Farmer couple brings Monsanto to its knees
percy and louise schmeiser dragged biotech giant Monsanto to court in 2005 for contaminating their organic rapeseed farm in Canada. The couple was in Delhi recently to attend a conference on genetically modified organism or GMO. savvy soumya misra spoke to the couple, who are also the recipient of Right Livelihood Award, on their crusade for justice.
Tracing GM contamination
It is impossible to control cross pollination or seed blown in the wind. In 2005, we noticed some rapeseed plants grown in a nearby field. No rapeseed was grown on that field in the last six-seven years. We began watching our field closely. Being seed developers, we realized there was a contamination. We conducted a few tests and found that there was Monsanto