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January 7

	Percy Schmeiser's War Against Monsanto
		Percy Schmeiser, now in his early seventies, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered Canadian farmer from the small rural community of Bruno some 80km east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, never dreamt he would be catapulted to the status of a contemporary folk-hero.
		Undaunted, Percy Schmeiser took his case to the Supreme court, and in May 2003, when I caught up with him at the Biodevastation 7 meeting held in Monsanto's hometown St. Louis, Missouri, he just got the good news that he has won his right to be heard in the Supreme Court.
		Schmeiser received hundreds of phone calls from farmers who have been contacted by Monsanto representatives and received demand letters saying that they have unauthorised GM crops growing in their fields and must pay so many thousands of dollars to avoid lawsuit.
	www.rense.com /general40/percy.htm (1230 words)

	The Conflict
		Schmeiser has been growing canola -- the yellow-blossomed oilseed that used to be known as rapeseed -- for 40 years, and he knows his stuff.
		Schmeiser said he planted his 1997 crop with seed saved from 1996, and insists that any Roundup Ready growing on his land was spread by wind or by grain trucks travelling on roads adjacent to his fields.
		At that time Schmeiser said he has already spent $160,000 of his own savings for legal fees and another $40,000 of his own time, travel and compensation for labor he had to hire when he was away from the farm.
	www.percyschmeiser.com /conflict.htm (1834 words)

	Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
		Schmeiser was ordered to pay Monsanto $10,000 for licensing fees and up to $75,000 in profits from the sales of his crop.
		After three generations in farming, Schmeiser's family now faces bankruptcy Standing up to a multinational like Monsanto is costly but farmers from around the world have rallied to Percy's side.
		In practice, Schmeiser realized, what it means is that Monsanto has created a chemical spray guaranteed to kill any crop it doesn't "own." This also means that Monsanto has made it nearly impossible to eradicate any of its patented crops once they have been released into the environment.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Corporations/PSchmeiser_Monsanto.html (929 words)

	GEO-PIE Project: Percy Schmeiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"[Schmeiser] seeded that [1998] crop from seed saved in 1997 which he knew or ought to have known was Roundup tolerant, and samples of plants from that seed were found to contain the plaintiff's patented claims for genes and cells.
		Schmeiser was fined $15,450 for the fees he should have paid Monsanto to plant the seed and up to $105,000 from the profits of his 1998 harvest.
		Schmeiser knew or should have known that those plants were glyphosate resistant when he saved their seeds in 1997 and planted those seeds the following year.
	www.geo-pie.cornell.edu /issues/schmeiser.html (928 words)

	The Journal of History
		Percy Schmeiser is a long time farmer and implement agent from the small rural community of Bruno Saskatchewan.
		Schmeiser has been growing canola -- the yellow-blossomed oilseed that used to be known as rapeseed for 40 years, and he knows his stuff.
		Schmeiser says he has spent $160,000 of his own for legal fees and another $40,000 of his own time, travel and compensation for labor he had to hire when he was away from the farm.
	truedemocracy.net /td15/02.html (1682 words)

	Percy Schmeiser Case Gets Noticed In USA
		Schmeiser barely had heard of Monsanto before 1998, he said Friday at the Biodevastation 7 conference in St. Louis, a three-day gathering of opponents of genetic engineering.
		That year, Schmeiser was sued in federal court by Monsanto for raising herbicide-resistant canola from its genetically modified seed, which the company said is a violation of its patent rights.
		Schmeiser said he had to forfeit his profits from his 1998 crop and was forbidden from using his plants or seed again because they were contaminated.
	www.grainfields.com /monsanto/monsanto2.html (705 words)

	Percy Schmeiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Percy Schmeiser (born January 5, 1931) is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan, Canada.
		Schmeiser served as mayor of the town of Bruno from 1966 to 1983, and also as member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly for the Watrous constituency from 1967 to 1971.
		Schmeiser was the receipient of the Merit Award for Dealer of the Year in 1984 by the Saskatchewan Manitoba Implement Dealers Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Percy_Schmeiser (705 words)

	injusticebusters 2002 > > Percy Schmeiser: David against Goliath in fighting agribiz (Monsato and Round-up Ready ...
		Schmeiser testified at his trial in 2000 that he had no idea why in 1997 some canola plants on a particular field he had sprayed with Roundup had survived.
		Schmeiser to be tolerant to Roundup, a glyphosate herbicide."
		Schmeiser testified at trial that it might have been possible that herbicide resistant canola got into his field from seed blown off passing trucks or machinery, from pollen carried to his field by wind, birds or insects or even swaths of canola that were blown onto his field from a neighbouring farmer.
	www.injusticebusters.com /index.htm/Percy_Schmeiser.htm (4182 words)

