PERCY SCHMEISER - DAVID VERSUS MONSANTO

Imagine that a storm blows across your garden and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few days later, representatives of a multi-national corporate group pay you a visit at home, demand that you surrender your vegetables - and simultaneously file a criminal complaint against you, resulting in a fine of
€ 20.000,00 for the illegal use of patented and genetically-manipulated seeds.
What's more: The court finds for the corporate group!
Yet you fight back...

This short story is no utopia rather, around the world, the bitter truth. It is also the true experience of the family of Percy und Louise Schmeiser in Canada, also winners of the Alternative Nobel Prize, who meanwhile have been fighting the chemicals and seed manufacturer Monsanto since 1996. Nowadays, nearly three-fourths of genetically-manipulated plants harvested worldwide originate from
Monsanto labs. Monsanto is a U.S.-based corporate group which calls dismal inventions such as DDT, PCB and Agent Orange its own. In its effort to gain absolute hegemony over plants - from the field all the way to the consumer's plate - Monsanto knows no qualms. The farmers Troy Rush, David Runyon and Marc Loisell also learned the hard way what it means to be confronted with Monsanto's methods of doing business, as did thousands of other farmers worldwide.

They and the Schmeisers are not just fighting against Monsanto and with that, for the continuation of their livelihood as farmers but also for the right to freedom of speech and the right to their property.

Yet above all, they are campaigning for the future of their children and grandchildren so that they, too, will have a chance to grow up in a world without genetically-manipulated food.

This film is reassuring.
Reassuring to all who fear that as an individual, no one would have any power to confront policymakers, large corporations or the business world.
"David vs. Monsanto" proves the opposite.

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[Daniel Voglesong]

Percy Schmeiser, Organic Farmer from Canada is a Hero for fignting MONSANTO and its Genetic Modified/GMOseeds and toxic "ROUNDUP" herbicide. MONSANTO "Roundup Ready Corn /MON810" Genetic Corn/Maize has been banned for planting in GERMANY,

[Novagreyhound]

Down with Monsanto! Power to farmers like this man. We all need to rally behind him and those like him.

[larry asbury]

LABETTE county Kansas,,,we are on your side,,,,send this Monsanto dude our way

[Kazimiera Janina Cottam]

Response to CouldNotCareLes: You must be mentally retarded to write such an abominable crap. Do you work for Monsanto? To suggest that Shmeiser is lying is an abomination. He is probably among the most intelligent, honourable and insightful people in Canada. We all owe him a great deal.

[Bill Moir]

ok, come and get your fucking freaky frankenplants out of my field and compensate me financially x 2 for the inconvenience. pure evil, look out when your eating a tomato with flounder dna put there by fucking around with bacteria cells and pumped full of roundup and seeds that can't reproduce, yum yum

[chemcloudsgather]

this guy should have sued Monsanto for Monsanto's seed blowing on his property

fuck Monsanto and there DEATH Seeds

[CouldNotCareLes]

Ever wonder why farmers still buy Monsanto products?

Les

[thenicknicknick]

Go Monsanto, i mean Percy!

[vislandblues]

you are way too stupid to know the truth ,asshole!

[936Dancer]

Truth?????

[CouldNotCareLes]

- I feel no shame for telling the truth.

Les

[936Dancer]

SHAME on you, Les!