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and it's really face is a lost generation with one in five young people out of work and few prospects of getting a job in tough economic climate the country's battling to prevent suffering the same place as greece and it. well when it comes to food and agriculture there was a time when farmers who the roost now growers are up against the might of giant science firms so he can get us eating genetically modified meals salty discovers next. world controlled nature no one should control light no one should have that great

can put ads on each other at night as long as my wife and i have like within us we will always fall down and quite for the rights of partners always to be able to use their speed from year to year no one should pay back right away from anyone. this is why the judge rule number one if you are contaminated i gates your wishes i might satisfy most you will no longer own your seeds or plant space become the ownership of a corporation in this case points out. he also ruled we were not allowed. to use our seeds were planted again.

he also ruled that all our profit from our ninety ninety eight and all across coastal might settle. in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven as a result of a simple discovery life changed dramatically for the seventy year old farmer a power line runs along the edge of percy schmeiser property as usual the power company had the surrounding vegetation controlled by applying the herbicide roundup but in spite of this powerful chemical canola plants continued to thrive among the wheat so this could all it was sprayed with poor times their normal rate that you would spray. roundup and yet it has not died so it's a very powerful. resistant can all look around and so it's definitely monsanto's

seed that is here we've created a real big frankenstein. the pesticide roundup produced by the multinational concern monsanto is the most widely sold spray in the world monsanto made its canola resistance around. this means roundup kills every plant without exception only monsanto's genetically modified canola remains alive. it was introduced without really much testing being done and i think even at that time when it was introduced in the middle of the eighty's that even the governments were taken in by what these corporations told what it would do like increase the old and less chemicals and more nutritious and i think the government's even believed the corporation. in ninety ninety six the chemical giant monsanto introduced its brand of canola into canada

a brand. assistance of the pesticide round it's my says region three farmers agree to plant monsanto's new g.m.o. canola. due to a heavy storm during the harvest freshly cut g.m.o. canola drifted into percy schmeiser spiels his work of fifty years of breeding was destroyed because his harvest was contaminated by monsanto seed. but on top of that monsanto turned him the victim into a culprit august nine hundred ninety eight slicer was sued by monsanto for having illegally planted the corporations paid into g.m.o. canola. he was to be forced by a court decision to pay damages in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars and all this for a canola seed eat it not want in the first place. under the patent law is said to violate a patent you have to use the patent in my case i never use monsanto's patent i

never sprayed their chemical round up on my fields so i never used their patent. but percy schmeiser would not let himself be intimidated if filed a counter suit against the chemical corporation and grounds of environmental pollution see destruction and slander from that time or monsanto have the small wheat farmer spied on and pursued like a trump. in summer nineteen only knowing the situation became even more menacing for days detectives with cars were in front of smiters driveway following him onto the fields and observing his every footstep. came out. and we found out afterwards that vacation license numbers were people hired by monsanto and also monsanto representatives themselves they didn't even stop by the people they would even drive into our yard here and i don't know if it was just. a

myth. haven't haven't ation or whatever but these are things that happened. and they did everything to bring us down financially and mentally and that's what they're doing is to mentally and financially break people. the are totally ruthless they have no ethics they have no morals it's the bottom line. i had a trust fund to pay for some of my legal bills and some time ago i get a phone call from the manager of the bank saying they were going to close out that account and they wouldn't give me no explanation so i went to see the bank manager which was a lady in asked her why do you want to close this account you have to give me

a reason even under the bank that you can't just close somebodies account out and she wouldn't tell me what the reason words and finally i said to her is that because of monsanto and she said yes. and i said why and she said one sample went to the head office and said to the head office of the canadian piro panko congress if you don't count so percy schmeiser is going to trust fund out we will cancel all of our phones with the canadian imperial bank of commerce across canada . in two thousand and one smiles or was ordered in his monsanto trial to be about four hundred thousand dollars in damages and costs the court to take for granted that smites us canola fields contains ninety five to ninety eight percent of months son joe's g.m.o. canola the judgement is a scandal of twenty eight test results only for back such a figure the rest varies between sixty nine and zero percent with contradictions

