[permaculture] [Fwd: [SANET-MG] Appeals Court Rules Planting of Biotech Crop Can Cause Irreversible Harm]
Angela Manno
amanno at angelamanno.com
Wed Jun 24 21:15:21 EDT 2009
Yay! Great news for once!
On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
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> Subject: [SANET-MG] Appeals Court Rules Planting of Biotech Crop Can
> Cause Irreversible Harm
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:54:07 -0400
> From: jcummins <jcummins at UWO.CA>
> To: SANET-MG at LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
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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_*
> * *
> *San Francisco, CA – June 24, 2009 — *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
> planting of genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa pending a
> full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The Court determined that
> the
> planting of genetically modified alfalfa can result in potentially
> irreversible harm to organic and conventional varieties of crops,
> damage
> to the environment, and economic harm to farmers.
> Although the suit was brought against United States Department of
> Agriculture (USDA), Monsanto Company and Forage Genetics entered into
> the suit as Defendant-Intervenors. In September 2008 the Ninth Circuit
> affirmed the lower court’s ruling, but the Intervenors continued to
> press the appeal alone, requesting the appellate court to rehear the
> case. Today’s decision denied that request and re-affirmed the earlier
> decision in full.
> “This ruling affirms a major victory for consumers, ranchers, organic
> farmers, and most conventional farmers across the country,” said Andrew
> Kimbrell, Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety. “Roundup
> Ready Alfalfa represents a very real threat to farmers’ livelihoods and
> the environment; the court rightly dismissed Monsanto’s claims that
> their bottom line should come before the rights of the public and
> America’s farmers. This ruling is a turning point in the regulation of
> biotech crops in this country.”
> Today’s decision again upholds District Court Judge Charles Breyer’s
> earlier ruling of May 2007, in which he found that the USDA failed to
> address concerns that Roundup Ready alfalfa will contaminate
> conventional and organic alfalfa. The Ninth Circuit decision affirms
> that USDA violated national environmental laws by approving GE alfalfa
> without a full Environmental Impact Statement.
> The Center for Food Safety represented itself and the following
> co-plaintiffs in the suit: Western Organization of Resource Councils,
> National Family Farm Coalition, Sierra Club, Beyond Pesticides,
> Cornucopia Institute, Dakota Resource Council, Trask Family Seeds, and
> Geertson Seed Farms. For more information, please visit
> www.centerforfoodsafety.org <http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/> .
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