Jim Gerritsen

Jim Gerritsen is an American farmer from Maine. Gerritsen owns and operates Wood 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 magazine's "world visionary" for that year.[3]

Gerritsen has connected the message of Occupy Wall Street to the loss of family farms.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Monsanto versus the people, Aljazeera. January 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ Goad, Meredith (January 13, 2014). "Supreme Court won’t hear Maine farmers’ appealed lawsuit against Monsanto". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Jim Gerritsen: Organic Food Champion". Utne Reader. November–December 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Moskin, Julia (December 5, 2011). "A Maine Farmer Speaks to Wall Street". New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2014.