and different evaluations most samples were procured behind spices back not one of them was taken in his presence the decisive expert witnesses in court were either monsanto employees or paid by monsanto the judgment left people stunned worldwide today even canada's government admits that g.m.o. canola is everywhere. and what the trial judge ruled their first trial judges rule is what made big case become internationally known overnight what can happen with farmers when you introduce g.m.o. and the judge ruled this number one it does not matter how eighth armor is contaminated and he went on to say cross-pollination where colin thrown then to win by birds he used or by direct c. flown in to win by or farmers transportation if your contaminated against your wishes you no longer own your seeds or plants have become the ownership of monsanto

under patent law we had about five hundred and fifty characters stated to rate c. in one thousand nine hundred eight he would. ruled because of the contamination all the profit from our crop in one thousand nine hundred eight goes to months after another important issue he mentioned he said it best not matter how much a promise is contaminated if it's half a percent one percent two percent it does not matter you no longer own your seeds or plants. after this decision percy schmeiser and his wife are very demoralized just like many farmers who had been following the case pretty decided to appeal the ruling and took the case to the higher court but after two more years of legal battles a no three hundred thousand canadian dollars of legal expenses the judges again

ruled if you were contaminated with months sometimes genes you no longer own your seeds and plants then we only had one avenue left and that was the supreme court of canada first of all we said to the supreme court that a farmer always had to have the right to use his seeds from year to year if on his own farm and the most had partnership to my wife and myself by that time was that no one nor corporation no individual should ever have the right to put a cap on higher life forms like a seed or plant. when i use the term higher life form i mean any lifeform whether it's a bird be animal face or even a human being. if

you have a patent on that gene that's in that colon and it gets in your field you don't longer own your seeds or plants so you could have one plant g.m.o. and all these could be regular organic or true that they can claim all of your plants. because you don't know which one is g.m. or which is not. in one thousand nine hundred six when it was introduced farmers were told three main things had to always be a bigger yield or it would be more nutritious and less chemicals and within three

and four years we found out that the total opposite happened we're now using more chemicals in ever before and more powerful and more toxic chemicals because it has become a super wheat the other issue is that their quality is much poorer and and so now we have and also poor eels and you give you an example of that even the united states department of agriculture just a short time ago indicated that a yield on soybeans was down about fifteen percent with the introduction of g.m. most. monsanto's technology contractor virtually turns the former into an accomplice of the agro chemical industry he has to buy new seed every year with the technology surcharge and only them you see allowed to cultivate the seat a natural right of every farmer to replant his harvest seeds is waived by country. i have a contract here for monsanto and i'll just give you some of the causes in that

contract. our farmer must albus by his seeds from monsanto. he must only buy the chemicals from monsanto he can never use is seeds and he must pay monsanto about forty dollars a license fee on each character he owns each year he must permit one town his police force to come on his way and for three years after the contract even though he may only grow you move one year and month sounders police can go in your grain reese they can go in your fields they can get your tax records or priming records with or without your permission and if a farmer commit some by lation the contract might sound take all its profit or monsanto can make and the stories crop and a farmer is not allowed to say anything to anybody about it you. know the most you know signals with these contracts are exercising more power than any government

would ever dare to do months out to india or two thousand and three contracts have another cause out it which states that a farmer can no longer sue or or take months out of court or lay a lawsuit against on sandro the matter for what reason it could be whether it's a proceed or poor props they no longer consume on sound almost sound repeats their rates are way however from even taken months out of court so all the freedom of speech or expression is taken away a total domination and control by a multinational over a primer for slate stamping a primer into into the ground he has no longer any rights for it and that's basically what the judge ruled in my case against are not sound as he's against me and my soundness patent is over not go burma's rights. and we hope that the supreme court will change that and give the rights back to the partners where they belong

not to multinational corporations. in all of north america there are hundreds of farmers under the same threat as percy schmeiser only a few of them have had the courage to come fully to talk about. david runyan from indiana is one of the few that is standing up to months. but even he took half a year before going public with his story on santa as investigators arrived on my farm it was price of one thirty at night pm they. did not identify themselves i really did not know who they were until about three days later. i was informed from a local feed mill rihab my seed cleaned every year at for twenty years and they

informed me that that's who they were that they were investigators for monsanto investigating me for patent infringement. all they will want to know all the investigators was what kind of class soybeans i grow kind of wheat do i grow a kind of corn do i grow and the herbicides i use and also whom do i sell my products to they wanted name and phone numbers. and at that point i refused to cooperate and i ended the conversation. so anyone they investigate they will definitely find will have someplace a positive identification for genetic material. and

