USDA Deregulates GE Alfalfa; Opens Door to New Era of Widespread Genetic Pollution of Crops

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January 28, 2011 | Source: Natural News | by Mike Adams

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After months of pretending to review public feedback on the issue of GE alfalfa, the USDA has announced a surprise lifting of all restrictions on the genetically engineered crop, effectively allowing anyone to plant GE alfalfa anywhere, without any restriction. This is the USDA’s surrender to Monsanto, and it signifies the beginning of a new era of widespread genetic pollution of North America’s crops and ranch animals (which eat those crops).

Even though the USDA recently admitted in its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) that GE alfalfa may pose a risk to both organic farmers and conventional farmers (http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/…), the agency suddenly and without scientific justification decided to remove all restrictions and allow Monsanto to regulate itself!

This is the work of USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Monsanto lobbyists and certain members of Congress who have been influenced to write extremely dishonest letters to the USDA which characters GE restrictions as “unscientific.” NaturalNews previously exposed the twisted logic and manipulative linguistic games used by biotech supporters in an article called, “Unscientific” is secret code for anyone who opposes GMOs or pesticides (http://www.naturalnews.com/031093_u…).