HoustonChronicle.com - Lab altered corn worries Mexican farmers

"But its detection in the peasant fields of Mexico, where all the corn varieties in the world had their origins 5,000 years ago, has farmers fearing that the altered gene could infect native plants, creating strange but beneficial traits like the ones that caused villagers to line up along Maldonado's fence six years ago. "

Beneficial to Monsanto, perhaps, but not necessarily to the consumers and to the ecosystem.