No it isn't. Monsanto has never sued anyone for unintentional infringement. If you want to prove me wrong, all you have to do is cite a single example of them doing so.

Your post includes two links, both of which point to anti-Monsanto rants. They both describe the case of Percy Schmeiser, who has admitted in court to intentional and deliberate infringement of Monsanto's patents.

So all you need is a single example of someone sued for unintentional infringement to prove me wrong.

BP has already paid out tens of billions in fines and compensation. There are plenty more lawsuits in the pipeline, with a potential final payout of about $90 billion. That is an immense amount of money, far more than the GDP of most countries. You can be pretty sure that the oil companies are going to be a lot more careful in the future.

Nope, I just enjoy being a contrarian. On other days I have defended fracking, high frequency traders, etc. When everybody is jumping on a politically correct bandwagon, someone should point out when there are no wheels on the wagon.

Sure. I have posted this citation elsewhere, but I will repeat it here so this thread is not left dangling. From the cited article: Bowman also bought seeds from a local commodity seed provider and planted a second crop. Finding that the majority of seeds purchased from the local provider were herbicide resistant, Bowman also treated them with herbicide.

He has openly admitted that he used glyphosate on the crops grown from the commodity seeds. His defense is that he as a right to do so, not that he didn't do it.

Sure, here you go. From the citation: Bowman also bought seeds from a local commodity seed provider and planted a second crop. Finding that the majority of seeds purchased from the local provider were herbicide resistant, Bowman also treated them with herbicide.

So he bought commodity seeds, sprayed them with glyphosate to kill the non-GMO plants, and then harvested the pure GMO seeds to plant the following year. Bowman has not denied any of that, but has instead claimed that he had a right to do it.

I am not defending Monsanto. I am attacking dishonesty and false allegations. There is no need to defend their "evil practices" when neither you nor anyone else seems to have any evidence that they actually engaged in those practices. If you disagree then cite an example .

Nope. I am not "pro-Monsanto", I am "anti-bullshit". As I write this, there are over 200 posts, many of them making allegations without a single citation or reference to back them up. Just because hating Monsanto is "politically correct" doesn't make it okay to just make crap up, and spread falsehoods. We should have higher standards than that.

So instead of impugning my integrity, why don't you cite a single example that refutes what I have said: That Monsanto has never sued anyone for unintentionally infringing their GMO patents. I don't know for certain if that is true. All I am saying is that I don't know of a single instance of it happening. And apparently neither do you.

Someone can be both a soldier and a gamer.

He asked for an example of someone sued for unintentional infringement. What he got as an example of someone sued for blatant, willful, and intentional infringement. That is not quite the same thing.

The person cited in your link, Percy Schmeiser, not only intentionally planted Monsanto patented seeds, but admitted doing it.

So I am still waiting for a single citation for Monsanto suing anyone for unintentional infringement.

Can you please cite a single instance of this actually happening? I have heard many, many people claim this, but when asked for an actual example, they never have one.

That is a load of crap. They sprayed their crops with glyphosate! There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a farmer to do that unless he knew he had GMO seeds. This was intentional and willful infringement.

The farmers knew it was Monsanto "tainted" because they sprayed the crop with glyphosate. That makes no sense whatsoever unless they knew it was GMO.

Actually, if you search, you will find precisely zero cases where this happened. If you want to prove me wrong, then cite one case where a farmer was sued for unintentional infringement.

But GMO crops didn't just "grow alone" by themselves. The infringing farmers took concerted action, over several years, to isolate and propagate the seeds, and then benefited from the patented gene by spraying their fields with glyphosate. That is something that someone who believed they had non-GMO seeds would not do, because it would kill their crop. .

Most of the subsidies are Federal, not state. So this is an "American" problem, not a Californian problem. But anyway, as a Californian, I thank you for your contribution to our state's economy.