Tuesday, December 21

Biotech Crops Pose Legal Issues

"A farmer whose pollen drifts on the wind from his cornfield to a neighbor's could face a lawsuit from a multinational corporation.

A farmer who saves his own seed and plants it the next year, as many have done for generations, could also be sued.

These are real risks for the thousands of North Carolina farmers growing genetically modified crops, such as soybeans, corn and cotton plants that have been bred to withstand weed killers, according to a new report from farm advocacy groups."

From newsobserver.com.

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