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Control of the seeds is a clear objective of transnational corporations, because who controls them, holds the key to the entire food chain. Transgenic seeds are the paradigm of this corporate governance, in addition to the strong concentration of market, they are also patented, that makes illegal the ancestral right of peasants to save seeds and return them to plant in the next harvest. Monsanto and other companies have already legally exercised this violation against dozens of farmers contaminated in United States and Canada, who have sued for illegal use of its patented genes. According to a report by the Center for Food Safety of United States, to the 2005 Monsanto had already claimed more than 15 billion dollars in 90 lawsuits of this type. Terminator and its clones even so, agribusiness companies go for more, even if patents are a tool for its monopoly, it involves detecting alleged illegal use and undertake trials. Why they devised the Terminator technology, to make sterile in second generation seeds and automatically compel all need to buy new companies for each sowing seeds.

This phenomenon happens mostly in United States and other northern countries already (without using Terminator, only by having imposed hybrids that do not maintain the level of production after the first harvest). What is this dependency on commercial seed It forced farmers in that country to continue buying GM seeds even if they yield less, are more expensive, and used more chemicals: simply could not do anything else. In the South instead, there are 1400 million male and female peasants using their own seeds to produce food and forage. Clip of new laws on seeds, introduction of transgenic and as a final blow, Terminator, is threatening forms of life of these peasants, so nobody more, nor in the North or South, can save their own seeds. After the first version of Terminator, which was patented in 1998 as a whole by the United States Department of agriculture with the Delta & Pine Company (now developing become property of Monsanto), emerged many other versions of this suicida-homicida technology, since almost all of the companies that produce agrotransgenicos, since that is the future that avizoran to apply to all GMOs.

He would remain five years teaching in India. At the end of the 1960s, a small group of Western youths, many of them hippies, urged it to travel to the West, where, according him, there were others waiting for their teachings. In October 1969, he sent a representative to London as a first step and in 1970 many of his new Western students traveled to India to meet him, still present when he announced at a crowded rally at India Gate, Delhi.67 his intention to travel to the West to meet the express wish of his late father to disseminate his teachings. Taking advantage of their school holidays, on June 17, 1971 he travelled to Canada and the United Kingdom, EE UU. He was interviewed on BBC radio and spoke at the first festival in Glastonbury, where he returned to give their message of peace. After traveling to Paris and Heidelberg (Germany), on 17 July he flew to Los Angeles starting a tour of cities in United States where he settled, nationalised in 1977.

He married Marolyn Johnson Californian (the marriage to a Westerner caused the break with his family) with whom he had four children. It was gradually abandoning all the connotations religious of the Indian tradition that had the Organization of his father (Divine Light Mission) during the 1970s, Rawat continued with their speaking tours and his work began to be officially recognized. He returned to India in 1980 and since then continued giving lectures in culturally different places as India, Japan, Taiwan, Ivory Coast, Slovenia, Africa as well as in North and South America, Europe and the South Pacific, many of which are broadcast via satellite on a regular basis. Adds us, Rawat has been criticized for lack of content intellectual in his public speeches and by living an opulent although Rawat always has stated that he does not offer an intellectual but practical content lifestyle Prem Rawat has responded to sum up his career in these words: until the day of today, people see me as you want to see me.

Even when UNDP used figures outputting on literacy and health in Venezuela, its latest report presents an important step forward in developing human, the biggest in nearly a decade and the most high in the trend since 1975, as well as a significant decrease in poverty during the 2004 year, not expressed in the poverty index as suchwhich remains unchanged in comparison to the year 2003, but on the percentage of the population living on incomes below 1 and $2 a day, and in the reduction of infant mortality. According to the report, the index of human development in Venezuela increased from 0,772 at 0.784, placing in position 72 of the world list headed by Norway with an index of 0.965, and in the Latin American region Argentina 36 with a 0.863 index position. Also, the report shows unalterable poverty rates, even though it presents a significant reduction to the 8.3 15.0 and the 32.0 to the 27.6 percent of the population living with less than $1 and $2 daily income respectively. With regard to the rate of infant mortality, the downward trend has remained throughout the management of Chavez, showing in this report a reduction from 18 to 16 per thousand children live births, representing nearly 2 thousand children saved from death. However, the PNDU used data from 1999 and 2000 to calculate educational indices, as well as using as reference a literacy rate of 93% which was in force until 2001 and that does not reflect the advances of the Robinson Mission that UNESCO itself has acknowledged to declare Venezuela a country free of illiteracy. It should not be forgotten as points out Sergio Arancibia, as the human development index, HDR, UNDP fails to account for all the contents present on the concept of human development – raised to almost philosophical – theoretical level but is in any case, an indicator that goes beyond mere economic growth indices.

UNDP considers only three concepts or basic parameters for the preparation of its HDI, each of which summarizes or need, in turn, other quantitative to be constructed history: long and healthy life, which is measured through the index of life expectancy at birth, which in turn is built taking into account the background with respect to infant mortality and average age of death; the indices of education, where key indicators are the rate of adult literacy and enrolment in primary, secondary and higher education rate; Definitely know, that Venezuela will establish new values in the standards of growth and human development. The second national study for human growth of the Venezuelan population will seek to establish biological and psycho-social standards through demographic aspects, habits, food consumption, intellectual development and indicators haematological and biochemical, among others. The investigation will take three years to make and will allow implement more accurate social policies. original author and source of the article.