Percy Schmeiser, a farmer of Bruno, Saskatchewan is once again duking it out in the courts with Monsanto. Many people will recognize farmer Percy Schmeiser from the film The Future of Food which included mention of his first court battle when Monsanto sued him for "growing" GMO seed in his fields. Schmeiser claimed the seed blew into his field and contaminated his crop. The Guardian reports Schmeiser and his wife, Louise, are suing for the C$600 (GBP300) it cost to hire contractors to dig up several of Monsanto's GM oilseed rape plants he found growing in a field he was preparing for a mustard crop in 2005. Schmeiser argues the stray plants are pollution, and the polluter should pay. The company refused unless he agreed not to talk about it.

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