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mexico oil spill is sparking allegations and court cases a year on but while those in charge play the blame game cleanup workers on a coastal residents are starting to feel the health impact of the disaster. next to a nazi it's a report on one american farmer who's fighting against a massive multinational corporation producers genetically modified foods you with arts. ball control gauges no one should control light no one can have that great input patterns and nature at night as long as my wife and i have light within us we will

always go down and fight for the rights of cars always to be able to use their seat from year to year no one should pay back right away for anyone. this is why the judge ruled number one if you are contaminated i gates your wishes by might satisfy you own or longer own your seeds or plants faith become the ownership of a corporation in this case months 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 can or crop go through might sample. 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 rhondda but in spite of this powerful chemical while injured canola plants continue to thrive among the wheat this can all it was sprayed with four times the normal rate that you would spree. roundup and yet it has not died so it's a very powerful. research can all look around and so it's definitely monsanto's seed that is here we've created our real big frankenstein.

the pesticide roundup produced by the multinational concern monsanto is the most widely sold spray in the world monsanto mates canola resistance around. this means round up 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 navy's that the 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 even believed that cooperation. in ninety ninety six the chemical giant monsanto introduced its brand of canola into canada a brand for. systems of the pesticide round up in smoke this region three farmers

agreed 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 sea. but on top of that monsanto turned him the victim into a culprit august nine hundred ninety eight some ice or was sued by months out o. 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 once in the first place. under the patent law is settled by a later patent you have to use the papel 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 he filed a counter suit against the chemical called brazen and grounds of environmental pollution see destruction and slander from that time or unsubtle how the small wheat farmer spied on a pursuit like a crumb. in summer nineteen only knowing the situation became even more menacing for days detectives with cars were in front of smiters driveway following him on to the fields and observing his every footstep. and we found out afterwards and by taking license numbers that they were people hired by monsanto and author 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. that when kennedy or whatever by things or things that happened.

he did everything to bring you stone financially and mentally and that's what they're doing is to mentally and financially great people. they are totally ruthless they have no ethics they have no morals it's the bottom line. the old. i had a trust fund to pay for some of my legal bills and some time ago i got 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 and i asked her why do you want to who's hopeless or coat you have to give me a reason even under the bank you can just close somebody is a cop out and she would tell me what the reason was and finally i said to her is it

because of monsanto and she said yes. and i said why and she said what santa went to the head office and said to the head office of the canadian and bank of commerce if you don't counsel criticizers we who trust find out we will cancel all our phones with the canadian n.p.r. old bank of congress 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 it for granted that smites us canola fields contained ninety five to ninety eight percent of months on joe's g.m.o. canola the judgement is a scan 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 my suspect 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 judge ruled is what made the case become internationally known overnight what can happen with farmers and when you introduce g.m.o. and the judge ruled this number one it does not matter how eighth farmer is contaminated and he went on to say cross-pollination with colin flown in the wind by birds. or by direct sea floor an end to win by our farmers transportation if your contaminated against your wishes you no longer own your seeds or plants have become the ownership of boats and all under patent law for we

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

plants then we only had one ag in your left and that was the supreme court of canada first of all we said to the supreme court that a farmer always had have the right to use his seeds from year to year if on his own farm and the most important issue to my wife and myself by that time was that no one no corporation and no individual should ever have the right to put up after and higher life forms like a seed or plant. when i use the term higher life form i mean any lie thorn whether it's a bird be an animal face or even a human being. if

you have a patent on that gene that in doubt poland and i guess in your field you don't belong or own your seeds or plants so you could have one plant g.m.o. and all these could be regular organic but true katla 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 it will 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 than ever before and more powerful and more toxic chemicals because it

has become a super week the other issue is that the quality is much poorer and and so now we have and then also poor eels and you give you an example of that even the united state department of agriculture just a short time ago indicated that they yield and soybeans was down about fifteen percent with the introduction of g.m. or was. 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 is he allowed to cultivate the see the natural right of every farmer to replant he's harvest seeds is waived by contract. i have a contract here for monsanto and i'll just give you some of the clauses in that contract. a farmer must obvious by his seeds from monsanto. you must only buy

