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USDA Approves GMO Grass: No Tests Needed Just Sell It!
By Jeremy Bloom, www.organicconsumers.org
May 23rd, 2014
Uh oh. If youve been following the issue here at RGB, youre aware of the fact that the US Department of Agriculture has been making life very easy for Monsanto, the big agriculture behemoth that controls a huge share of US (and global) seed production. Theyve approved a number of Monsantos genetically modified (GMO) crops already this year. But the latest development blows the doors off what has happened so far.
The USDA slipped through an innocuous-looking press release about Kentucky bluegrass late Friday afternoon before the Fourth of July weekend. Its GMO bluegrass, engineered to resist Monsantos nasty plant-killer, Roundup, so you can plant it on your lawn and then douse the whole joint with their chemical weedkiller.
The USDA ruled that there was no danger, so they dont need to do any tests. Just start selling.
Its a blatant end-run around regulatory oversight, said George Kimbrell, senior lawyer at the Center for Food Safety.
More:
http://www.popularresistance.org/usda-approves-gmo-grass-no-tests-needed-just-sell-it/
Leme
(1,092 posts)side effects, unseen consequences, future litgaton
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Now we can kill every plant and insect in sight so we can cover the place with useless lawns! Science!!!!!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)banned gmo's. They produce most of the grass seed in the nation.