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by kgwgk 2940 days ago
https://monsanto.com/company/media/statements/gmo-contaminat...

Myth: Monsanto sues farmers when GM seed is accidentally in their fields.

Fact: Monsanto has never sued a farmer when trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits were present in the farmer’s field as an accident or as a result of inadvertent means.

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While I appreciate that you've provided a source, I am disinclined to trust Monsanto on matters concerning themselves.
You don't have to trust Monsanto. If people were sued as was alleged, there are public records of these lawsuits. To date, no one has provided a record of one.
Exactly. "But this came from Monsanto" discredits nothing.

Monsanto has provided a list of factual statements. If you don't trust them, you can fact-check them. You either are going to have proof that they are lying, or proof that they are telling the truth.

Refusing to accept what Monsanto says by virtue of them being Monsanto is, again, just another part of the anti-GMO hysteria...

Do you have another source?
https://www.biofortified.org/2015/12/lawsuits-for-inadverten...

"To conclude this series, I have found no evidence that farmers are sued by Monsanto for inadvertent contamination. The lawsuits that I examined were for cases where farmers knowingly and admittedly used Monsanto seeds without licensing contracts."

The claim is that it never happened. Anybody can be a source for that :)

If it’s happened, then there should be some credible source detailing the case in which it happened. No such source exists.

Monsanto has presented you with a list of factual statements. If you believe them to be inaccurate, you have an ocean of public records at your disposal that would make doing so very easy.

Of course, nobody has ever debunked this page, because there's nothing to debunk.