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The GMO Alfalfa Case: Who Won?
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By Amanda Kimble-Evans Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on the first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. Immediately Monsanto hit the wire with self-congratulatory announcements that they “won” the day and the media responded, replicating Monsanto’s PR text over and over across the nation. Fortunately, the Court’s decision on alfalfa genetically modified to resist the chemical herbicide Round-up (the crop in question) actually maintains the ban on planting the engineered seed, although you’ll have to dig to find that good news. The Background: In 2007, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco ruled the USDA illegally approved the GMO alfalfa without receiving a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), as the law requires. The ruling established a nationwide ban on the planting GMO alfalfa until an EIS was completed. The Case: According to the Center for Food Safety, “Monsanto asked the Supreme Court to rule on three main issues:
The Good News: While the Supreme Court did overturn the nationwide injunction, other portions of the lower courts’ decisions that were upheld effectively continued the ban. “The Court’s decision to set aside the injunction was based, in part, on the fact that a prohibition on GMO planting was already in effect…and, therefore, the injunction was duplicative overkill,” wrote Lisa J. Bunin, CFS’s Organic Policy Coordinator. More Good News: The Supreme Court, for the first time ever, recognized the economic impacts of genetic contamination as illegal under environmental law. In ruling on the third issue, the court supported farmers’ rights to be protected from gene-flow and opens the door for a possible permanent injunction based economic devastation caused by cross-contamination by GMO material. For more overviews of the issue, the case and the outcome visit: Help Rodale Institute fight against GM crops and pioneer organics. Become a member, make a donation or sign up for our activist alerts. |
GMO danger
As the owners of a sustainable greenhouse company in Colorado, for 21 years, we are seeing the rize of illness and the degradation of healthy food, as a motivation for our customers learning how to grow their own food. After two decades of responding to the public (and losing my parents to cancer of the colon) I can tell you that GMO's are a danger to people and planet, so devastating, that they should be banned.
Monsanto's power as a corporation has already brought much devastation to our world. I hope the law will protect us further, from their manipulation of our health and well-being. Commercial interests should come AFTER wisdom and sanity, as we all depend upon life. Tunnel vision has been the cause of danger to us all.
sincerely, Dr and MS Parsons
Food Safety Act
Your customers want to grow their own food. They are waking up. This is why the FDA wants the power to outlaw home gardens. The Food Safety Act is a bill, not about food safety, but it is about food control. It gives the power to 'assume' to the FDA so that they can go after healthy food from small farms, organic farms, food coops, and from home gardens. The FDA announced in a law brief last summer that the American consumer has no inherant right to healthy food. They only have to assume that healthy organic food is bad, without scientific evidence, and they can then go after it with fines and jail terms after confiscating it.
inquiry about the process of approval of GMO
are the effect of GMO contamination has already been tested such as research on actual crossbreeding with non-GMO crops with that of GMO crops?
GMO's
It's good that something is finally being done to restrain Monsanto and others who want to contaminate our food supply with their dangerous technology and then claim rights to the contaminated crops and the land they grew on. The injustice of what has happened is astounding. Our government, and indeed nearly all the world governments, have grossly failed to contain and restrict this technology, perhaps out of ignorance or stupidity, or because of bribery or threats. Whatever the reason, it is inexcusable for them to have allowed this to happen. Even if this technology is restricted out of existence, we will always have it with us in the form of environmental contamination, and no one knows what the ultimate consequences will be. Future generations will curse us for allowing this to happen.
GMO
With GMO out of the way we might see society turn its face from man made to Gods send food. I am very happy. This is a good victory for us who know the taste of foods from well grown god sent seed. You who took the fight might just have saved us for an organic future.
I am very thankful.
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