	WHERE THE WILD WIND BLOWS: GENETICALLY ALTERED SEED AND NEIGHBORING FARMERS
		Percy Schmeiser is a farmer in the town of Bruno, Saskatchewan, Canada.
		Schmeiser claimed to be wrongly accused, stating that the seeds blew onto his farm without his knowledge or permission.
		Schmeiser noted that his farm is surrounded by other farms using the patented seed and that his fields are located along highways connecting to grain elevators.
	www.law.duke.edu /journals/dltr/articles/2001dltr0015.html (1815 words)

	EFAO - Percy Schmeiser, Guelph, 14 May 2005
		Percy and his wife, Louise, grew canola for over fifty years, and during this period, they developed a hardy, disease-resistant strain by saving seeds from their best plants.
		Schmeiser raised the issue repeatedly of what such tactics and practices are doing to the rural farming community.
		Schmeiser discussed the dangers created by the de-funding of public services such as education, that results in corporations funding education, but also the media, healthcare, etc. Plants are now being grown that contain patented genes which produce medicines and plastic.
	www.efao.ca /percy_schmeiser_guelph.html (1001 words)

	American Indian Movement of Colorado: Percy Schmeiser case
		Yesterday, May 21, 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that Percy Schmeiser, a canola farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada, was guilty of stealing genetically-modified seeds from Monsanto.
		Schmeiser maintains that he did not steal the seeds, but that seeds and pollen from Monsanto's GMO crops blew onto his land and invaded his seed stocks.
		A minor victory was achieved for Schmeiser when he was relieved of a $200,000 fine that was imposed by a lower court.
	www.coloradoaim.org /blog/2004/05/percy-schmeiser-case_22.html (196 words)

	Canadian Farmer loses case against Monsanto’s contamination of his crop: Decision ominous for Indian farmers
		Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer whose crop was contaminated by Monsanto’s GE canola fields near his own farm, had violated Monsanto's patent by planting seed from GE canola that had been found on his farm the previous year.
		Schmeiser appealed the decision, and in May 2002 his case was heard in the Federal Court of Appeal, which upheld the lower court's decision.
		Schmeiser argued that since he never sprayed his plants with Roundup, and thus never took advantage of their herbicide resistance, he never benefited in any way from the presence of Monsanto's patented material in his crops.
	www.greenpeace.org /india/news/canadian-farmer-loses-case-aga (754 words)

	Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1997, Percy Schmeiser, a canola breeder and grower in Bruno, Saskatchewan, discovered that a section of one of his fields contained canola that was resistant to herbicide Roundup.
		Schmeiser was articulate, outspoken, and politically savvy, having in the past served as the mayor of his town and a member of the provincial legislature in Saskatchewan.
		Schmeiser won a partial victory, where the court held that he did not have to pay Monsanto his profits from his 1998 crop, since the presence of the gene in his crops had not afforded him any advantage and he had made no profits on the crop that were attributable to the invention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeiser (2715 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Seed battle heads to supreme court
		Percy Schmeiser, a sprightly 72-year-old from Bruno, Saskatchewan, has become a hero to the anti-GM movement worldwide for resisting Monsanto's attempts to enforce its patent rights over the seeds it promotes.
		Mr Schmeiser's battle with Monsanto dates back to 1998, when it accused him of planting the company's genetically modified canola (oilseed rape) on his land without permission, and demanded that he pay it the same fee required of those growing GM crops under contract.
		Percy Schmeiser has had to mortgage much of his land to pay his legal fees, and admits that the five-year battle has caused enormous stress, but he says he does not regret it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3116713.stm (643 words)

	NOFA Massachusetts: 2004 Winter Conference: Percy Schmeiser
		Percy Schmeiser spoke at Green Fields Market about his heroic effort to save seed from the destructive force of multi-billion-dollar Monsanto Corporation.
		So Percy is taking the case to the Supreme Court of Canada, encouraged by a Dec. 5, 2002, Canadian Supreme Court decision (regarding the denial of the "Harvard Mouse" patent request) that one cannot patent a "higher life form" - namely anything that comes from a seed.
		Percy said Monsanto has conquered the North American prairie, at least as far as canola and soy seed is concerned, and they are trying to conquer wheat (thus eventually barley and oats as well).
	www.nofamass.org /conferences/2004/percyschmeiser.php (656 words)

	Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
		Webcast of Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser, December 10, 2003 at the Vancouver Public Library.
		Percy Schmeiser has been fighting lawsuits by Monsanto, a Bio Tech giant and major producer of Genetically Modified seeds, for several years.
		Percy Schmeiser, 1 - Saskatchewan farmer sued by Monsanto
	workingtv.com /percyschmeiser.html (105 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Genetic Modification
		Schmeiser argued that a company can't patent a plant - and he relied heavily on a previous case involving the question of whether higher life forms can be patented.
		The court did agree with Schmeiser that the plant is a higher life form and cannot be patented, but said the patent does apply to the gene.
		Schmeiser says he did a field test on three acres of his canola crop and discovered 60 per cent of the canola plants sprayed with Roundup herbicide survived in clumps, thickest in the ditch, thinner deeper into his canola crop.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/genetics_modification/percyschmeiser.html (1680 words)

	GRAIN \| BIO-IPR \| 18 May 2004
		Schmeiser Enterprises Ltd. is a corporation of which he and his wife are the only shareholders and directors, and to which Mr.
		Schmeiser was that he has never purchased Roundup Ready Canola and has never signed a TUA relating to Roundup Ready Canola.
		Schmeiser and his employee Carlyle Moritz hand sprayed Roundup as a normal weed control practice around power poles and in the ditches along the roadway bordering four of Mr.
	www.grain.org /bio-ipr/?id=396 (1111 words)

	PANNA: Monsanto vs. Percy Schmeiser
		The ruling against Schmeiser establishes an even more dangerous precedent because it means that farmers can be forced to pay royalties on GE seeds found on their land, even if they didn't buy the seeds or benefit from them.
		Percy Schmeiser was a victim of genetic pollution from GE crops -- but the court says he must now pay Monsanto US$10,000 for licensing fees and up to US$75,000 in profits from his 1998 crop.
		Percy Schmeiser has filed a counter-suit against Monsanto, but his family faces enormous legal costs that cannot be sustained without outside assistance.
	www.panna.org /resources/panups/panup_20010406.dv.html (898 words)

	The Trouble With Percy
		Schmeiser says the Roundup Ready canola which appeared on his land is a weed and a pollutant.
		Schmeiser has argued that Monsanto's seeds could have fallen onto his property from trucks that pass along the road that borders his farm, or that his crop was pollinated by a neighboring field containing Roundup Ready canola.
		Schmeiser says he had to destroy his seeds, which have taken years to develop, to insure his future crops would be free from contamination.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2000/12/schmeiser.html (2205 words)

	Percy Schmeiser Prepares For Final Battle With Monsanto
		At 72, Schmeiser has become a hero of the global anti-transgenics movement for his legal battle over Monsanto's attempts to enforce its patent rights over the genetically modified seeds the transnational company sells.
		While Schmeiser agreed some of his fields contained Monsanto's GM canola, he said they were contaminated the previous year by pollen from a neighbor's fields and by seeds that blew off trucks on their way to a nearby canola processing plant.
		On the Appeal of the Schmeiser Decision E. Ann Clark, Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON http://w ww.uoguelph.ca/plant/research/homepages/eclark/judge.htm
	www.rense.com /general40/percyschmeiser.htm (1718 words)

	Monsanto vs Canadian Farmer Percy Schmeiser
		Schmeiser is a fifth-generation farmer in Bruno, Saskatchewan.
		The ruling against Schmeiser establishes an even more dangerous precedent because it means that farmers can be forced to pay royalties on GM seeds found on their land, even if they didn't buy the seeds, or benefit from them.
		Percy Schmeiser was a victim of genetic pollution from GM crops - but the court says he must now pay Monsanto $10,000 for licensing fees and up to $75,000 in profits from his 1998 crop.
	www.poptel.org.uk /panap/latest/percy.htm (2540 words)

	ISU Bioethics Outreach--BIB March 2005
		Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto for violation of their intellectual property rights in the Roundup Ready™ canola he raised in his fields.
		Schmeiser has been represented as implying that farmers can be held liable for the unintentional and adventitious presence of patented material in their fields.
		Schmeiser does not imply that farmers do not have a right to save seeds or that they must license or destroy their crop if they discover the presence of patented genes in their fields due to pollen drift or unintentional seed dispersal.
	www.bioethics.iastate.edu /Bioethics_in_Brief/may05.html (1886 words)

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