******This thing with Insanto is becoming ridiculous to those of us on the outside. If corporate interests didn’t control the courts then this issue would have been solved years ago. Insanto's lawsuits are as rational as somebody with a pedigreed dog suing me for letting my dog be knocked up by their stray. I should be suing for puppy support. (taken from the Common Dreams comments section of the article titled Farmers Continue Fight Against Monsanto)In case you hadn't heard:
Seventy-five family farmers, seed businesses, and agricultural organizations originally filed suit in March 2011 in an act of self-protection against what Food Democracy Now!'s founder and executive director Dave Murphy calls "Monsanto's scorched earth legal campaign of threats and intimidation against America’s farmers." In this campaign, Monsanto has threatened and filed suit against farmers for patent infringement when its genetically modified seeds reach unsuspecting farmers' fields.
“We have a right to farm the way we choose,” said Maine organic seed farmer Jim Gerritsen, President of lead plaintiff Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA). “Yet Monsanto is unwilling to control their GMO pollution and they refuse to sign a binding covenant not-to-sue our family farmers for patent infringement should their seed contaminate our crops. Monsanto’s publicized ‘Commitment’ promising that they would not sue farmers was described by Monsanto’s own lawyers as being ‘vague.
Here's the docudrama THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO to watch if you had any questions.