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Farmer Percy Schmeiser speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 19, 2004. In 1997, Monsanto accused him of stealing the company's genetically modified seed after finding its patented gene in Schmeiser's canola plants. The Saskatchewan man claims the Monsanto seeds blew into his crop from a neighboring farm.
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