Fredkc
14th December 2010, 19:45
Works for me!
Judge orders Monsanto GMO sugar beets destroyed
(http://www.tgdaily.com/opinion-features/52946-judge-orders-monsanto-gmo-sugar-beets-destroyed)
A federal judge has ruled - for the first time in US history - that a genetically modified (GM) crop be destroyed.
In doing so, US District Judge Jeffrey White of California delivered a serious blow to the Monsanto Company’s GM sugar beet empire for reasons of environmental harm.
Judge White ruled back August that all future plantings of GM beets stop until the US Department of Agriculture could conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) that proves the crop’s safety.
Judge orders Monsanto GMO sugar beets destroyedThe USDA however, in typical corporate lapdog fashion, violated the ruling and allowed Monsanto to plant the GM crops anyway.
This led an angry Judge White to order the controversial beets destroyed.
Monsanto had a fit over the legal ban last month.
And when the usually privileged Monsanto couldn’t manipulate the situation they made sure the unleash propaganda about how if they weren’t allowed to get their way that the whole sugar beet industry would crash if their GM sugar beets were not allowed to be grown.
The harmful chemical and biotechnology behemoth even petitioned the court to permit the plants so that the company could protect their interests and avoid losing the money it spent on researching and developing the eerie technology.
Still, Judge White stuck to his guns and a lot of people feel that he did the right thing.
(more at link)
Judge orders Monsanto GMO sugar beets destroyed
(http://www.tgdaily.com/opinion-features/52946-judge-orders-monsanto-gmo-sugar-beets-destroyed)
A federal judge has ruled - for the first time in US history - that a genetically modified (GM) crop be destroyed.
In doing so, US District Judge Jeffrey White of California delivered a serious blow to the Monsanto Company’s GM sugar beet empire for reasons of environmental harm.
Judge White ruled back August that all future plantings of GM beets stop until the US Department of Agriculture could conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) that proves the crop’s safety.
Judge orders Monsanto GMO sugar beets destroyedThe USDA however, in typical corporate lapdog fashion, violated the ruling and allowed Monsanto to plant the GM crops anyway.
This led an angry Judge White to order the controversial beets destroyed.
Monsanto had a fit over the legal ban last month.
And when the usually privileged Monsanto couldn’t manipulate the situation they made sure the unleash propaganda about how if they weren’t allowed to get their way that the whole sugar beet industry would crash if their GM sugar beets were not allowed to be grown.
The harmful chemical and biotechnology behemoth even petitioned the court to permit the plants so that the company could protect their interests and avoid losing the money it spent on researching and developing the eerie technology.
Still, Judge White stuck to his guns and a lot of people feel that he did the right thing.
(more at link)