Listening test

1- What is Percy Schmeiser’s problem? /4

Monsanto products have been found in his crops, but he didn't put it himself on his field.

2-What is Roundup used for? /4

It's a weed killer. It kills bad weed and let the good stuff grow.

3-How did the chemical company invent Roundup? /4

By mixing some DNA's

4-What has Monsanto accused Schmeiser of doing? /4

Using Roundup product, without permission because he didn't buy it.

5-Why are the farmers pissed off? /4

Because some of them found Monsanto product in their crops, and it's not their fault. Therefor, Monsanto accuses them to use their product illegally.

6-How did Monsanto initially learn about Schmeiser? /4

Because of a document that said that he may have illegal Monsanto product in his crops.

7-Did the company respect its policy on dealing with the farmer? Yes or no. Give a reason. /4

No. They paid someone to go take a sample of Schmeiser's field without permission.

8-What tactics did the company use with another farmer? /4

They send airplanes over his field to detect if there was a Monsanto product in it. Again, without permission.

9-How did another farmer, Zilinski, get Monsanto’s DNA in his crops? /4

Trading crops with a farmer from ''l'Île du Prince Edouard''.

10-How did the company treat Zilinski? /4

They accused him of stealing their stuff.

11-What is Schmeiser’s next step? /4

Force Monsanto company to accepet DNA genetically modified stuff in the farmers fields, because it's not always the farmer's faults if he has other stuff than it's own in his crops. The wind is a big part of the problem!

12-The narrator ends the segment with this question: “But the real question is this, can Monsanto or anybody put a patent on a piece of nature?” What do you think? /6

I don't think that anybody can put a patent on a piece of nature. Nature is so pure. We've seen trough the years that when the human being want to make money out of nature, it destruct it. So i think it would be a crime to try to restrain nature by some law, so a company could benefit of what nature does. Nature is there for everybody, and everybody should enjoy it, without being restrain by any law.