Canadian farmer forces GM giant back to court

You hafta love Percy, a guy who throws himself into the jaws of the lion because it's the right thing to do, and he does what's right.
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original-guardian.co


Canadian farmer forces GM giant back to court

· Monsanto accused of pollution over stray plants
· Campaigner believes case could trigger global claims

* David Adam, environment correspondent
* The Guardian,
* Tuesday January 22 2008



He was portrayed as an environmental David who stood up to the corporate Goliath, and became a figurehead of the battle against the introduction of genetically modified crops everywhere. When Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser was sued by Monsanto for growing the firm's GM crops, which he claimed blew on to his land, the company's eventual victory in the Canadian supreme court was overshadowed by accusations of aggressive tactics and corporate bullying.

Now, Schmeiser, of Bruno, Saskatchewan, is back to launch another slingshot at Monsanto, and this time he is suing the billion dollar business for £300 in his local small claims court. At stake, he says, is millions of pounds of compensation for those who have seen their land contaminated with GM material, and the rights of organic farmers and others to produce GM-free crops. Monsanto calls the case "specific and local".

Schmeiser and his wife, Louise, are suing for the C$600 (£300) it cost to hire contractors to dig up several of Monsanto's GM oilseed rape plants he found growing in a field he was preparing for a mustard crop in 2005. Schmeiser argues the stray plants are pollution, and the polluter should pay. The company refused unless he agreed not to talk about it.

Schmeiser said: "No corporation should have the right to introduce GM seeds or plants into the environment and not be responsible for it. It doesn't matter if it was $600, or $600,000. It has now become a very important case, even though it is small, because if we win then it could cost Monsanto millions and millions of dollars across the world."
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Last time he sued them because he claimed they were censoring him when they asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Or is this the same case?

He just may be the David to beat down the bully Goliath. If you can't stop the bully Monsanto from polluting our seed stocks with their questionable GM seed one way then try another. Any way will do. Go Percy.

Tell those corporate bullies we don't want no steenkin mutant chemicalized crapola facsimile food product.

We want clean food, and justice.

You GOOO, boyfriend!!!:bounce::bounce::bounce: I support PERCY with every ounce of my being!!!

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Wouldn't be sumthin' if a lowly Canuk farmer brought Monsanto to it's knees?

Wanna help him, go to his website.

It has links to the stories of his battle with Monsanto since 1999

http://www.percyschmeiser.com/

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We try . . .

I thank you for trying to keep Canada CANADIAN!

:thumbsup:

Go man.

Luckily the Supreme Court decision said that they couldn't.

GMO crops have nothing to do with the claim that Monsanto wants GMO so they can feed the hungry.

No, instead of feeding the hungry, GMO crops have allowed Big agribusiness to take away hundreds of acres from small farmers - as Monsanto will claim that any time one of their precious GMO plants show up on the farmer's land, the farmer illegally planted it. And the farmer goes to court and loses, and The farm ends up owned by big agri-business.

And in that sense, they are anti-American, anti-life, and anti-Earth...

Good news for the planet’s biodiversity, people’s food security and the right of farmers to save seeds.

In a blow to biotech agribusiness, the U.S. Patent Office has upheld a challenge by the Public Patent Foundation and invalidated four of Monsanto’s key patents for genetically engineered food plants.

Montsanto’s “ruthless persecutions (of farmers) have fundamentally changed farming,” says PUBPAT. “The result has been nothing less than an assault on the foundations of farming practises and traditions that have endured for centuries in this country and millenia around the world, including one of the oldest, the right to save and replant crop seeds.”

PUBPAT filed the legal challenge after Montsanto forced Saskatchewan farmers Percy and Louise Schmeiser to destroy all the seeds they were saving for the following year because, against their wishes, some Montsanto-patented GMO seeds had spread from neighbouring farms into their fields and seed supply.For more information, see article by Helke Ferrie in the December 2007 Monitor of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

http://rightoncanada.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/good-news-for-food-security/

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Ruthless persecutions

yup

If the shoe fits . .