I understand that Monsanto is researching genetic engineering in plant life such as incorporating parasitic or bacterial resistance genes into crop plants.

What I don't understand is how they can sue you if they accidentally cross-pollinate your crops. That's just plain wrong and I'd imagine, if anything, they'd be liable for a large settlement if it could be proven that they cross pollinated your crop.

Not only does it show a lack of regulation of their experiments but it could be downright dangerous releasing a genetically engineered plant's pollen into an ecosystem without fully testing the ramifications. It might even incur loss of crop for the poor farmer that it happened also.

Now if they could prove that a farmer stole some pollen from them and cross-pollinated his plants, that's a different matter and the buck lies with him.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/2009 08:16AM by istirith.