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To: allmendream

The main problem with GM crops is the way courts and the law have dealt with them as intellectual property to date. If a farmer plants non-GM crops in a field across the road from GM crops owned by Monsanto, and there is cross-pollinisation, then Monsanto can sue to confiscate or destroy the non-GM planting farmer’s crops.

GM itself isn’t the problem - Monsanto is.


30 posted on 02/13/2012 11:22:41 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
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To: Yashcheritsiy
"If a farmer plants non-GM crops in a field across the road from GM crops owned by Monsanto, and there is cross-pollinisation, then Monsanto can sue to confiscate or destroy the non-GM planting farmer’s crops."

Can you cite specific a case in law where this happened? Was it appealed? where?

64 posted on 02/13/2012 7:04:16 PM PST by cookcounty (Newt 2012: ---> Because he got it DONE.)
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