Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers

[FirstTracks]

The entire executive board of Monsanto should be given huge doses of datura and then be vigorously arse-plowed by a troupe of trained gorillas until their bowels fill to bursting with congealed monkey semen.........









on TV......














until they die.

but tell us how you REALLY feel....

 

[decarboxylator]

dang, you guys could have removed the extra lines and still got your jokes in.
eff monsanto!

 

[robbiedublu]

It's an agreement the farmer who plants the Monsanto seed signs. (and screw them anyway, they know what they're doing and are choosing to plant this seed for the sake of a slightly better yield) It won't keep anyone else affected by the seed from suing Monsanto.

 

[dannonamous]

It won't keep anyone else affected by the seed from suing Monsanto.

so you're saying you didn't read any of it?

 

[H^2o2]

Most independent growers already know about Monsanto and GM seeds. We've been battling them for decades. It's the AgroCorp farms owned by big corporations like General Mills and their counterparts that do the bulk of the Monsanto planting. Many of these farms grow near interdependent farms and then our crops get inter pollinated. The net result is get get the Monsanto genes whether we want them or not.

But, no harm in spreading their latest move in the continuing battle for genetics and the ultimate control of the food chain.

Also, technically and legally, the hybrids created from something you grew that was pollinated with Monsanto stock from miles away - BELONGS TO THEM, MONSANTO. THE DNA OF THE SEED/PLANT IS TRADEMARKED/COPYRIGHTED BY THEM. IF YOU WERE FOUND TO BE GROWING THEIR PATENTED CROP DNA WITHOUT PERMISSION OR PAYMENT THEY COULD ACTUALLY SUE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hunt4genetics]

Wal-Mart to the rescue?

Wal-Mart is the largest seller of organic goods.

If Monsanto continues it's assualt against Organic farmers,
They are bound to crack down on some of Wal-mart's suppliers.

I don't wanna step on Wal-Marts profits.
Do you want to Monsanto...?

 

[ImaginaryFriend]

IF YOU WERE FOUND TO BE GROWING THEIR PATENTED CROP DNA WITHOUT PERMISSION OR PAYMENT THEY COULD ACTUALLY SUE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

While I understand the presumed legal principles upon which this leans, it seems weak at best.

In principle, intellectual property rights attempt to insure a reasonable amount profitability to offset the costs of research and development by affording exclusive access to the control of the idea/process/item, etc.

If I developed a proprietary piece of software/code that penetrated other software/code and then claimed that whomever was using modified code was infringing on my IP, you would know I'm a retard. My code injected itself--if anything I'm liable!

That heirloom genetics are not patented does not make them any less a genetic code than those patented. They just belong to the public domain. If I own a genetic that is in the public domain, and it is cross pollinated by a patented genetic, the mechanic of cross pollination must be addressed.

In open fields, cross pollination is either accepted as a matter of course, or it is not.

If it is, Monsanto has no grounds to claim against the pollinated crop--as the pollinated crop happened as a matter of course. If anything, they can pursue their farmers for using farming practices that disseminated their proprietary genetic.

If the wind is not held to be a natural thing, and there is a legal burden associated with being down wind, then the same is true of being up wind.

Insofar as a genetic profile can be considered a legal possession (i.e. patentable), the changes resulting from cross pollination of to the heirloom varieties can be claimed as damages, even though the 'heirloom IP' is public domain, the physical seed is property. Examples of these damages would include loss of yield in future generations, loss of germination, exclusion from markets (i.e. the EU).

One the one hand, it is a great thing that farmers are farmers and not independently wealthy lawyers. On the other, if they were, Monsanto would be fucked.

 

[H^2o2]

great book about htis discussion I read in school - "Lords of the Harvest"

 

[robbiedublu]

so you're saying you didn't read any of it?

I read what you posted. Nothing Monsanto and a farmer planting their seeds agree to affects my ability to sue either one of them if I suffer damages because of their actions.
I don't even think it would keep a farmer who signed it from suing monsanto. People sign liability waivers all the time for all kinds of activities and then turn around and sue anyway when something bad happens, and sometimes win.

 

[RoachClip]

Monsanto is the Agriculture Devil of the entire Globe! Thier vision is to burn the farmers reap the rewards and are a clone of walmarts around the world

 

[GDB]

I just thought you guys would like to know Hungary and possibly other EU countries are starting to ban Monsanto and all GMO seed!!!