1.) Can anyone give me the citation for a court case where Monsanto (orI see several people have already sent links about this.
others) won on the "ownership" issue of drifted pollen?
2) Of course all corns we eat today are genetically modified if one wantsThis is one of those cases where the term may have different technical meanings depending on who's using it. "Genetic modification" apparently has been used for many years as a technical term to apply to what is thought of by most people as traditional breeding. However there is a technical definition for the way in which it's used by most people arguing about it today; in fact, there's now a legal definition. I quote from the USDA organic standards, in which these methods are being defined so they can be forbidden. (To further complicate the issue, these standards define these specifically, and confusingly, as "excluded methods". I don't know who came up with this term, which is used by nobody I've ever heard of except USDA. It makes little sense, especially as other things besides GMO's are also excluded from organic growing, but only GMO's are in the definition.) Anyway, here's the legal definition:
to be technical about it - hybridising modifies the genetics. Inserting by
mechanical or chemical means new genes is what I guess I would define GM
plants to be - does someone else have a better definition I could use?
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