Jim Gerritsen is an American farmer from Maine. Gerritsen owns and operate World Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine, where he primarily grows organic potatoes. Gerritsen is President of the Maine-based Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association. In March 2011, Gerritsen and other farmers filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Corporation to stop it from suing farmers who have been contaminated by their genetically modified seeds.[1] In January 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear OSGTA lawsuit, effectively ending the case.[2] In November 2011, the Utne Reader named Gerritsen an Organic Food Champion and one of the magazines world visionary for that year.[3] Gerritsen has connected the message of Occupy Wall Street to the loss of family farms.[4] vimeo/68624437
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 06:19:05 +0000
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