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Monsanto loses again: GE alfalfa banned nationwide
Posted by timethief • 7/09/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: biotechnology, court-decisions, ge alfalfa, ge crops, monsanto, roundup
- A federal court has upheld a ban on the planting of Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa in the United States. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its previous ruling that the alfalfa, which is engineered to tolerate the herbicide Roundup, could contaminate conventional and organic alfalfa and thus cause "irreversible harm" to the farmers whose livelihoods depend on these crops and to the environment.
In the original lawsuit, the Center for Food Safety, other nonprofit organizations, and two alfalfa seed producers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for approving GE alfalfa without preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) as required by federal law. After the district court issued its original ruling in 2008 to ban the alfalfa, Monsanto and another biotechnology company appealed the ban, but their appeal was denied in this final ruling. The ban will remain in place until the USDA completes the EIS.
Read the decision PDF www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/06/24/07-16458.pdf
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any bad day for Monsanto is a good day for humanity
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- I agree 100%
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Yay!
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- Have you seen the 10 part video series called "The World According to Monsanto"?
This is the documentary series "The World According to Monsanto", about GMO, which is a Eugenics Operation.
Here's the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_OJcPKEYDE -
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