If it's going to happen, then I guess it's going to happen. If what you say is true, then you will have to prove your losses and liabilities. If it is indeed provable, then I for one would be most interested. Until then, everything is hypothetical, is it not?

If Australia ends up with the sort of totals that Canad has in ending stocks then it will be easy to prove.
What of GM wheat? NO market in the world wants GM wheat yet if GM wheat is commercialised,markets will presume we are GM unless we prove a GM-free status which is too difficult and too expensive to do.
Thats why a strict liability regime would make more sense.
The GM company should be liable for the economic loss they cause, not the non-GM farmer and not the GM farmer that has been sucked in by a misleading propaganda campaign.

And what of GM wheat?
Plans for that were shelved years ago, and I see no company making moves to revive it. The market spoke.

Which misleading propaganda campaign are you referring to? There's many to choose from.

Actually if world food shortages increase as predicted b other recent articles, the markets wont bung on much of a penalty for GM - they'll just be grateful to get their hands on any produce. Of course, this relies on others getting their predictions right.

We would be stupid to accept that market risk when we don't want to.
Why not change the protocols around where it is the responsibility for the GM grower to contain their product and non-GM farmers can market unhindered? Only common sense really.
Plans were not "shelved" for GM wheat. Australia is a key investor in GM wheat projects now.
It is outrageous. No market wants it yet it is being railroaded through with hopes of adopting the same ridiculous plans where non-GM farmers must prove a GM-free status which is too difficult and too expensive. Nothing short of industry sabotage.
The reason wheat is so much worse is because products will need to be labelled as GM and therefore consumers know what is in the product and hence avoid it.
Why not do the independent health testing required to satisfy consumers? Only common sense really. But no, it is being avoided... what is the GM industry so frightened of? What do they know that will be exposed with independent health tests?

Gosh Julie, ending stocks in Canada again. Last time we talked here I pointed to this page http://www.canola-council.org/oil_meal_and_seed_supply_and_demand.aspx as the true state of affairs. Regardless, you seem to once again ignore reality in order to keep your little fantasy world going. The world quite happily buys Canadian canola with 5.4 million tonnes exported last year and the same forecast for this year. Including 1.3 million tonnes to Japan up to February this year. Ending stocks are forecast to be a mere 13% of supply.

Even better Canadian canola growers produced 9 million tonnes of canola last year at 1.5 tonnes per hectare average across the prairies. Rather better than you guys did with your atrazine resistant canola?