Imagine that a storm blows across your garden - and that
now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years.
A few days later, representatives of a multi-national corporate group pay you a visit at home, demand that you surrender your vegetables - and simultaneously file a criminal complaint against you, resulting in a fine of Euro 20.000,00 - for the illegal use of patented and genetically-manipulated seeds. What's more: The court finds for the corporate group!
Yet you fight back.… This short story is no utopia - rather, around the world, the bitter truth. It is also the true experience of the family of Percy und Louise Schmeiser in Canada, fighting the chemicals and seeds manufavturer Monsanto since 1996. This film is reassuring. Reassuring to all who fear that as an individual, no one would have any power to confront policymakers, large corporations or the business world. "David vs. Monsanto" proves the opposite.