Monsanto sued him in 2003 for saving their soybeans, which

he did not do. He never grew a soybean in his life

Growing their seed, he he didn' t do it

As far as we can tell he' s the oldest man in the world

to ever have been sued for saving seed since god created seed.

He's probably the only farmer to ever beat Monsanto hands down.

Even after the lawsuit was over I couldn't make him believe it was over, he would

cry and keep saying,

they're going to come back and sue me again

It destroyed him, it destroyed his life

He went to his grave, this grave, still afraid of them

He's at peace now

abiding in his destiny

It' s pretty hard to take your 80-something-year old father to federal court on a walker

when he's falsely accused by a big corporation.

Your opposition is a bunch of bunny rabbit lawyers wearing a thousand dollar suit

suing a man

that went to war

for the freedom

for some scumbags to misuse.

Roll time back a little further, when

the earth was without farm

and he separated the waters and got him some dry land

I guess you could say god was the first farmer.

And the first he did was he created grasses, plants,

herbs and trees that would have seeds in itself meaning that it would reproduce next year

My name is Michael White, I live in the rural Northeast corner of Alabama

I'm a fourth generation farmer

My great grandfathers gristmill was out there

and I've heard my kin folk would say there would be 20 or 30 mules

and wagons lined up there to bringing corn to be ground

in to cornmeal and wheat to be ground in to flour

Old corn sheller, that's when you put an ear of corn in there and shelled it by hand.

The corn would go in there,

the cob would come out here and the shell corn would fall in there

1982 I saw a need for a seed merchant in this area

so I bought some seed cleaning machines.

We bring the grain in out of the field or out of other bins

We bring it in here and it travels up through conveyors

and comes down through this machine,

it gets the metal out, any kind of gravel or pebble

and then we bag it over there

I'v e been growing these seed about 20 years some of them maybe 30 years.

We'll clean these and replant them next year,

that a way I don't have to go buy new seed every year I save my own.

Which saves me about twenty thousand dollars

and I don't have to give it to some big agricultural corporation.

Not many seed cleaning places are left,

it's just got too dangerous I mean

Monsanto sued about seven farmers around here and they threatened to sue 75 farmers

They spread a lot of discord in this community.

I could still clean for the public but it's too dangerous.

Monsanto will send a private investigator in here with a load of seed

and lie to you about what he's got and then you clean them and you're hung.

If them was GMO seed and I did on that machine,

it would be illegal, get sued, lose everything you got.

That would be called assisting farmers to violate intellectual property rights

That thousands of years tradition of saving seed is over with

I was told by officials in Montgomery that they picked me for a poster boy

One of their salesmen threatened my life

Claimed they had already killed a person

If I showed any weakness they just showed more strength so I wouldn't back down

The day they had to fess up to the death threat just immediately they ask to go to mediation

I refused to go and

They been beating on me 4 or 5 year and I wanted to beat on them for a while

They told me in court, they said you got them on the ropes what do you want to do

I said I want to knock them out

But most farmers are running scared of Monsanto so they got in line

and they dance when Monsanto plays the fiddle.

They got a pretty well oiled machine

Slam a couple hundred farmers through court

and they have to come out with their lips zipped up

They've silenced most of them except three or four of us

Most farmers go broke before they ever get cleared for a jury trial.

I was cleared for a jury trial.

I would fight them again.

It will snow in hell before I give in to them

I don't think seed needs to be genetically altered I don't think they need to be genetically modified

They have a gene called the terminator gene,

it's spooky it can cause seed like I have to not reproduce.

Monsanto and the companies they have both ends of the rope

I can't sue them if their seed gets in my field

and I don't trust them

I don't know what they're capable of.

These soybeans would almost qualify as organic,

probably would if I had done the paperwork.

I feel like I'm producing a safe product and 10 year down the road

we find out some of these new seed are causing cancer

or sever health problems

I'll still have a clear conscious

You eat everyday and live once so

so If these new GM crops are so high yielding

how come the prices of grain is not falling instead of going up

In the Last few years the seed price inflation was around 300 percent

Seed control is not a new weapon it's a very old weapon

Pharo in Egypt did it, the Israelites had to go to him and beg for seed

It's just not morally or economically right to able to patent anything that reproduces

I don't think Monsanto wants to starve people

I think they're in it for the love of money

the root of all evil.

Monsanto's corporation is not a human being it's an entity it has no soul

it won't be judged on judgment day

Of course all giants fall. History repeats itself and their day is coming