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US Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Monsanto GM Seed
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Monsanto can sell genetically modified seeds without having to worry about safety tests.
The ban on Monsanto GM seed was imposed by a lower court which had previously ruled that the sale of the modified alfalfa seeds may NOT proceed until an environmental impact study had been carried out.
Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller has caused an explosion of resistant “superweeds” infesting millions of hectares (acres) of land in the United States.
However, the Supreme Court’s “Magnificent Seven,” that’s 7 of the nine Justices most accommodating to corporate interests than public safety, decided that the ruling was unconstitutional, and reversed the decision.
Alfalfa is the fourth most valuable crop grown in the U.S., the world’s largest producer of the grass-like plant used as animal feeds, and the Monsanto modification is meant to make the seed resistant to the company’s own brand of weedkiller—killing two birds, as it were, with one Monsanto stone!
Environmentalists are worried about the real risk of cross-pollination between the Monsanto’s genetically modified plants and crops grown nearby, as well as the danger of polluting the ground water as a result of the overuse of the company’s weedkiller Roundup, which could also result in rapid growth of resistant “superweeds.”
Monsanto claims its products are no danger [sic] to the environment and any claims against them are “bad science fiction with no support on the record.”
At least 10 resistant “superweeds” in more than 22 states are infesting millions of acres, a report said.
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