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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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audrey
cheyenne
wy
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 Posted - Aug 17 2010 : 11:15:30 AM
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I read this online this morning and thought I'd share it with all of you.
"A federal judge has revoked the government’s approval of genetically altered sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorough review of how the scientifically engineered crops affect other food.
The ruling issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White means sugar beet growers won’t be able to use the modified seeds after harvesting the Roundup Ready beets already planted on more than 1 million acres spanning 10 states from Michigan to Oregon, including Wyoming and Montana. All the seed comes from Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Additional planting won’t be allowed until the U.S. Department of Agriculture submits an environmental impact statement, although growers can harvest and sell this year’s beets and may store any Roundup Ready seed already produced. Completing an EIS can take two or three years.
White declined a request to issue an injunction that would have imposed a permanent ban on the biotech beets, which Monsanto Co. developed to resist glyphosate, the active ingredient in its popular weed killer, Roundup."
About time somebody did something. Hope they can make it permanent. It's a start at least. Hope GM corn is next!
Audrey
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Aug 17 2010 : 10:58:21 PM
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It could be because the govt. has found that, because of cross pollination, native plants are being affected by the GM plants. All the things that environmentalists have been saying appear to be true--the native plants are mutating and who knows what that may lead to. I think all politicians should have to take courses in biology, botany, chemistry,etc. so they'd realize that tree huggers generally are right.
Cindy
"There is more to life than increasing its speed". Mahatma Gandhi
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
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Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Aug 17 2010 : 10:58:51 PM
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I'm with you. It's about time! Thanks for reporting this. Bonnie
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Aug 18 2010 : 05:55:00 AM
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WOOO HOOO! I grew up in a sugar beet town and live in one now. I was SO disappointed a few years ago when the paper did a write up celebrating that all the sugar beet growers were now going to be using the new Round Up Ready seeds. It made me so sad, mad and disappointed. I hope it fails all the government tests and this sets a precedent to get GM out of American soil!
Alee
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