Monsanto wins lawsuit against Indiana soybean farmer
Monsanto claimed intellectual property infringement when a farmer used the company's patented seeds from a commodity seed bag.
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The case also seems to suggest that farmers will no longer be able to save second generation seeds from grain elevators if (as stated in this case) 90% of the seeds in the grain elevators are from GMO sources. So, whether they want to buy GMO seeds or not, they'll have to buy seeds from the GMO producer or a grain elevator - saving seeds is no longer permitted...
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While I absolutely hate what Monsanto is doing, the farmer was just as evil as any farmer who is intentionally growing GM crops. In this case, the farmer was getting his seeds without paying Monsanto by using Roundup to kill off the non-GMO plants so he would be saving the seeds only from his GMO plants. This is really a different thing.
Replanting seeds is not evil at all. How the hell do you think farmers have continued crops for thousands of years? Did the seeds magically appear out of thin air?
And genetically modified crops are not evil, despite what movies and paranoid environmentalists would have you think.
Did you know that some methods of genetic modification simply involves intensive breeding and cross breeding programs? You modify the genetics by identifying specimens that have the traits you are.... More
Of course replanting seeds is not evil! Monsanto's modis operandi, well one of several actually, is to require farmers using their GMO seeds to purchase new seed with every new planting. They own enforceable patents. They have been known to sue organic farmers whose only "crime" was to not know that Monsanto's guarded, experimental GMO plantings had escaped into the wild, so to speak, and were taking root in fields that were never intended to harbor such.... More
Yep, Monsanto is the evil empire and if they have their way they will own the entire world's food supply - and you thought gas prices were high. This is not done without the help of politicians, but no one seems to care. Why aren't people in the streets? We need to get back to Organic farming - I buy local and support organic farmers and appreciate all the work they do to raise my food. Also, Roundup is now known to cause birth defects....would you trust a company that made DDT, Agent.... More
Maybe if monsanto and their gmo farmers keep suing each other they will put themselves out of business. Never thought monanto would sue one of their own. Are they that greedy or are they hiding something
I watched a documentary on Monsanto recently that was infuriating. It's not right what they are doing to farmers. Its hard enough to make a living as a farmer without having to worry about Monsanto dropping in with lawsuits. I hope Monsanto gets what's coming to them before too many more farmers have to deal with their selfish endeavors.
If I was asked to nominate one company, and only one, to be awarded the "Evil Empire" prize, Monsanto would be that company. I read recently that some of their GMO corn - developed to withstand the effects of a particular pesticide - is failing because, in essence, the pests themselves have become immune to the pesticide. This was predictable.
Apparently, this farmer actually was trying to get around their patent so he could go ahead and grow another crop of herbicide resistant.... More
