The legal pressure continues to mount on Monsanto as two significant court cases move through the judicial system in the United States.
First is a group of organic farmers bringing suit against Monsanto in a district court in Manhattan. See this article:
Will organic farmers see their day in court?
The article states:
The eighty-three family farmers, small and family owned seed businesses, and agricultural organizations comprising the organic plaintiff group represent over 300,000 individuals. The landmark lawsuit, filed in March 2011, challenges the validity of Monsanto’s transgenic/GMO patents and seeks court protection for innocent family farmers who may become contaminated by Monsanto seed.
Next is a law suit dating back to 2004 in Putnam County, West Virginia, where jurors are just now being selected for the trial.
Monsanto jurors must decide if Nitro residents should be tested for disease
In this suit, the plantiffs are asking “that Monsanto bear the cost of periodic medical testing to determine whether their exposure to the harmful chemicals caused any one or more of 12 different diseases, which they say are caused by exposure to dioxin.”
Apparently, the people in the law suit live in close proximity to Monsanto’s Nitro chemical plant, where Agent Orange (dioxin) has been manufactured for over 30 years.
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Monsanto is a giant that needs to be taken down. People riot about corporate greed yet this company rapes and pillages small farms and forces them to take their GMO’d seeds and then owns them for life. It’s modern day slavery.
I hope they win.
Many States have an invasive law. If you invasive plant gets on my property then you have to pay to have it removed. Invasive is defined as non-native. What a native plant is can be argued, but there is no way that a GMO could meet any definition. Could this law be used against GMO’s?