This is my last question.
We talk about feeding the world. We talk about new technology that will improve the lot of people. We've seen in Mexico, which was a self-sufficient country with regard to corn, millions of farmers have been forced off the land because of imported corn, some of it genetically modified. Now they are no longer able to feed themselves.
In India we've seen farmers who had been growing cotton, and when GE cotton was introduced, something like 160,000 people committed suicide because the crops failed because of the control of GE cotton.
Many African countries are no longer self-sufficient in rice because of world trade agreements where cheap, subsidized rice is coming in, forcing them off the land. I was at a conference here in Ottawa—and maybe, Lucy, you could give me the details or the name—but I asked a scientist--