_Monsanto did not directly try to explain how the Roundup Ready
seed got there. "Whether Mr. Schmeiser knew of the matter or not
matters not at all," said Roger Hughes, a Monsanto attorney quoted
by the Western Producer, a Canadian agriculture magazine. A_ canola
scientist, in an affidavit for Monsanto in the trial, said Schmeiser's theories
of cross-pollination by wind and bees did not make sense to him, given the
purity of plants grown based on Monsanto's tests. "It was a very frightening
thing, because they said it does not matter how it gets into a farmer's field;
it's their property," Schmeiser said, in an interview with Agweek. "If it gets
in by wind or cross-pollination, that doesn't matter."_
