On 2018-08-11 9:07 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-08-11 9:02 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 8/11/2018 8:52 AM, graham wrote:
>
>>> OTOH, were there any scientists on the jury? A competent lawyer
>>> could convince a jury that homeopathy is scientifically valid.
>>
>> I don't know about the jury, but Monsanto likely had an army of lawyers.
>
> True.Â* They are the company who sued a Canadian farmer for using their
> Roundup resistant product without paying the licensing fee.Â* He never
> bought their product, but it was growing on his property. He felt that
> he was entitled to plant the seeds from the crop he harvested on his
> property.Â* If I ran the world,Â* I would have allowed him to sue Monsanto
> for not controlling their product and allowing it to contaminate other
> farmers' fields.

He maintained that the *seed* had blown in from a neighbour. Yeah,
right! He'd grown it before and knew that it was a licensed product.
This was one case where I was on Monsanto's side, not that I approve of
the company, which is now owned by Bayer.