Farming specialists said they feared several other outcomes: Patent protection spurring big breeding concerns and biotechnology companies to control livestock sales; further reducing the biological diversity of farm animals and possibly putting the nation's food supply at risk.

According to Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO, the proliferation of RTA "...is breeding concern - concern about incoherence, confusion, exponential increase of costs for business, unpredictability and even unfairness in trade relations."