Re: Supreme Ct over turns MonSATAN Alfalfa Ban!!!!

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Wow, this is extremely important news, and it didnt even make it to the

alternative-health-news sites I view! wtf? This is big.

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> Keep in mind, Clarence used to be the atty for MonSatan!

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> What I CAN'T understand, is how the people who created the movie, Food, Inc.,

are HAPPY with this decision!

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/22bizcourt.html?src=busln

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> Justices Back Monsanto on Biotech Seed Planting

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> Bob Brawdy/The Tri-City Herald, via Associated Press

> The decision was a victory for Monsanto and othersin the agricultural

biotechnology industry. Above, an alfalfa field inPasco, Wash.

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> By ANDREW POLLACK

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> Published: June 21, 2010

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> In its first-ever ruling on genetically modified crops, the Supreme Court on

Monday overturned a lower court’s ban on the planting of alfalfa seeds

engineered to resist Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.

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> The decision was a victory for Monsanto and others in the

agriculturalbiotechnology industry, with potential implications for other

cases,like one involving genetically engineered sugar beets.

> But in practice the decision is not likely to measurably speed up

theresumption of planting of the genetically engineered alfalfa.

> A federal district judge in San Francisco had ruled in 2007 that

theAgriculture Department had approved the genetically engineered alfalfafor

commercial planting without adequately considering the possibleenvironment

impact, as required by federal law. The judge vacatedapproval, known as

deregulation of the crop, and also imposed anationwide ban on planting those

seeds. The ban was later upheld onappeal.

> But the Supreme Court, in