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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-align: center;">Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain farming regions to be known as the</span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> ‘suicide belt’</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-align: center;">, Monsanto has been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges. The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant profits each year on a global scale from “renewal” seed harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous year’s harvest.</span></div><img src="http://www.realfarmacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/farmers-sue-monsanto.jpg" /><br />
<center style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The practice of using renewal seeds dates back to ancient times, but Monsanto seeks to collect massive royalties and put an end to the practice. Why? Because Monsanto owns the very patent to the genetically modified seed, and is charging the farmers not only for the original crops, but the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">later harvests as well</em>. Eventually, the royalties compound and many farmers begin to struggle with even keeping their farm afloat. It is for this reason that India slammed Monsanto with groundbreaking  'bio-piracy' charges  in an effort to stop Monsanto from ‘patenting life’.</center><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 23px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Jane Berwanger, a lawyer for the farmers who went on record regarding the case, told the Associated Press:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; color: #777777; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 9px 20px 0px 19px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 23px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">“Monsanto gets paid when it sell the seeds. The law gives producers the right to multiply the seeds they buy and nowhere in the world is there a requirement to pay (again). Producers are in effect paying a <strong style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">private tax on production</strong>.”</div></blockquote>

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5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion

Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Mons...

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5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion

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