In 1998 "New Technology 'Terminates' Food Independence - Seed Sterilization Has Profound Implications: Hybrid plant varieties are genetically manipulated to produce inferior second generation seed, while the Terminator "switches on and then off" the plant's reproductive processes. Rice, wheat, sorghum and soybeans are primary targets for the Terminator because they are not readily hybridized. Because of this, they are largely ignored by large agribusiness breeders. With the advent of this new technology, breeders will soon produce patented versions of previously "open-pollinated" crops -- varieties that Third World farmers have been breeding, saving and replanting themselves for thousands of years." - Rural Advancement Foundation International "Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause." - Prince Charles