Monsanto asks court to allow sale of GMO alfalfa

[lovuian]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=businessNews&storyid=2007-03-24T214944Z_01_N24296804_RTRUKOC_0_US-MONSANTO-ALFALFA.xml&src=rss

Monsanto Co. (MON.N: Quote, Profile , Research) has asked a San Francisco federal court to allow it to continue selling its genetically modified Roundup Ready Alfalfa while the USDA conducts a court-ordered environmental impact study.

Monsanto, its seed distributors and growers stand to lose up to $250 million if the alfalfa, which was designed to survive the company's Roundup herbicide, is taken off the market for the two years it takes to complete the study, the company said in court papers filed late on Friday.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer halted the sale of the modified alfalfa at the request of farmers, environmentalists and consumer advocates who say that it could harm the U.S. economy and the environment.

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Alfalfa, a fodder crop pollinated by bees and wind, is among the most widely grown crops in the United States, along with corn, soybeans and wheat.
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and you wonder how bees dying could be linked to GM foods

[live love laugh]

1. I'm sure Monsanto will get their way in Caleefonia. As for the bees,

that does explain a lot about their disappearance if they are pollinating this crop with built in insecticides. Another thread about bees disappearing had a large number of people arguing that GM foods could not possibly be the cause because bees don't pollinate corn--the original GM food. This changes that theory totally.

[Cha]

2. Halt that sale of Alfalfa from monsanto

..it needs to lose $250million..creepy corporate sterile terminator seed whores.

[msongs]

3. farmers should SUE monsanto for contaminating THEIR crops with the frankefoods

altered plants.

monsanto seed contaminates a farmer's fields and crops - > monsanto sues the farmer for "using" patented frankenfoods.

it should be the other way around.

wish we had a congress that agreed with me and wasnt a prostitute to monsanto.

Msongs
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[soothsayer]

4. death to monsatan!

[nicknameless]

5. .

K&R