Won’t Measure H lead to more intrusion into our private life?
Measure H does not mean there will be snooping around on people’s land. Plants and animals will be inspected as they enter the county. One thing that we can be sure of if Measure H does not pass, and if GE crops are grown in Mendocino county, is that there will be intrusion by the industry into our private lives. Pinkerton private detective agency, which used to supply employers with auxiliaries to break trade unions, was been hired by Monsanto to check that farmers across North America are not saving seeds. Saving seeds is forbidden under the ‘Technology Use Agreement’, which also allows the company to access farmers’ land to take plant samples during a three-year period after the genetically engineered seed has been purchased. A freephone hotline was set up to encourage farmers to tell on their neighbours for seed-saving. By late 1998, more than 475 farmers in the United States and Canada had already been sued by Monsanto or are awaiting lawsuits for allegedly breaking their contract
