A CANADIAN farmer must pay Monsanto for the genetically modified crops found
growing in his fields even if the seeds blew there from neighbouring fields and
he never intended to grow them in the first place, a federal court ruled last
week.
“Basically, the judge is saying that it does not matter how it got into your
field, it’s Monsanto’s property. But how does a farmer know if he’s got a
genetically altered seed that belongs to Monsanto?” asks the farmer, Percy
Schmeiser of Bruno, Saskatchewan.
The decision is an important one for Monsanto, which says it has to stop…
