Check out this video and then also review what and why large corporations like Monsanto are genetically modifying plants, seeds and other living food products. See if you can look past the advertising hype that "this is only about creating more food for an increasingly more hungry world" line.
Monsanto are the folks that brought GM seeds to places like India. Basically they have taken a strangle hold on the seed market and even sue individual farmers that want to farm using renewable crops. Monsanto does not seem to want to stand for that at all! No sir, they sue farmers for infringing on their patents when a farmer plants seed gathered from a previous (originally Monsanto sold seed) crop. (Forced) Non renewable means more profit for Monsanto!
View the link below for more details on the poor Indian farmers having to buy from Monsanto: