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Wouldn't the most natural liable party be the farmer who bought Monsanto seeds and planted them in a careless manner? So perhaps Monsanto can sue all these far
by MichaelBurge 9y ago
Wouldn't the most natural liable party be the farmer who bought Monsanto seeds and planted them in a careless manner?
So perhaps Monsanto can sue all these farmers for the increase in crop yield, but they could turn around and sue their neighbor for exposing them to the problem.
- busterarm 9y agoNo. Monsanto reps went to great lengths to tell their seed buyers that their crops would be safe to spray off-label/illegally. On the regulator end they did what they could to look like they were compliant and then encouraged the farmers to do the spraying that caused this.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoIn case anyone thinks this is just conspiracy-mongering about "big bad Monsanto", drug companies are routinely smacked for doing roughly the same thing in the form of promoting off-label uses for their drugs (prescribing them for conditions that they're not approved to treat, which is legal for doctors to do but not for drug companies to promote). It's not that any one company is bad, it's that the incentive is just too strong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_off-label_promotion_pharmaceutical_settlements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_off-label_promotion_ph...