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Recently, California passed a law protecting farmers who have GMOs drift from another field onto theirs, contaminating their crops. Now, Jacobs Farm won a victory in court over a similar matter: pesticide drift. Jacobs Farm grew organic dill, rosemary, and sage, which were contaminated when a company called Western Farm Service, Inc sprayed pesticides nearby.
Jacobs Farm was following the organic rules, so why should they be punished when some bonehead next door sprayed organophosphates (chlorpyrifos, diazinon and dimethoate) that drifted onto their crops?
Even the trace presence of the pesticides made it impossible for Jacobs Farm to sell significant portions of its 2006 and 2007 harvests from its farm.
Fortunately, the jury decided that Jacobs Farm should not have to suffer losses imposed by the pesticide spraying assholes next door, and the company that sprayed now owes them $1 million.
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