the chemicals from monsanto he can never use these seeds and he must pay monsanto about forty dollars a license fee on each actor he owns each year he must permit monsanto's police force to come on his way and per three years after the contract even though he may only grow moves one year and might sound as police could go in your green reese they can go in your fields they can get your tax records your programming records with or without your permission and if a parm or commit some violation of the contract might sound a can take all its profit or monsanto can make of the stories crock and a partner is not allowed to say anything to anybody about it. you know the multinationals with these contracts are exercising more power than any government would ever dare to do most saddle india or two thousand and three contracts have

another cause out it which states that a farmer can no longer sue months or take months out of court or lay a lawsuit against monsanto no matter for what reason it could be whether it's perceived or per props they'd no longer consume us out almost her rate so weight our farm even taken months hundreds of courts to all her freedom of speech expression is taken away total domination and control by a multinational over a farmer his late stamping their primary into a home into the ground he has no longer any rights where and that's basically what the judge ruled in my case against are most honest he's against me and not sound was packing is over or not though farmers rights. and we hope that the supreme court will change that and give the rights back to the farmers where they belong not to multinational corporations.

in all of north america there are hundreds of formants under the same threat as percy schmeiser only a few of them have had the courage to come forward to talk about. the even from indiana is one of the few that is standing up to munson no but even he took half a year before going public with his story and sandoz investigators arrived on my farm it was price of a thirty at night pm they. did not identify themselves i really did not know who they were and tell about three days later. i was informed from the local feed mill where i have my seed cleaned every year after twenty years and they inform me that that's who they were that they were investigators for

monsanto and investigating me for patent infringement. all they really wanted to know all the investigators was what kind of a savings i grow kind of wheat do i grow what 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.

that 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 i was worried i want to be worried here i was going to be possibly drug in a foreign federal in a federal court and 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 but 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 tried to 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 whom 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 there. i had one of the first to 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 his 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 come to me so i drove one hundred twenty miles just to talk to him and i all the way up north in a state pen and i talk to him and he help me out and it wasn't quite as bad as i thought it would be but he helped me out a lot you nothing else just to say help settle my nerves. and he survived it and i come to 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 license fees let's like course he smiles or 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 munson so including a provision to keep silent about his case he is now advising farmers threatened by months sound 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 scoffed falsify the results of your soybeans. the farmer actually most at risk and the situations is the farmer not growing the g.m.o. soybean. 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 situation 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 knew what they're accusing you of. the majority of farmers i speak with. they they don't have the financial wherewithal to put to fight these battles. a lot of them. you know i can recall one particular farmer was working with you know he and they had to file bankruptcy and they couldn't hire an attorney it's just terrible it's terrible when you've got this multinational corporation spending millions of dollars they can take and. prove whatever they want i often say that after my experience with the coarsest and lady justice holding the scales of balance and in the way the core system seems to work in america at least from a simple same point in power money on the balance and one who puts the most money

on once our core system is just that was that 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 genetically altered or a month or monsanto's roundup ready canola that they should inform under need for additional rock they said squeal on your neighbor can we in return farmers tell me that if they did that they would get a leather jacket from monsanto. if a farmer would squeal or rat on his neighbor what monsanto would do is send out one of these or two of these x. r.c.m.p.

already captive so investigators want everyone to call them and they would go to our farm home and this is what the farmers would tell me they would come into this farm home and say to the farmer so we have a tip or a room where they do been grown road up ready canola without a license and if you don't come clean we'll get to you won't have a farm left when we're through with you or with you and we nor will if you tell us that you're not your lion. farmers begin now not to trust one another because if you had a visit from an ex r.c.m.p. or a moment santa representative the first person. you would think well it wasn't my neighbor it attorney and or was my neighbor 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 the breakdown of our communities by this policy.

they wanted to introduce when i see one or two i mean like monsanto another company's wheat rice flocks. and no permission was given. and it can aged people and the farmers and the continuum are said we have seen the damage it has done to health the environment more chemicals what the poor props we do not want any more new modes the i've heard not only in your country but also in my country and the united states scientists say and some government people say we must be part of this new technology.

this new technology is crazy science it's unsafe science and it's not proven science. and if we've had in north america eleven twelve years of game modes how come we don't have lots of food now that the done hungry world. of worker ration is one total total control of the seed supply which will then give them total control of the political party that's what do you most are all about and not more who feed a hungry world control of the seeds of power.

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