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At 09:20 AM 3/6/07, you wrote:

>GM Crops Being Declared Illegal

>06-Mar-2007

>

>Federal Courts have ruled against the USDA in three cases for failing to

>carry out proper environment impact assessment, making their original

>approvals of GM crops illegal. One of the biggest problems with these

>crops is that they pollute nearby fields, something that is especially

>worrisome to farmers who grow organic crops, which are becoming more

>popular every day.

>

>The first lawsuit concerns drug-producing GM crops. According to the

>Institute of Science in Society (ISS), " a federal district judge in Hawaii

>ruled in August 2006 that the USDA violated the Endangered Species Act as

>well as the National Environmental Policy Act in allowing drug- producing

>GM crops to be cultivated throughout Hawaii, and failing to conduct even

>preliminary investigations on environmental impact prior to the approval

>of planting…. From 2001 to 2003, four companies, ProdiGene,

>Monsanto,Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and Garst Seed, were allowed

>to plant corn and sugarcane genetically modified to produce experimental

>pharmaceutical products such as vaccines, hormones, cancer fighting agents

>and other proteins that are still under development and hence not yet

>approved. "

>

>The second case was filed in Federal Court Washington DC in February, 2007

>against the trials of GM creeping bentgrass by the Center for Food Safety,

>and other plaintiffs. According to the ISS webiste, " Federal district

>judge Harold Kennedy ruled that the USDA must halt approval of all new

>field trials until more rigorous environmental reviews are conducted.

>USDA's past approval of GM herbicide-tolerant creeping bent grass led to

>widespread dispersal of pollen from the GM grass, and USDA's approval of

>bent grass trials was ruled illegal. " The third case was filed in Northern

>California by the Center for Food Safety, environment and others,

>including farmers. The ISS reports that in February, 2007, " a Federal

>Court ruled that Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa had been approved for

>commercial release illegally, because there had been no Environment Impact

>Statement…[This] decision may prevent this season's sales and planting of

>Monsanto's GM alfalfa and future submissions of other GM crops for

>commercial deregulation. "

>

>Seed savers may be able to relax: the age of Frankenfoods may finally be

>over.

>

>Art credit: freeimages.co.uk

>

>Many of us are switching to organic food. Anne and Whitley switched—have

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>is to support this website by switching from reading (and listening) for

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>in your hybrid- engine car (while munching an organic carrot)!

>

>

>Marijuana Medicine

>06-Mar-2007

>

>We've written before about how some people think Marijuana is a wonder

>drug. Now a new scientific study proves that Marijuana is a " valuable

>medicine " for certain types of intractable pain that cannot be relieved

>any other way. This should make us take another look at our drug

>laws—which are NOT working.

>

>In the Boston Globe, Lester Grinspoon reports on a new study in the

>journal Neurology that " is being hailed as unassailable proof that

>marijuana is a valuable medicine. " According to Grinspoon, who is

>co-author of Marijuana the Forbidden Medicine, this is nothing new. He

>writes, " From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals

>published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known

>as cannabis. "

 

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