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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bt Sweet Corn
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:54:10 -0500
>u may feel that a farmer to farmer suit is there but the farmer planting
the
>GMO corn and following the USDA directions is not doing anything wrong .
>they USDA says its ok to plant it. how can u put a lawsuit on a farmer
who
>does what the USDA says is ok. the USDA says its ok to contaminate organic
>growers and they will send a inspector over to the organic farmers place
and
>take away his organicness. your fight is not with other farmers its with
>the USDA EPA and FDA. good luck
I don't think it's that cut and dry. If someone were willing and had the
capital to support a lawsuit, I believe the courts would recognize the
incongruity of such a situation. Unfortunately, it would take a lot of
capital to pursue this through the system. Equally unfortunately, it
demonstrates that without enforcement, and committment by the people, there
is no law. Major corporations know that and have budgets built in to wear
down opponents legally. But I believe this issue, along with herbicide
drift, is ripe for the picking for someone with the will and capital to
pursue it.
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
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Bt Sweet Corn,
Del Williams, 04/23/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 04/23/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Marie Kamphefner, 04/23/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, sal, 04/23/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Bill Shoemaker, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Wiediger, Alison, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Alex McGregor, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Alex McGregor, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Bill Shoemaker, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, jay gee, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Kevin Ancell, 04/25/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, sunnfarm, 04/26/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Del Williams, 04/26/2001
- Re: Bt Sweet Corn, Alex McGregor, 04/26/2001
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