Sorry but ever since the dawn of man's use of agriculture, farmers would save a portion for their own seed for the next year. With companies now manufacturing a manipulated genetic altered product that will freely infect other fields, there by granting them a right to a royalty. So you can have a farmer field down wind that will now be contaminated by Monsanto pollen giving them now, a right to royalties? So by your logic a farmer with Heifer calf's or Sow's like a Angeln Saddleback must pay a royalty to the developer of the breed when they have young? Your Huskey or Siamese Cat when it has a litter?
The history of agriculture is one of man's attempts to change alter plants for the betterment of all. Do you think wheat, corn were developed so a King could get richer? I think it was only after agriculture that greed arouse and a few saw a way to use it for power.
http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
""Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Saskatchewan Canada, whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's genetically engineered Round-Up Ready Canola by pollen from a nearby farm. Monsanto says it doesn't matter how the contamination took place, and is therefore demanding Schmeiser pay their Technology Fee (the fee farmers must pay to grow Monsanto's genetically engineered products). According to Schmeiser, "I never had anything to do with Monsanto, outside of buying chemicals. I never signed a contract.
If I would go to St. Louis (Monsanto Headquarters) and contaminate their plots - destroy what they have worked on for 40 years - I think I would be put in jail and the key thrown away."
Rodney Nelson's family farm is being forced into a similar lawsuit by Monsanto.
Support Schmeiser, Nelson and hundreds of other farmers who are being forced to pay Monsanto to have their fields contaminated by genetically modified organisms. ""
Barney