On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:57:05 -0700 Conrad Berube
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>
> * sue the neighboring grower and transgenic seed producer
> for contaminating your seed crop with "pesticide drift"
> (I would think that a strong case could be made here)
>
> * start selling the transgenic seed derived from your own
>lands
> undercutting the originator and bypassing all their R&D
>costs
> and make some cash (if transgenic seed producers are going
> to claim proprietorship on spliced-in genes then they'll
> have to take financial responsibility for making sure the
> genes don't contaminate adjoining lands where the same crop
>is
>grown--unless labelling guidelines have been violated by whoever
> out in the crop of transgenic seed, in which case I think
>the
> latter would be legally responsible-- as is the case with
>conventional pesticide drift-- except in this case it would
> likely be much easier to prove where the transgenic pollen
>came
> from until these products become more widespread.
Oh, good grief!! Just what we need -- more ideas for law-suits! We have
enough members of the legal "profession" coming up with them already! I
wish all you contentious litigious characters severe cases of Varroa and
AFB in all your colonies.
Walter Weller
(retired attorney)