“Even if those plants are the result of GM pollen upwind of a field of non-GM crops.
This means that all a GM company has to do is plant a single GM crop upwind of thousands of non-GM farms, and after the first season, all subsequent crops, by all those other farmers touched by the pollen, are no longer the farmer’s property.”
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"For years, the biotech giant Monsanto has provoked outrage among its critics for suing farmers who save and replant seeds, such as soybeans and canola, from the company's patented Roundup Ready crops."
http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops:Monsanto Defeats Small Farmers in Critical Bioethics Class Action Suit
"In the case the farmers, led by lead plaintiff Bryce Stephens, sought relief against Monsanto in the form a prohibition on Monsanto from bringing suit against organic farmers regarding seed contamination, given the really real possibility of cross-pollination via the wind and animals."
Elsewhere: “Monsanto each year investigates 500 farms whose fields purportedly contain Monsanto’s patented crops, even going as far as trespassing illegally on one Indiana farmer’s land. As of 2006, about 10 years after the commercial introduction of GMOs, Monsanto’s internal records show that as many as 4,531 such cases may have been settled out of court. “And all of these proceedings have been kept confidential.”