Monsanto

SASKATOON (CP) - A Saskatchewan farmer has lost his legal battle with a U.S. biotech giant, but his supporters say they'll push to make the fight against genetically modified crops an election issue. The Supreme Court of Canada sided with Monsanto on Friday in the firm''s lopsided patent fight against Percy Schmeiser. The court ruled 5-4 that Monsanto holds a valid patent on a gene it inserted into canola plants to make them resistant to Roundup herbicide, and that Schmeiser infringed the patent by knowingly planting the Roundup Ready seeds.

These children''s families suffer fever and vomiting and their horses are dying. They blame GM crops and a scientist is backing them. What price Frankenstein foods now, Mr. Blair....''Councillor Boy Amarille has an image problem. It is election year and the politician farmer is accused of inadvertently poisoning more than 50 men, women and chldren in his rural constitutency.