i worried after i found i was contaminated i worried i lost thirty pounds that year just or six or eight months just a timeframe we were i want to be were here i was going to be costly drug in a foreign federal in a federal court never really been in a courtroom before and let alone go to federal court but now i'm not afraid of them i'm not scared of them and i know who i'm fighting and i know their tactics. i contacted an attorney i had to i knew that and i cannot fight them by myself monsanto is too big of a company and i don't have the money too. and i thought after i'd seek counsel he advised me to put some signs up so i did put some signs up to keep people off and

particularly them if i can i don't know i guess time will tell on that. well most of the farmers that have that have relations with monsanto yes they are afraid of them and a lot of them have their settled and signed gag orders so they cannot speak about anything so you only find a handful of farmers out here that can actually talk about this i told no one i talked to no one until i found out who turned me in and advised by my counsel i just didn't talk about it i probably didn't talk to anyone about it for six months .

and they're. just try had one of the person go talk to that i knew had been through it already and fortunate i could prove to him that day that i was a farmer and i needed help and he helped me. and i'm thankful for him call him up yeah i'm in the field ok here's my location you come to me so i drove one hundred twenty miles just to talk to him that's all the way up north in a state pen and i talk to him and he help me out and then it wasn't quite as bad as i thought it would be but he helped me out a lot he had nothing else just to say help settle my nerves. and he survived it and i came the conclusion that i can possibly survive it too.

also from indiana troy rush was wrongly accused of having reuse months santo's d.m.o. seat without paying the license fees much like percy schmeiser his family had to come up with four hundred thousand dollars in legal expenses and finally after several years of legal battles agreed to settle with monsanto including a provision to keep silent about his case he is now advising farmers threatened by months like david runyan the first thing i advise a farmer who has non g.m.o. soybeans is you must have third party sampling and testing of your crop because monsoreau falsify the results of your soybeans. the farmer actually most at risk in the situations is the farmer not growing the g.m.o. so. because now he has to in fact prove his innocence that's the opposite of what people think you know our legal system does here in america innocent till proven

guilty well maybe so in a criminal so to ation i don't know but i can tell you when you're in a civil fight with a company like monsanto it is up to you to prove you did not in fact do what they're accusing you of. the majority of farmers i speak with. they don't have the financial wherewithal to fight these battles. a lot of them. you know i can recall one particular farmer i was working with and you know he and they had to file bankruptcy and they couldn't hire an attorney it's just terrible it's hard when you've got this multinational corporation spending millions of dollars they can they can. prove whatever they want i often say that after my experience with the coarsest and lady justice holden those skills and balances and in the way the court

system seems to work in america at least from subsidy employees you power money on the balance and one who puts the most money on once our core system is just i was that i was a dismal experience and i'm just just appalled that that's allowed to go on in america. if a farmer felt his neighbor was grown genetic altered or a month's had her monsanto's her roundup ready can all or that they should inform underneath they should wrap they said squeal on your neighbor and we can return farmers tell me that if they did that they would get a leather jacket from my santo. if a farmer would squeal

a rap on his neighbor right monsanto would do is send out one of these or two of these x. r.c.m.p. or detective serino besta gators whatever you want to call them and they would go to a farm form and this is what the farmers would tell me they would come into this farm home and say to the primer so we have a tip or a rumor that you've been growing wrote a pretty canola without a license and if you don't come clean we'll get you you won't have a farm left when we're through with it with you and we know if you tell us that you know if you're lying. farmers again know not to trust one another because have you had a visit from an x r a c m p or amounts that are representative of the first person . you would think well it wasn't my neighbor that turned me in or was my beaver that said this about me so it was destroying that social fabric and i think this is

one of the worst things that could happen to prate don't ever communities by this policy. they wanted to introduce when i see one or two i mean like monsanto another company's wheat rice flax talca and no provision was given. and it can aged people and the farmers and it could tumor said we have seen the damage it has done to health environment mark chemicals with a pair of props we do not want anymore new dmoz the i've heard not only in your country but also in my country and united states scientists

say and some government people say we must be part of this new technology. this new technology is crazy steinitz it's unsafe science and it's not proven science. and if we've had in north america eleven years of g m o's how come we don't have lots of food now that the world. of corporations want total total control of the seed supply which will then give them total control of the political party that's what you most are all about not more food peter hungry world control of the seeds of power.

question is that so much of the taxpayers' money coming to him and we'll see if years after the cia back bay of pigs operation the castro dynasty still dominates and is it time finally did in the.

just. say the sun.