GMO
What does GMO stand for?
What is Genetically Modified Organism
Round up is designed to kill this unwanted plant
What are weeds
This legal protection gives an inventor exclusive rights to make, use, and sell their invention for a limited time.
What is a patent
In Ontario or Saskatchewan, when you own farmland, you hold this legal document that proves it.
What is land title, or deed.
The movie Percy vs. Goliath is based on a real Canadian farmer from this province.
What is Saskatchewan
This company first developed the herbicide-resistant “Roundup Ready” soybeans.
What is Monsanto
Roundup works by blocking this essential plant process, which stops the plant from making proteins it needs to grow (term for eating process of plants).
What is Photosynthesis
Unlike land or machinery, a patent protects something you can’t touch — it protects this.
What is an idea, invention or creation
Land, machinery, and buildings are examples of this kind of property. (Not intellectual property...)
What is Physical Property
Some critics argue that patenting life forms like seeds is unfair because it limits this traditional farmer practice.
What is seed saving
The main chemical that “Roundup Ready” crops are designed to tolerate?
Glyphosate
Mono Sodium Glutamate
Di-Hydrogen Monoxide
What is Glyphosate
Some studies and lawsuits have questioned whether Roundup may be linked to this human health concern.
What is Cancer
A farmer can buy and own the land they work on, but if they plant patented GMO seeds, they can’t legally do this with those seeds.
What is save or reuse them (seed saving)
If you own the land, you can decide what to grow — but if the seed is patented, you need this from the company.
What is Permission, a license or a contract.
Percy Schmeiser believed the seeds growing in his fields were his because they came from this natural process.
What is wind drift (blowing onto his property)
These types of farmers often avoid GMOs to maintain their certification standards.
What are Organic Farmers
It’s the reason your store-bought Roundup doesn’t pack the same punch as the farm stuff — it’s been this.
What is Diluted
If a farmer accidentally grows patented seeds without permission — for example, from pollen drift — they could still face this.
What is a lawsuit (be sued)
When a farmer saves seeds from a patented GMO crop, it’s considered this — even if the crop grew on their own land.
What is Patent Violation
This type of property includes ideas, inventions, or designs — like a genetically modified seed.
What is Intellectual property
This is one of the most common goals of GMO crop development — to make crops resistant to these small pests.
What are insects or pests
Farmers and licensed applicators can use stronger Roundup formulas because they’re considered this kind of user.
What are certified or licensed users
The Monsanto Patent on RoundUp Ready Canola (once held by Monsanto) expired after its term. It started in 2002 and ended in 2022. What was the length of the term (standard patent length)?
What is twenty (20) years
If you paid the government for the land, do you own everything on it, or that comes on it?
What is - no.
Land, machinery, and buildings are examples of this kind of property. (Not intellectual property...)
What is Physical property