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Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. "//Since the mid‑ 1990s, Monsanto indicates that it has filed suit against 145 individual U.S. farmers for patent infringement and/or breach of contract in connection with its genetically engineered seed but has proceeded through trial against only eleven farmers, all of which it won. The Center for Food Safety has listed 112 lawsuits by Monsanto against farmers for claims of seed patent violations. The usual claim involves violation of a technology agreement that prohibits farmers from saving seed from one season's crop to plant the next. One farmer received an eight-month prison sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud during litigation with Monsanto in addition to having to pay damages."// The Monsanto Company believes that any seed they sell you may only be used once. You may not save and clean left over seed and plant again the next year. If Monsanto finds their crop growing in a field that was not authorized, there are some serious consequences. What they don't realize, or what they don't care about, is that mother nature is going to have some say in where the seeds end up. The wind very easily carries seeds that sit on the top soil before working them selves in the ground. That's how volunteer corn happens. Monsanto believes that no matter the circumstances, their Genetically Modified crops should not grow ANYWHERE than where they say. Ridiculous idea right?

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