The US State of California just passed a law to protect Californian farmers from lawsuits as they are unable to prevent the inevitable – the drift of GM pollen and seed onto their land, and contamination of their non-GM crops. See: http://www.gepolicyalliance.org/action_alert_support_ab541.h tm Law AB 541 International law expert Duncan Currie recently commented on Monsanto's Australian GM canola contract. He warned that land values may be affected as farmers who sign the seed contract are not permitted to sell their land for up to two years after the contract expires, unless the new owner also signs with Monsanto. The original contractual obligations pass to the new landholder who may be liable for any previous breaches or contamination events. Monsanto also has the right to sue any farmer found with its patented GM canola seed. A landowner must prove contamination, not theft, is responsible. Monsanto also keeps the right to: "inspect, take samples and test all of the grower's owned and/or leased fields and storage bins" and to get copies of all documents for three years after GM canola is bought. Australian governments must ban commercial GM canola, at least until similar laws are enacted here to protect farmers and make the owners of GM technology strictly liable. Brumby and Helper refuse to set up a GM crop site register to protect other rural industries and hay made from failed GM canola - that Monsanto concedes will contain viable seed, will be unlabelled. It will carry GM contamination across the landscape.

What a bunch of Neanderthals! We are testing Canola---in Victoria! It's enough to make you split your sides! Canola has been tested for twenty five years! Oh! but that's not good enough for we Victorians! Well, listen to what retired Chief Scientist of the National Water Commission, Alan Chartres had to say. After twenty five years of testing only four crops, Cotton, Canola, Soy and Corn have emerged with only two traits- Herbicide tolerance and inbuilt insect toxins. Billions of dollars spent for this! Promises of salt tolerance and drought resistance have proved non existent! Bountiful crops? No more so than non GM crops, but of course if anyone flukes a good crop we will have a dozen photographers on hand to witness this miracle! Be serious for heavens sake! This hasn't happened anywhere in the world in the last twenty five years, but some optomistic country boys think it's going to happen here! Try some real research, instead of Monsanto propaganda. You may well get a good crop or two but no better than any good farmer could have got without becoming a slave to Monsanto seed and their ever increasing prices. Two or three years of Roundup on your soil and it won't be fit to grow anything else. Do the research! Argentina, India, Indonesia. etc etc etc

"THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO" is worth watching for further research. they who control the food control the population