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Percy Schmeiser, who fought against Monsanto, is dead at 89

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Percy Schmeiser, who fought against Monsanto, is dead at 89

Percy Schmeiser, whose name became synonymous with the legal fight against patent rights centred around Monsanto’s genetically modified canola, has died.

John Schmeiser told CBC his father died Tuesday at the age of 89. Schmeiser had Parkinson’s disease.

The Saskatchewan farmer became famous in the late 1990s after agrochemical giant Monsanto took him to court. The company had found its genetically modified canola in Schmeiser’s field, but he had never paid for the right to grow it.

Schmeiser insisted the seeds had blown onto his field in the wind and that he owned them.  Monsanto sued him, and in the end, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the farmer had knowingly violated Monsanto’s patent.

Originally posted by CBC news on Oct 14, 2020 here

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