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That doesn't make any sense. Monsanto owns patents in a very restricted area of plant transformation. They aren't going to just sue people owning a completely different technology, as they would have zero chance of winning, and a very high chance of pissing off the governments and (perhaps more scary) the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, who funded the next-gen tech.

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> Monsanto owns patents in a very restricted area of plant transformation. They aren't going to just sue people owning a completely different technology

They are already suing people who are not applying any plant transformation, just using seeds. They are even suing people who never used their seeds, but got affected by cross-pollination (http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-orga...). So who are you to say who they are or aren't going to sue next?

Seriously, what is with the blatantly biased sources? Why not link to a source from an unbiased top IP lawyer or professor instead?

Who are you to call these sources "blatantly biased" and IP lawyers and professors on the same payroll as you "unbiased"?

I was wondering that too.

Specifically since the dude, or dudette, is extremely assertive and even aggressive in demanding sources, while at the same time has not even remotely a source to offer for his / her assertions.

The biggest kicker was to demand a source for an opinion I presented.

If I wouldn,t be against feeding trolls I would be happy to explain the difference between an assertion of fact and an opinion.

They sue people who they think infringed their patents. Farmers who deliberately select out the Roundup resistant crops for replanting and/or buy the seeds illegally in contravention of patent law. I've read a lot of Monsanto vs. farmer court summaries, and I've not yet seen one where the farmer was not deliberately infringing. The article you linked to didn't mention any evidence that they have sued farmers who were simply affected by cross-pollination.

...and Monsanto originally included a "TERMINATOR GENE" which would have solved this problem by making all seed sterile, but this caused a lot of problem among activists.

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