USDA: Farmers can plant genetically modified beets

[Amelia]

USDA: Farmers can plant genetically modified beets

By MICHAEL J. CRUMB,

Associated Press – Fri Feb 4

DES MOINES, Iowa – Genetically modified sugar beets designed to withstand the weedkiller Roundup can be planted under strict conditions with no threat to the environment and other plants, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday in a decision anxiously awaited by farmers.

The agency's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said it would partially deregulate so-called Roundup Ready beets, letting farmers plant them while it finished work on a full environmental impact statement.

Last summer, a federal judge in California issued an order last summer halting the planting of genetically modified sugar beets until the USDA completed an environmental impact study on how the beets could affect conventional crops. The ruling had a widespread impact since nearly all the nation's sugar beets come from the genetically altered seed, and farmers had worried the USDA wouldn't finish its work in time for spring planting.

"This is a really big deal," said Mike Moyle, a Republican lawmaker who used to grow sugar beets and still farms west of Boise, Idaho. "If they hadn't approved this, farmers in Idaho wouldn't have had enough (unmodified) seed."

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"This is a clear indication the USDA is more interested in protecting the biotech industry than the health, safety, environment and property rights of U.S. farmers and consumers who choose not to grow or consume (genetically modified crops)," the La Farge, Wis.-based cooperative said

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[fccool]

Yes, it's said that even organic corporations are now caving in. Holding patents on seeds of a plant is an essentially vicious and evil idea at its core. It should never have been allowed.

[Amelia]

Especially with the way Monsanto works.

[LifeHiscost]

Especially with the way Monsanto works.

We can be assured that because man is becoming so proficient in wresting the control over organic life of that best left to our Creator, little time is left for those still living on this earth to prepare themselves to welcome the King of glory.

"Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Luke 21:27 NKJV

God Blesses!

[LifeHiscost]

Yep, best to let people starve...can't have none of that dang nab modified stuff in the ground. Why who knows what it will lead too, modified humans? If God wanted more people to eat he should have told us how to do it in the Bible! Only God can create, all of this other new fangled stuff is of the devil. This is just...mumble...mumble...outrageous...

Guess some haven't heard the news of the agricultural industry of other countries who have turned down the well-meaning efforts of the U.S. agricultural businesses. Lest any be naive enough to think the U.S. big businesses are only making an effort to see that we're well fed, they patent each one of those newly modified seeds so, for instance, if one would rather not pay the ever increasing cost of their seeds, we can spend our own research money to modify seeds.

In the meantime, the new foods that are produced by the modified seeds, the bugs won't eat because the foods have lost their taste and nourishment. That's why the new foods last six weeks in the refridge instead of the seven days they use to survive.

It's only a matter of time before one of the last plagues of sores will fall on human kind. Is it possible at least part of the reason for that is attributable to a weak immune system resulting from eating foodstuffs failing to meet the needs of the body God fine tuned to last forever?

" So the first angel left the Temple and poured out his bowl on the earth, and horrible, malignant sores broke out on everyone who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his statue."Revelation 16:2 NLT

God blesses!