On January 12, 2010, Haiti was impacted by a strong earthquake of a magnitude of 7.0. This earthquake was the strongest this nation had faced in 200 years, leaving more than 200,000 people dead, and over 895,000 people homeless. Haiti was already considered as one of the poorest countries, and with the impact of the earthquake, most of the limited amount of riches the country had, were loss. After this tragedy happened, a lot of people started making donations to aid the people of Haiti. One of the donations this country received were $4 million worth of pesticide-coated hybrid and conventional vegetable seeds (GMOs) to farmers' associations from Monsanto (Monsanto). A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism
