Bayer blames god and farmers for GE rice contaminating US rice supply

[nosmokes]

of course it couldn't have anything to do w/bayer dealing with an unapproved/illegal rice in the first damn place, huh? nope, because a coporation surely can do no evil when fucking with our food supply for more profit, right? nosmokes
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original-washington post

Firm Blames Farmers, 'Act of God' for Rice Contamination

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 22, 2006; A05

The company that created the experimental variety of genetically engineered rice found this summer to have contaminated the U.S. rice supply contends that rice farmers and an "act of God" are to blame for the inadvertent release of the unapproved crop.

Those are among the assertions by Bayer CropScience of Research Triangle Park, N.C., in response to a class-action lawsuit filed by hundreds of farmers in Arkansas and Missouri.

The 30-page response offers the first clue to how the company plans to defend itself against the 15 class-action lawsuits filed by farmers, who allege that they stand to lose millions of dollars because of the contamination.

Lawyers for the farmers said they had expected the company to deny responsibility, but were offended by its attempt to blame farmers. The lawyers said their clients had no reason to suspect that the seeds they were planting in recent years were contaminated by Bayer's unapproved variety.

"The farmers are innocent victims," said Don Downing, a principal at Gray, Ritter & Graham PC, the St. Louis firm that filed the largest suit, in U.S. District Court in eastern Missouri.
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complete articlehere

[sam sarrha]

1. but gOD is Good... No??

[bullimiami]

2. they want to patent and control and profit off it and make themselves the

"owner" of the crops but they dont want any responsiblity for unleashing these frankenseeds.

[Trillo]

3. Congress could: strike "Act of God" clauses,

add GMO notification on packaged food labels if any contained therein.

[JVS]

4. I guess you have to play God to recognize his handiwork

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Fuck the G-d excuses....

Incompetient hacks have no one to blame but theirselves. Grow some balls already and admit to the wrong doing; what asshats.