This is from Baker Creek Seeds..a company founded by 2 homeschoolers, who met, married and had a dream.  Their company is amazing!  One of the things I really admire is that they have a restaurant where they serve their own organic veggies..and it is pay by donation..so EVERYONE can eat there.

Anyway, here is a recent interview with Percy Schmeiser

http://rareseeds.com/blog/gardening/a-conversation-with-percy-schme...

Everyone knows that an oil spill is not good for the environment. Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser has been traveling the world for years, spreading the word that GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are just as detrimental—to the land, wildlife, farmers, our food supply, and to us.

Percy’s story is a famous one. He’s the canola farmer who battled the chemical company Monsanto for a decade and received, with his wife, Louise, the Right Livelihood Award in 1997 for fighting to defend biodiversity, the rights of farmers, and the future of seeds.

Initially, in 1998, Monsanto took the Schmeisers to court for patent infringement, claiming that they were growing the biotech giant’s patented GMO canola. It didn’t matter, according to Canadian patent law, that Monsanto’s GMO canola, freshly cut on a nearby farmer’s land, had drifted onto the couple’s farm and that they had no control over the ensuing GMO canola plants sprouting there. Nor did it matter that Percy and Louise had spent 50 years growing non-GMO canola crops on their land, working as seed developers and researching disease control. According to Canadian patent law, Monsanto could take the couple’s entire crop from them or make them destroy it. According to patent law, Monsanto now owned the crop.

For 10 years, the Schmeisers were in and out of court with Monsanto, fighting to keep their farmland, farm equipment and home as well as fending off a million-dollar lawsuit Monsanto filed against them claiming punitive damages. According to Percy, during the course of these legal battles, he and his wife were subjected to threats by the biotech giant and asked to sign release forms stating that they could never take Monsanto to court, no matter how much the company’s GMO plants contaminated their farm. These release forms also stated that—if the Schmeisers signed them—they would lose their freedom of speech, they would not be permitted to talk about the terms of their settlement with Monsanto. (For more details, visithttp://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/17/percy_schmeiser_vs_monsanto_t....)

and more of the article at the link.

I really admire him, the farmer groups that are now suing Monsanto, and most especially,  Dr. Vandana Shiva who has taken a stand since very early on to tell people what this corporation is doing to agriculture around the world.  I hope everyone here votes with their pocketbooks as well and feeds themselves and their families as non GMO as possible.