Health, Consumer, Environmental, Organic Agriculture, Food Companies, and Farm Groups Join the Call for USDA to reign-in the Biotech Industry The Center for Food Safety today announced that it delivered more than 20,000 individual comments to the USDA demanding that the agency strengthen oversight of genetically modified (GM) crops to prevent contamination. The Center also [...]
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Appeals Court Rules Planting of Biotech Crop Can Cause Irreversible Harm to Organic and Conventional Crops, Farmers, and the Environment. Monsanto’s Petition to Rehear Denied in Full In a decision handed down here today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has re-affirmed its previous decision upholding a nationwide ban on the [...]
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The biotechnology firm ArborGen has asked the USDA for permission to conduct 29 field trials of genetically engineered “cold tolerant” eucalyptus trees in the U.S. For the first time in history, this massive experiment, which is on the verge of being green-lighted, will literally be using nature as the laboratory to test more than 260,000 [...]
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