A Taste of Wellness for Savoury and Snacks
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The Center for Food Safety had sued Monsanto and the USDA several times over the deregulation of GM alfalfa, which was seen by many as a bellwether for future GM crop approvals. The USDA deregulated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa – modified for resistance to the company’s Roundup brand herbicide – in January last year.
Last January’s decision to allow planting without any restrictions was seen as a boon to the biotech industry – while opponents of the technology were disappointed. They include proponents of conventional, non-organic agriculture, but the organic industry was one of the most vocal sectors in its opposition to deregulation of the crop, due to the potential for cross-contamination.
However, US District Judge Samuel Conti of San Francisco ruled that the USDA had acted within its authority when it deregulated the crop.
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More problems with GM feed and food
Now an alarming new aspect of GM has emerged. An unknown and unclassified micro-fungal organism inhabits GE feed. The organism, which is not fungus, bacteria, mycoplasma, or virus, was first identified by veterinarians around 1998--two years after soybeans, one of the staple livestock feeds, were introduced as "Roundup ready". The veterinarians had been investigating in livestock a sudden high rate of infertility and spontaneous abortion and detected an organism similar in size to a small virus... to read http://www.opednews.com/articles/Seeds-of-destruction--It-by-j-dial-111211-50.html
Maybe someone is suing somebody for the losses soon.
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Posted by Ben Mark
11 January 2012 | 22h27
But of course!
Well, sure. When you consider that the government is now effectively a dictatorship with umlimited power, there is, by definition, NOTHING that it can do that any puppet court would find "improper".
Perhaps the enviro groups could have helped head such tragedy off if they had focused on prevention of the political and judicial infrastructure that makes these decisions possible, from being built in the first place. But the movements, as a group, refuse to get serious and think proactively that way. Now they've let the social cancer spread and we will all suffer.
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Posted by Jennifer Christiano
10 January 2012 | 19h18