, along with the US government, reinterpreted intellectual property laws in the eighties, in order to allow exclusive control and monopoly rights for all biological products and processes. This has obvious implications: a few large companies have obtained patents for technology and its uses. The development of technology in this area has been so rapid that current legislation has not been able to be amended or reformulated adequately in most countries, thus allowing the “monopolistic and exclusive control over ge
