$2 million verdict against Bayer CropScience - STLtoday.com - http://www.stltoday.com/stltoda...
Dec 6, 2009
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"Bayer CropScience LP must pay about $2 million for losses sustained by two Missouri farmers when an experimental variety of rice the company was testing cross-bred with their crops, a federal jury ruled."
- Tracy
"The variety eventually "contaminated" more than 30 percent of U.S. ricelands, Don Downing, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said at the start of the trial."
- Tracy
Tick tock. Looking more likely that genetically engineered crops could trigger a collapse of the industrial food system. A bias towards optimism and human errors capable of self-replication does not bode well.
- Tracy