awrobot

I know you said that you are not associated with Big Ag -- I am aware, also, that the concern I express here is most commonly associated with the larger companies, but nevertheless; Aside from the actual chemical breakdown, which I don't claim to be an expert in, what concerns me the most is the idea of loss of small-farm ownership through cross-pollination. I imagine that, though you are not affiliated with some of the major offenders, if a GMO crop produced by your company happened to pollinate a neighboring farm and you were aware of it, you would want the contaminated plants to be removed, lest the farmer benefit from the incident without paying for the rights to the plant or pollen. Do you feel there is anything that can be done (or is being done) to prevent this? To keep the farmer from being penalized? Or, for that matter, to keep the farmer's crop from contamination in the first place? Assume, perhaps, that he is an organic farmer, to boot -- suddenly, his entire crop is gone to waste, completely unmarketable as organic with the introduced component.