Monsanto vows to fight GM sugar beet ban


Monsanto has vowed to appeal against an order by a US judge to uproot 104ha of its GM sugar beet crop.

US District Judge Jeffrey White said the seedlings, planted in Oregon and Arizona in September, posed a significant environmental risk.

Despite efforts to prevent contamination or cross-pollination of crops, there was no guarantee that the GM crops would not affect other plants, he added.

The injunction, granted after a request from a group of environmental lawyers, bans the continued growing of GM sugar beet in either US state.

The plants were to be used to produce genetically-altered seeds for the US sugar beet crop in 2012.

Paul Achitoff, the lawyer for complainants Earthjustice, said theUS Department of Agriculture (USDA) had “allowed the crop to be grown without environmental review”.......................click for more

 

 Source Web Page: Farmers weekly interactive


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