defend the past twelve years, Louise and Percy Schmeiser, farmers in Canada, the function of the genetic engineering industry in their country. In 2007 she received for her commitment to the prestigious Right Livelihood Award. On their European tour, they visited last Friday, the SPES future Academy. In Schlierbach stressed the important work of Percy Schmeiser SPES for sustainable development in Austria and beyond.
Percy Schmeiser filled stadiums and tents and shakes the man with the story of his fight against the genetic engineering industry awake. The former mayor of a small community and member of parliament in Canada, built nearly 60 years of rape before his fields were contaminated with genetically modified seeds by wind and pollen. The manufacturer of the seed, Monsanto claimed to display a portion of the harvest and sued Schmeiser for patent infringement.
a yearlong court battle ensued. Schmeiser had this house, yard and ground, and thus used their own existence. He was able to achieve "a personal" victory and did not have to pay Monsanto's court costs. He then became the worldwide leader of the critics of genetic engineering and was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize. Since then the couple pulls Schmeiser around the world and is encouraging, is not so easy to suspend the seed industry. Genetic engineering, his message had been led, in agriculture never to fight hunger. It serves only to control of patents and farmers win. Finally, it should make agriculture depends on the genetic engineering industry.
In Canada, there are now no longer guaranteed GM-free canola. For organic farmers, therefore, is the cultivation of rape no longer possible for GMO contamination in organic farming are strictly prohibited.
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