Yes, Allan, I heard Percy Schmeiser speak at the Global Justice Action Summit in Missoula, MT, this summer. It's very important that everyone understand that seed contamination by a patented seed results in the corporation that holds the patent owning your whole crop and in the case of canola and soybeans, commercial seed is probably contaminated, meaning that you could lose your whole crop to Monsanto just because you bought seed. Canola and Soybeans shell out easily. What happens when every crop is genetically engineered and patented?
The whole system of patenting life is wrong. World agriculture, healing systems (through biopharming), even cell lines are threatened. It's all in the video "Not for Sale." Sadly, Merla Allan Balliett wrote: > Percy Schmieser is the Canadian seed-saving Canola grower who was > accused by Monsanto of stealing their patented Round-up Ready canola > seed from them. Instead of bowing down before Monsanto, Percy, whose > family has worked over 40 years to develop the strain of Canola that > he grows, chose to fight Monsanto in court. His story is still open > ended. The government has most definitely NOT supported rights that > we all, perhaps erroneously, take for granted. > > Percy Schmeiser spoke at Acres this past Saturday evening. His > honesty and humilty are undeniable. The horror of the situation he > has been thrust into is unimaginable, as is the greed of Monsanto. > After Percy's presentation, I don't think there was a dry eye in the > house, nor anyone who wouldn't do all they could to make sure that > everyone knows how underhandedly Monsanto deals with farmers and how > the courts of Canada are under the influence of Monsanto. > > You can get a lot of information about Schmeiser at > http://www.percyschmeiser.com > > Please tell everyone you meet about his plight and how Monsanto is > working with world governments to contaminate the natural world so > that everyone in the future will have to pay them huge sums for the > use of their copywriten biology. > > -Allan
