Jury Says: Bayer GM Rice Contaminated Rice Crops in Neighboring Louisiana Fields

Bayer in cooperation with LSU researchers receiving funding from Bayer, found guilty of damaging neighboring fields. Bayer was researching a crop modified to resist a Bayer pesticide similar to how Monsanto has used GM methods to make Round Up ready corn. Illustrates the probvlem is not just GM - the problem is the nexus of cross interests between Bayer, or Monsanto with the FDA and with university "scientists" whose labs depend upon industry funding support, as well as FDA support, and US Congress members who write in supports for these methods and companies into a variety of laws and regulations, as well as international aid regulations.

clipped from www.stltoday.com $2 million verdict against Bayer CropScience Bayer CropScience LP must pay about $2 million for losses sustained by two Missouri farmers when an experimental variety of rice the company was testing cross-bred with their crops, a federal jury ruled. Bayer and Louisiana State University had been testing the rice, bred to be resistant to Bayer's Liberty-brand herbicide, at a school-run facility in Crowley, La. The variety eventually "contaminated" more than 30 percent of U.S. ricelands, Don Downing, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said at the start of the trial.