If they have a monopoly you no longer have that choice.
The 'big four' biotech seed companies—Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences own 80% of the US corn market and 70% of the soybean business.
They are looking to achieve similar results in the rest of thw world.
The US government went after Microsoft because it was seen as a monopoly in the PC market.
Why doesn't the US government step in to stop this GOM monopoly?
The US government didn't go against Standard Oil because they owned 90% of the refineries in the US, they went after Standard Oil because Standard Oil was using their 90% oil refinery market share to control the rail shipping industry.
The US government didn't go against Microsoft because they owned 90% of the PC operating system market, they went after Microsoft because Microsoft was using their 90% operating system market to control the web browser market (along with some other sub-computer markets).
Why isn't the US government going against Monsanto (for instance?) Because they aren't trying to gain control of another industry outside agriculture (or better lobbyists, take your pick).
It's so easy to make that choice when you and your family aren't literally starving to death.
Any description of technology "saving" lives is hyperbolic. Technology can extend lives, or make more lives possible to start, but we haven't yet found any technologies that will actually save lives.
Are you arguing the semantics of "save"? Bullet proof vests save lives... Polio vaccines save lives...
Or is that just "extending": "He was suppose to die with a bullet to the chest, so by stopping it, we extended his life"
Given the choice of a world fed on GMO seeds, controlled by multi-nationals, rammed down our throats by governments with their own secret agendas, or the good old fashion natural seeds, I'll take the later any day.