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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 4, 2016 16:43:12 GMT -5
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Post by lisaann on Jul 5, 2016 12:05:12 GMT -5
"The Johnson’s let the first incident slide."
That comment is odd, why would they let it slide?
"PFU settled with the Johnson’s out of court, and the Johnson’s agreed to sell their tainted products as non-organics for a lower price, and pull the fields from production for three years in order to bring them back up to organic standards. "
Must have gave them enough of a settlement to go fallow for 3 years, but their reputation was tainted after that, and their soil was too...........
"In many of these cases, the defendants ended up becoming bankrupted by Monsanto, even though Monsanto’s patented materials were the trespassers at fault."
And that is the moral to the story................
Regardless of the court ruling.............You'll suffer a slow and painful death...............
Well..............that was just my take on the whole thing............
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 5, 2016 14:38:50 GMT -5
Let's hope this guy is more successful. Maybe eventually someone will prevail. We can hope.
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Post by Tomato Z on Jul 5, 2016 15:25:45 GMT -5
lilolpeapickerThanks for that article. So many of us have been waiting for Monsanto and the other large chemical companies to be accountable for the horrible chemicals they're polluting the earth with. Score one for the organic farmers.
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Post by desertwoman on Jul 5, 2016 17:47:09 GMT -5
lisaann they have a 1500 acre farm. That's huge. I'm thinking that they didn't lose their entire crops and didn't have to lay fallow the entire 1500 acres. I could see letting a first incident slide if the damage wasn't too extensive, in the name of good neighborliness. But repeated offenses?I'd go after them too. Good for them. Good for Organics. This is a great precedent being set.
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Post by reuben on Jul 11, 2016 16:30:31 GMT -5
Interesting. I've read where farmers were sued by big companies (Monsanto?) when their crops inadvertently were contaminated by the GMO seeds either in a silo or other means. The company claimed that the farmers illegally profited from their GMO seeds.
That was several years ago, and no, I don't have a link. I think corn was the crop in question.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 11, 2016 17:01:22 GMT -5
Yes, I heard of that one too, reuben |
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Post by desertwoman on Jul 11, 2016 17:05:59 GMT -5
Yep- I heard that too.
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