Feranija <feranija@net...> wrote:

>Derek Lyons wrote:
>> pure kona > wrote:
>>
>>> I believe there was even a suit by Monsanto against a smaller corn
>>> farmer whose corn was pollinated by this particular Monsanto seed.
>>> Inadvertently. The idea was crazy and I don't know how it turned out.
>>
>> He was sued because he was growing corn derived from Monsanto plants.
>> He was found guilty because, though he claimed his field was
>> pollinated accidentally, they found evidence that he was deliberately
>> growing plants descended from those accidentally pollinated.
>>
>> D.
>
>Farmers save their seeds for the next season, of course. He was
>found guilty of that, although he never purchased Monsanto's GMO seeds.

No, he was found guily because he was _deliberately growing_ plants
descended from those accidentally pollinated, a very different matter
from saving seed. (IIRC he was growing them in his barn under grow
lamps.)

D.
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