They said, first of all, we’d have to sign a release form. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have an interest in using the included information for research and educational purposes. Farmers would be forced to buy the seed each year, whether you’re a gardener, a tree planter or a grain producer. If Monsanto owns the patent on a gene, and you cannot control it when you put it in the environment as a seed—in a seed or in a plant, then they should be responsible for the damages they do to organic farmers and conventional farmers. AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt from the documentary Percy Schmeiser: David versus Monsanto. ~and he shook his fist in our face and said, “Nobody stands up to Monsanto. And one of the other reasons that we look at it is the—as I mentioned before, the future generation. And then the—so, and then, another one, farmers—freedom to exchange seeds should be protected.


AMY GOODMAN: Explain what you mean by a terminator seed.

NARRATOR: In 1996, the chemical giant Monsanto introduced its brand of canola into Canada, a brand resistant to the pesticide Roundup. AMY GOODMAN: Finally, you now travel around the world. And seeds are a common property resource. It went through the lower courts and the court of appeal and so on, and then it went all the way to Supreme Court of Canada. But if we probably would have went to Montana or to the next province or 200 miles away, climatic conditions are different, soil conditions are different, and that’s why the farmers should always have that right to develop seeds and plants suitable for their own conditions. Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds Gathered here in Bonn this week are some eighty Right Livelihood Award laureates, including the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser, who has battled the biotech giant Monsanto … PERCY SCHMEISER: That’s a big issue, because that has become, I think also in North America, a big issue, the liability issue. Monsanto said, “If you don’t sign the release, then we will not remove the offending plants,” the GMO Monsanto plants. And then we look at what kind of a future are we going to leave for them. AMY GOODMAN: What are the Schmeiser’s principles of food and agriculture? So, I’ll never forget March 19th, 2007—or ’08, and it went—at the beginning of the court, the Monsanto’s lawyer got up and said, “Your Honor, we will pay”—well, there was mediation and everything before that—”We will pay the $640 and the $20 cost.” The whole issue was never the $640. But little did we know, about two years later, in 2005, we noticed that one of our fields, or we felt one of our fields were contaminated again with Monsanto’s GMOs. And I think it has become a bigger issue in Europe now, it’s because the organic industry, I believe, is much stronger in European countries than it is in North America, although it’s growing very fast in both our countries, in the United States and Canada.

And besides that, there was another lawsuit in the seven years before it went to the Supreme Court, where they tried to seize all our farmland.
And you cannot do with them what you want.” And we notified Monsanto, “We will do what we want with those plants. Percy Schmeiser came into the spotlight in the 1990s after he was taken to court by Monsanto for using its genetically modified canola seeds without a licence Percy … In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C.

They would use their vehicles and sit on the roads alongside of our farmland, watch us all day long, to try and intimidate us and to put fear into us. Become a member to unlock production contacts and get our weekly list of all major film and tv projects currently in pre-production and active development. Our weekly publication provides a comprehensive breakdown of feature films, television shows, pilots, and digital media projects currently in pre-production and active development. Monsanto made its canola resistant to Roundup.

PERCY SCHMEISER: That Monsanto owns it.

Were you traveling much then? Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds. This means Roundup kills every plant without exception.