“What is this?”- Harry Collins, Delta & Pine

(Picture above) Harry Collins ignoring La Via Campesina and other women

Today, before commencing the negotiations on the issue of suicide seeds, dozens of peasants from La Via Campesina and other women entered the Plenary Room and voiced their fears and feelings concerning Delta & Pine’s ugly baby, terminator technology.

Without knowing it, I was sitting close to Harry Collins, vice-president of Delta & Pine. After the peasants voiced their chants demanding rationality, respect for human life, and prohibition of Terminator, the Chair of the Meeting expressed his solidarity with the fight against terminator. His comments were strongly supported with applauses from the majority of the delegates in the room. Meanwhile, Mr. Collins said loudly: “What is this?” with a tone of amusement and annoyance while keeping his back turned to the peasants begging the CBD to protect their lifes.

Since you were giving your back to the people of the real world, I will respond to your question Mr. Collins:
“What is this?”

This is…
People threatened by your industrial interest
People sick of seeing governments look after the interest of the industry
People sick of being ignored and oppressed
People expressing their frustration with hearing your lies about Terminator being what peasants want
People trying to make their voice heard –something you have never experienced, you can always buy your time in a plenary, or have the US, New Zealand, Australia, or Canada speak for you
People asking you to respect the voice of indigenous communities
People asking you to stop using your corporate power to influence poor governments
People begging you to respect life

Mr. Collins, that is people asking the world to ban terminator.
This is the real world, where your seeds do not belong.