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In reply to the discussion: I'm just going to leave this here quietly, then run like hell.... [View all]riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)If they want to create a scene in a farming community they go after a high profile organic producer and accuse them of poaching their seeds. Cross contamination is incredibly high in our area - its inevitable.
NONE of us small farmers can possibly hope to win in a case like that. Monsanto (and others) have legal resources we cannot ever tap. Its a way of forcing us out of business. My sister runs our local green market and I'm one of her suppliers. I've already had people looking at my "neighbor's" plot, suspiciously close to ours. If I didn't also run a horse boarding biz (with 40 uber suspicious wealthy women clients questioning ANYONE on our property) I presume they'd already have samples of my seeds for prosecution.
"Stay with it"? And you say you are a PhD in this? What the fuck? You know we are obliterated in this arena.
Monsanto and their ilk are killing us out here.
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