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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • March 31, 2001
    ``A multinational biotech company has successfully sued a Saskatchewan [Canada] farmer for growing its special canola without a licence. The case raised debate over new food technology.

    ``Monsanto took Percy Schmeiser of Bruno, Sask. to court for illegally using the company's genetically modified and pesticide-resistant canola seeds....

    ``Alan McHughen, an author and plant geneticist, says the ruling clarifies that farmers can't grow genetically modified seed they haven't paid for, and if they find it growing on their land, they must destroy it.''

    Full story at CBC News:
    http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/03/29/monsanto_schmeiser010329

    It'd be interesting to see if Monsanto's ``seed license'' resembles a software EULA. Otherwise, the parallels are striking.

    Reference by Slashdot.org.

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Submitted by Nobody ; posted on Monday, February 17, 2003
We dont want to hear any thing like GM seeds.

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Submitted by Nobody ; posted on Monday, February 17, 2003
We dont want to hear any thing like GM seeds.

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