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Originally Posted by momoese
You know the contamination is a serious problem when farmers are preemptively suing Monsanto to protect themselves.
"On 30 March 2011 a group consisting of over 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations in Canada and the US, filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company to challenge the chemical giant’s patents on genetically modified seed. The plaintiffs say they are being forced to sue pre-emptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed.
The case, Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al. v. Monsanto, was filed in federal district court in Manhattan"
http://www.pubpat.org/assets/.../see...-Complaint.pdf |
The lawyer in this particular suit did a great job of marketing fear.
Still, I am not a fan of many of Monsanto's choices. The worst is from herbicide resistant strains that are self-fertile. These (e.g. rapeseed) are naturalizing in many places and becoming invasive pests, crowding out native grasses (including native winter wheat) and destroying food sources for native life.