GM is about Money

This article looks at GM crops and examines the case that the ONLY reason that big corporations want to introduce them is to make farmers pay for seed which they could grow themselves for free..

There are a number of American and Canadian farmers being sued by
agricultural chemical and biotech giants because the company's seeds are being grown without a license.
The farmers claim that their crop has been contaminated by seeds which drifted
onto their property from neighboring farms.

Rodney Nelson of North Dakota is being sued by one such company, who accuse him of legally growing a crop of soya and harvesting the beans and replanting them, in breach of their patent.

The fact thata company can make the whole basis of 4000 years of crop farming (growing a surplus to replant the following year) a crime is something that is deeply disturbing.

According to Mr Nelson, the company have stated that no
matter how the seed gets onto a farmers land, they will still sue for patent infringement.

In court the judgement was handed down that:

It doesn't matter how a GM company's patented genes get into a field, if patented plants are there, a patent infringement has occured.

Further the ruling went on to say that any other plant cross
pollenated with the company's patented gene becomes the property of that company

This has the potential to ensure that through a creeping process of cross-pollenation, large biotech corporations will be able to own every crop planted in the US and any contry which agrees to US and Canadian trade rules.