MONSANTO TO PROFIT FROM GM POLLUTION? IS THIS DISGUSTING OR WHAT? [+] ballot by keithsheen created Tue Aug 03, 04 Apart from the fact that Genetically Modified foods are hazardous to the health of humans, animals and other plants; apart from the fact that the main aim is to gain ownership of and therefore collect royalties for the food that we eat.... read this: "Under this ruling spreading GM pollution appears to be recognized as a viable corporate ownership strategy" Pat Mooney ETC Group Imagine you're a gardener who likes to keep things neat and tidy, while your next door neighbour's idea of paradise is a bit more on the wild side. Their weed seeds drift across the fence and plant themselves in your soil and start to germinate. You lose the plot, and threaten to call the Council to get them to issue an anti social gardening behaviour order. But before you know it, the neighbours take you to court for stealing their seed! Ridiculous? But that's just what?s happened in Canada. Last Friday the Canadian Supreme Court made a final ruling on a seven year legal battle between the worlds biggest baddest biotech firm, Monsanto, and Percy Schmeiser a Canadian farmer. The court ruled that Percy had infringed Monsanto's patent rights by growing genetically modified Round-up Ready Canola (oil seed rape) on his land. Forget the fact that Percy didn't plant any of Monsanto's seeds. That it was Percy's seeds that got contaminated by GM canola and that he didn't even know that his crop was contaminated! Forget all that, Percy was infringing Monsanto's "intellectual property rights"! This strange twist of the law which persecutes people for having their own property polluted goes back to a Canadian Federal law passed in 1991 which ruled that patents have precedence over and above a farmer's rights. The ruling means that if a farmer has their crops contaminated with GM seeds then they could be potentially liable to pay Monsanto for "benefiting" from their technology. Terry Boehm, Vice-President of the Canadian National Farmers Union said "It moves us further along the path where corporations will control seed and farmers will lose the right to save seed." Totally and utterly disgusting Ballot #45439 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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