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After 12 years of battling to stop Monsanto's genetically-engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's organic farmland, the biggest retailers of "natural" and "organic" foods in the U.S., including Whole Foods Market (WFM), Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farm, have agreed to stop opposing mass commercialization of GE crops

(Source: climateadaptation)

(Reblogged from climateadaptation)

Alfalfa, from Monsanto's Lab to the Supreme Court

abbyjean:

Phillip Geertson is an Idaho alfalfa-seed seller. Today, his case against Monsanto makes its way to the Supreme Court. Monsanto, you see, wants to market a RoundUp Ready alfalfa seed, engineered to withstand their RoundUp brand herbicide. Geertson and his allies at the Center for Food Safety argue that we simply don’t know enough about the environmental, health, cultural, and economic impacts of RoundUp Ready alfalfa to deregulate it as the USDA wants to do. The worry is over genetic drift. Genetically modified alfalfa can contaminate nearby alfalfa fields, leaving the seed pool swamped by patented Monsanto seeds with no conventional or organic alfalfa for sellers like Geertson. Monsanto calls that vision “science fiction.” A federal district court agreed with Geertson in 2007, yanking RoundUp Ready alfalfa from the market.

This isn’t the first time Monsanto has pulled this crap. Here’s hoping Geertson comes out on top of this.

(Reblogged from abbyjean)