The plaintiffs, who represent over 270,000 individuals, hope that the courts will step in where the government has failed to act. "Monsanto and the biotechnology industry have made great investments in our executive and legislative branches through campaign contributions and powerful lobbyists in Washington," said Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute, an advocate for small, organic farms, and one of the plaintiffs. "Family-scale farmers desperately need the judiciary branch of our government to balance the power Monsanto is able to wield."
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