<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is a rather interesting, and troubling, legal outcome in Australia. The judge ruled that the <u>organic</u> farmer may not sue his neighbor growing GMO crops, who contaminated the organic farmer's fields, because "winds blowing" the GMO contamination had not been an "outcome intended" by the GM farmer.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Yet in other countries Monsanto <i>has successfully sued farmers</i> whose fields were contaminated by GM seeds blown in from neighbors farms, for "illegally" growing GM crops when they had not paid for the seeds!<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Looks like the GM0 corporate structure has judiciaries doing their bidding everywhere. <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>CHUCK SEARCY<br>
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</font></i></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><strong><a href="http://isaaa.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=90d9912fca3d624d294e24b28&id=e0a50c988b&e=9c14d9ad52" target="_blank">Australian GM Farmer Wins Landmark Case</a></strong></font>
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Michael Baxter, a farmer accused of contaminating his neighbor's crops with genetically modified (GM) <a href="http://isaaa.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=90d9912fca3d624d294e24b28&id=a0fa6df693&e=9c14d9ad52" target="_blank">canola</a>
has won a landmark case in the West Australian Supreme Court. Baxter
was sued by his neighbor Steve Marsh, an organic certified farmer who
alleged that his farm in the Great Southern region was contaminated by
GM material blown onto his property from Baxter's land. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Marsh
claimed that the contamination caused him to lose his organic
certification on more than half his property in Kojonup, south of Perth,
for almost three years. But Justice Kenneth Martin said Mr. Baxter
could not be held responsible just for growing a <a href="http://isaaa.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=90d9912fca3d624d294e24b28&id=632e749250&e=9c14d9ad52" target="_blank">GM crop</a> in a <a href="http://isaaa.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90d9912fca3d624d294e24b28&id=a3da1c27b2&e=9c14d9ad52" target="_blank">conventional</a>
way. Justice Martin added in his judgment summary that the ends of
season winds and the blowing of swathes from Sevenoaks eastwards into
Eagle Rest had not been an outcome intended by Mr. Baxter and that he
was not to be held responsible as a broadacre farmer merely for growing a
lawful GM crop and choosing to adopt a harvest methodology (swathing)
which was entirely orthodox in its implementation. </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more details, read the news release from the Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia: <a href="http://isaaa.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=90d9912fca3d624d294e24b28&id=4d08378f3f&e=9c14d9ad52" target="_blank">http://www.abca.com.au/2014/05/aus-gm-farmer-wins-landmark-case/</a>. The verdict can be found here: <a href="http://isaaa.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90d9912fca3d624d294e24b28&id=0e037d170e&e=9c14d9ad52" target="_blank">http://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/</a>.</span></p>
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