Jeri, according to "The Reunion" on BBC Radio4 this morning, Monsanto seeds were blown onto innocent farmers' fields while being transported, and grew. Monsanto then prosecuted hundreds of farmers for growing those plants without a licence and it took some twenty years for the convictions to be quashed.
If that is the case, it sounds odd to me. Were the seeds packed insecurely in leaking sacks? How did Monsanto know where their seeds were growing, unless it was a deliberate ploy to target those fields and then retrieve samples in order to prosecute the farmers?