ball control nature no one should control life no one can have that great input patterns and nature and right as long as my wife and i have life within us we will always go down and fight for the rights of par was always to be able to use her seat from year to year no one should take that right away from anyone. this is why the judge ruled number one if you are contaminated against your wishes by might satisfy your own no longer own your seats or plants they 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 nine hundred ninety eight canola crop ghost amounts happened. 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 was probably as usual the power company had the surrounding vegetation controlled by applying the herbicide round up but in spite of this powerful chemical volunteer canola plants continue to thrive among the we this can know it was sprayed with four times their normal rate that you would spray. or. and yet it has not died so it's

a very powerful. resisting canola to round up 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 made its canola resistant to round up 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 ninety's that even the governments were taken in by what these corporations told what it would do like increase fields and less chemicals and more nutritious and i think the government even believed the corporation. in ninety nine hundred six the

chemical giant monsanto introduced its brand of canola into canada a brand resistant to the pesticide round and smy says 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 seed. but on top of that monsanto turned him the victim into a culprit august nine hundred ninety eight schmeiser was sued by months on joe for having illegally planted the corporations paid into g.m.o. canola. he was to be forced by a court decision to bay damages in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars and all this for a canola seed he did not want in the first place. under the patent law. it says to

violate a patent you have to use the patent in my case and never used 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 on monsanto how the small wheat farmer spied on a pursuit like a criminal. in summer ninety ninety nine 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. and path we found out afterwards and by taking license numbers that they were people hired by monsanto and also monsanto representatives him selves they didn't

even stop by the field they would even drive into our yard here and i don't know if it was just me or a method of intimidation or whatever but these are things that happened. he did everything to bring a stone 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 bottom line. i had a trust fund to help 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 will. to see the bank manager

which was a lady and i asked her why do you want to close out this account you have to give me a reason even under the bank act you can't just close somebodies account out and she wouldn't tell me what to reason words and finally i said to her is it because of monsanto and she said yes. and i said why and she said monsanto went to the head office and said to the head office of the canadian imperial bank of commerce if you don't. percy schmeiser is he who trust fund out we will cancel all accounts with the canadian imperial bank of commerce across canada. in two thousand and one smiles or was ordered in his months on to a 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 santo's g.m.o. canola the judgment 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. were procured behind my suspect not one of them was taken in his presence the decisive expert witnesses in court were either months into employees or paid by months on to 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 rule is what made the 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 a farmer is contaminated and he went on to say cross-pollination we're calling clone then to win by birds 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 hectors stated to rapeseed in one thousand nine hundred eight he was. ruled 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 upon what 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 percy decided to appeal the ruling and

took the case to the higher court but after two more years of legal battles the no three hundred photos and 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 should 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 no corporation no individual should ever have the right to put a patent 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 an animal face or even a human being. if

you have a patent on that gene that's in doubt poland 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 but true patent law they can claim all of your plants. because you don't know which one is g.m.o. which is not. in one thousand nine hundred six when it was introduced farmers were told three

main things had 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 the quality is much poorer and and so now we have and then also poor eels and to give you an example of that he even the united state department of agriculture just a short time ago indicated that they yield on soybeans was down about fifteen percent with the introduction of g.m. most. monsanto's technology contractor virtually turned into an accomplice of the agro chemical industry he has to buy new seeds every year with the technology surcharge and only them is he allowed to cultivate the seat the natural right of every farmer 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 always buy his seeds from monsanto. he must only buy the chemicals from months handle he can never use is seeds he must pay monsanto about forty dollars license fee on each hector he owns each year he must permit one town just police force to come on his way and for three years after the contract even though he may only grow jammu one year and month sounders police could go in your grain race they can go in your fields they can get your tax records your programming records with or without your permission and if a farmer commit some violation of the contract might sound or can take all its profit or a month's handed can make him destroy his crop and the parmer is not allowed to say

anything to anybody about it. no the multinationals with these contracts are exercising more power than any government would ever dare to do months saddle in dear two thousand and three contracts have another cause added which states that a farmer can no longer sue months or take months out go to court or lay a lawsuit against monsanto no matter for what reason it could be whether its poor see poor crops they'd no longer consume us out almost takes their rights away have a farm even taken months out or to court so all their freedom of speech or russian is taken away total domination and controlled by a multinational over a farmer has like stamping their primer into a into the ground he has no longer any rights with and that's basically what the judge ruled in my case against montana's case against me monsanto's patent law is

over and up oh farmers 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 foula to talk about. david runnion from indiana is one of the few that is standing up to months on but even he took half a year before going public with his story and 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 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 will i want to know all the investigators was what kind of beans 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. and

i worried after i found i was contaminated i worried i lost thirty pounds that year just or six months just a timeframe we were i want to be worried here i was going to be possibly 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 had 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 they 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 person 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 you come to me so i drove one hundred twenty miles just to talk to him and i was all the way up north in a state pen and i talked to him and he helped me out and then it wasn't quite as bad as i thought it would be but he helped me out a lot being 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 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 santo 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. 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 be 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 they had to file bankruptcy and they they couldn't hire an attorney it's just terrible it's terrible and then 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 the skills and balances and in the way the court system seems to work in america at least from a super slim point is you 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's have her monsanto's hit roundup ready canola that they should inform underneath they should wrap a suit squeal on your neighbor and weak in return farmers tell me that if they did that they would get a leather jacket from monsanto. if

a farmer would squeal a rat on his neighbor what monsanto would do is send out one of these or two of the sex r.c.m.p. or detective syrian best to gators whatever you want to call them and they would go to a 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 rumor that you've been growing wrote up ready 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 you with you and we know if you tell us that you're not your lion. farmers begin know not to trust one another because if you had a visit from an ex r.c.m.p. or a mount santa representative the first person. you would think well it wasn't my neighbor

that turned me in 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 say wanted to i mean like monsanto another company's wheat rice flax. and no permission was given. and it can aged people and the farmers and it could to more said we have seen the damage it has done to a health environment more chemicals what the poor crops we do not want any more new dmoz.

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 he's tyrants it's unsafe science and it's not proven science. and if we've had in north america eleven twelve years have game modes how come we don't have lots of food now that the done hungry world. of corporations want total total control of the seed supply which will then give them total control of the park that's what do you most are all about not more food feed a hungry world but control of the seed supply.

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