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Justices to hear appeal on Roundup Ready alfalfa seed |
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Written by Administrator
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Jan 29, 2010 at 12:19 AM |
| Friday, 29 January 2010 01:04 |
Billings Gazette
January 26, 2010
A Supreme Court case targeting Roundup Ready alfalfa could write new
ground rules for legal battles involving other genetically modified
crops, including Montana and Wyoming sugar beets.
At issue is whether a lower court erred when it sided with
environmentalists alleging imminent danger if Monsanto Co. sold alfalfa
seed genetically engineered to resist the popular weed killer Roundup.
Monsanto is arguing that its opponents should have been required to produce evidence that danger was indeed imminent.
The Center for Food Safety, representing several consumer and
farm-related groups, argued that Monsanto alfalfa could cross-pollinate
with organic varieties, making them unmarketable. Sales of Monsanto’s
seed have been on hold for three years as the result of the lower
court’s ban-imposing injunction.
Likewise, Monsanto is arguing that it should have had the chance,
through evidentiary hearing, to prove that its alfalfa isn’t a threat.
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