Re: Food for thought

**"bbmackey" b*@prodigy.net**

Who is trespassing on whom? Tom Alexander states the case clearly. The 
organic farmer was minding his own business at home and bees or the wind 
contaminated his crop with genetically modified (GM) canola pollen. In the 
case of terminator crop pollen, his crop could have picked up the 
self-destruct gene, thus causing total future disaster for the farmer (even 
if he had not been sued). This is the crux of the matter. If GM crops would 
not leak their genes out into wild plants and non-GM plants, this issue 
would not be so important. But nature does not work that way, and life is 
not fair anyhow. Terminator technology is a most serious threat to future 
generations of plants, animals, and people.

-- Betty Mackey  www.mackeybooks.com
>
> You believe that pollen that pollutes an organic grower's crop is the
> organic grower's problem not the other way around. The Canadian
> Supreme Court also sides with you when they decided in Monsanto's
> favor in a case where Monsanto's Round Up Ready canola pollen
> polluted an organic farmer's canola crop; Monsanto physically
> trespassed on the organic farmer's land to get some samples for
> evidence, and then to add insult to injury, the organic farmer was
> ordered to pay Monsanto royalities for the resulting Round up Ready
> seed crop. This is a great example of how twisted the legal system is.

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