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Originally posted by dragon_lord:
What would happen if an organic farmer's crop was contaminated by a GM farmer's crop? Would the organic farmer be able to sue the GM farmer for compensation? So now the government passes legislation enforcing segregation of the two crops. Adding another cost to farmers. And theres the fact that the biotech companies own the GM seeds, so every year a GM farmer has to buy new seed. Instead of being able to take a cut from the previous years harvest and resow that.
>I live on a farm btw
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Thanks for an informative post Dragonlord.
IIRC I believe there has been a few instances were Monsanto (sp) have sued non-GM farmers for having GM crops, denying that the rate of cross-pollination would have caused the amount of gm crops found in the farmers field. They have accused them of stealing. And I have heard that you have as much chance of getting compensation out of Monsanto (sp) for your unwanted crop contamination as you have from tobacco company’s if you are a cancer victim