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Originally Posted by MTI
Monsanto owns the patent, so what's the issue again? Ag industry folks that don't want RoundUp or drought resistant corn can make their own choice and Monsanto is duty bound to protect their patents.
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The issue is the capability of Monsanto to, effectively, put any farmer out of business who chooses not to purchase their GM seeds.
The size of the corporation allows them to kill any given farmer with legal expenses, whether their case has merit, or not.
Furthermore, the corporation has the capability to enter any farm and spend any amount of time necessary to determine if the farmer has even a single GM seed or plant on the premises.............which may be simply a random event caused by wind from nearby farms. In such a case, the farmer is guilty as charged and needs to pay a huge royalty fee.
Sorry, this isn't right.