Percy Schmeiser has been telling his story around the world, and at 77 years old, he’s quite the speaker. Last night, the Kootenay Food Strategy Society, GE Free BC and the local radio station CJLY with Deconstructing Dinner, hosted a night with Percy at the Brilliant Cultural Centre.
The video below shows Percy talking about one of Monsanto’s techniques for determining if a farm is growing their genetically modified canola.
For those who are interested in more, listen in to this mp3 from Deconstructing Dinner featuring Maude Barlow (who also recently spoke in Castlegar) and Percy Schmeiser.
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That is absolutely shocking! That is absolutely shocking! With GM contamination having happened all over the world, how will farmers protect themselves against this?
The law in Canada provides The law in Canada provides little to no protection against the Patent Rights of a company like Monsanto to contaminate your field then claim full rights over the whole field - even if the contamination is only 1%.
It sounds absolutely ludicrous, but the genes are what is patented, and whereever they are present, it is Monsanto’s property. Which begs the question, and Percy did touch on this - can these genes pass through to higher lifeforms, birds, bees , bugs, even humans? Percy’s answer is yes.