Monsanto's Lawsuits Against Farmers

My paper is about Monsanto’s lawsuits against farmers. I think that

Monsanto is still a problem for many family farms in America. To solve this problem

I think that the people that are involved in approving the lawsuits need actually look

at the situation instead of the money. A majority of the problem is that Monsanto is a

huge company that just keeps getting bigger with a ton of money behind it and the

farmers that they are up against are just small family farms that don’t have the

money to fight the lawsuits that are thrown at them. Usually the farmers just pay the

fine instead of fighting the lawsuits because it is cheaper to just pay the fine than it

is to stand up and try to prove that you didn’t do anything wrong. Especially …show more content…
In 1996 the original Monsanto acquires the

plant biotechnology assets of Agracetus and purchases an interest in Calgene,

another biotech research company and also in 1996, Monsanto introduces its first

biotech seeds to the market: Roundup Ready® soybeans with in-seed herbicide

tolerance and Bollgard® insect-resistant cotton. The reason that this is important is

because the family farmers are getting lawsuits put on them because of the

Monsanto seed patents. (monsanto.com)

A lot of people are starting to say that Monsanto is taking freedom away from

family farmers. People are starting to feel that Monsanto is gaining monopoly, the

exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service,

over the world’s food crops and its control over seeds is a threat.

(topsecretwriters.com) From 1997 to present day, Monsanto has filed lawsuits

against an average of 9 farmers per year for 16 years because the farmers

“improperly reused their patented seeds.” Since they started they haven’t lost a

single case they they have filed. There have also been farmers that have tried to