75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court

Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.... by smackay on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:39AM (#5196366)

As far as I know Roundup is a general use herbicide. If it was only licensed for use with Monsanto's GM products then I think Monsanto would have a case - assuming there were equivalent non-Monsanto herbicides freely available. I doubt Monsanto would be pretty happy about that however.

UPDATE: There was supposed to be some form of "terminator" gene included in the GM products to explicitly prevent generation two seeds from being replanted. I guess since we are talking about law-suits that did not really work as expected.

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Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.... by ihnorton on Sunday February 10, 2013 @09:37AM (#5196490)

Actually, after a serious public kerfuffle, Monsanto pledged not to use this technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol...

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Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.... by MarkMc on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:24PM (#5217268)

I'm curious to know what you mean by 'equivalent non-Monsanto herbicides'. Roundup is specifically designed kill everything except Monsanto's GM crops. Are you saying that farmers with contaminated fields should be able to use a non-Monsanto herbicide which is specifically designed to avoid killing Monsanto's GM crops?

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Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.... by skosuri on Sunday February 10, 2013 @12:34PM (#5197055)

Glyphosphate (Roundup) is a now off-patent general herbicide that will pretty much kill everything (even your crop) unless it is genetically modified a la Monsanto's RoundUp ready crops. This is often how Monsanto finds people to sue; people that buy Roundup without buying the seeds.

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