Re: anti-GM is bad?

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it was cross pollinated, which was my point, but the case was
heard in Canada, not the US.

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:07:42PM -0700, Leigh Meyers wrote:
> It wasn't even Monsanto's crop... It cross-pollinated, and damaged Percy
> Schmeiser's crops and livelihood.
>
> Monsanto won this case in a U.S. court. I haven't checked recently, but
> the farmer was threatening to sue in the Canadian court system, where
> the outcome could be different. Also note [short form] that NAFTA and
> CAFTA figure into this, as a country can't do anything to affect the
> profits of a signatory nation that couldn't be done in the country of
> the corporation's origin.
>

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