Global: Don't sell ‘suicide seeds’, activists warn

One hundred peasant and indigenous rights activists greeted delegates at the United Nations biodiversity conference in Brazil last week with chants of ‘Terminate the Terminator’. The activists were demanding tough laws against the field testing and sale of so-called ‘Terminator’ technology, which refers to plants that have had their genes altered so that they render sterile seeds at harvest. Because of this trait, some activists call Terminator products ‘suicide seeds’.