The terms freedom and rights continue to swirl as politicians hit the campaign trail, but for farmers across America these words represent their 20-year plight against agribusinesses.
This suit brings the GMO seed debate to a boiling point, as GMOs have been labeled as dangerous with a high potential to contaminate other crops in developed nations, except for the US. Now as the USDA continues to aid agribusiness through expedited approval of GMOs and their byproducts, the other side of the battle has finally garnered enough money and courage to take on the agribusiness behemoth. Prior to this suit, farmers risked being sued by Monsanto’s powerful legal department when the GMO seed trespassed and contaminated their fields, a rather perverse precedent that is finally being questioned in the courtrooms on a large-scale.
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