Steve Savage, Ph. Benbrook came to just 4 oz. The anti-GMO studies show the need for independent research on genetically modified crops. Substituting shrill rhetoric with solid fact holds the best hope for addressing the GMO conflict. Log in to leave a comment. Sign in.
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Join us today, and your first yearly amount will be matched dollar for dollar. Grist is the only nonprofit newsroom focused on exploring solutions at the intersection of climate and justice. John Upton Technology. Kate Yoder. Joseph Winters. Marianne Dhenin. Eve Andrews. Jena Brooker. It also would inexplicably force USDA to allow continued planting of a GE crop even if a court of law identifies previously unrecognized risks.
In addition, Section would target vital judiciary oversight over USDA approvals by barring courts from compelling USDA to take action against agriculture policies that may harm farmers and the environment. They unreasonably pressure USDA with impossible deadlines for analysis and decision, while at the same time withhold funds to conduct necessary environmental reviews and limit the regulatory authority of other agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency EPA.
These riders create multiple backdoor approval mechanisms that would allow for the premature commercialization of untested biotech traits to enter our food system. Insulated from pushback, the industry riders also force USDA to adopt a controversial policy that would for the first time set allowable levels of GE contamination in crops and foods. Other states have tried to pass similar measures and failed, but California is taking the issue directly to voters, who have largely been in favor of labeling.
Farm groups such as the American Soybean Association supported the provision, which appeared in March, as a way for farmers to have confidence that if they plant a crop, they will be able to sell it and not become collateral damage in lengthy legal wrangling.
No lawmaker has claimed authorship of the rider, also known as Section , which appeared as part of a bill to fund many government departments through Sept. A Senate staff worker said the provision was an unavoidable carry-over from House-Senate negotiations last fall.
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