gmo's rule
monsanto won a court ruling in canada recently over organic farmers. monsanto has a patent on a gene that makes crops resistant to its weed killer, round up. which means you can't plant a monsanto crop without paying them. so far so good. you also can't buy random corn. plant it. spray it with roundup. not pay monsanto. and claim your infringement is legal. and therefore free. cause wharrgarrbl. the thing that's extraordinary about this particular ruling is that the court ruled you owe license fees if some portion of your crop is fertilized by pollen blowing downwind from adjacent fields of monsanto crops. huh. think about that one for a minute. you grow a non-monsanto crop. you charge say 10x for the organic variety. but your crop was contaminated by gmo's released into the wild. so not only is the value of your crop destroyed. but to add insult to injury, monsanto can sue you for license fees. which seems absurd. seems like the organic farmers should be able to sue monsanto for damages to their crop by this invasive gmo. seems like they'd get the extra multipliers for negligence, foreseeable, and willful. sheehs.