Don't count on it!
Pollen from GMO's can and have severely affected Organic seeded plants and many of the Heirloom seeds.
Fortunately all the farmers for over a mile from me all are very cautious to also avoid GMO and particularly the Terminator Gene type. There have been several lawsuits over this -
a group of Saskatchewan organic farmers is now suing Monsanto and Aventis because their fields are literally being invaded by GM canola plants making it impossible for them to sell their crops as non-genetically modified. The European Union strictly prohibits GM canola. Arnold Taylor, president of the Saskatchewan Organic Directorate, told CBC News Online, "Since (the companies) started five, six years ago, it has been virtually impossible to find any seed stock that's uncontaminated."
Then to add insult to injury, Monsanto has been suing for royalties (and winning) over your growing crops infected with their patented Roundup Ready genetically modified strains.
Monsanto vs. Percy Schmeiser was heard in a Canadian court June 5 - 20, 2000. According to reports, Monsanto never directly tried to explain how their genes got into Schmeiser's field. In fact, the Western Producer, a Canadian agriculture magazine, quoted Monsanto attorney, Roger Hughes, as saying, "Whether Mr. Schmeiser knew of the matter or not matters not at all." In other words, Schmeiser's fields were contaminated by Monsanto's GM technology, and it didn't matter if Schmeiser was aware of the contamination or not. They were going to make him pay for it! Percy Schmeiser said, "It was a very frightening thing because they said it does not matter how it gets into a farmer's field; it's their property... if I would go to St. Louis (Monsanto headquarters) and contaminate their plots--destroy what they have worked on for 40 years--I think I would be put in jail and the key thrown away."
On March 29, 2001, nearly three years after the contaminated canola was discovered in Schmeiser's field, Canadian Judge W. Andrew MacKay agreed with Monsanto that it did not matter how its genes got onto Percy Schmeiser's fields; the farmer was still guilty of having them without having paid for the privilege. (You can read the entire decision at http://www.fct-cf.gc.ca ). Sadly, as part of the damages, the farmer also lost 40 years of work improving his own canola seed line, as his crop was confiscated.
Fortunately all the farmers for over a mile from me all are very cautious to also avoid GMO and particularly the Terminator Gene type. There have been several lawsuits over this<<<
Thanks to DelaWhere, all the information that I was thinking of is here in her post 9479 about the lawsuits.
Welcome to the thread DelaWhere, and thank you for the
“rest of the story”.