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From: Center for Food Safety [mailto:info@truefoodnow.org]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 5:51 PM
To: atasteofcreole@gmail.com
Subject: A Not Sweet Holiday Treat

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A Not Sweet Holiday Treat: USDA Proposing Interim Planting of Illegal,
Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets: Tell USDA To Say No! Farmers and
Consumers Will be at risk!

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<http://cfs.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/11350.jpg> In August, a
Federal court ruled that USDA's approval of genetically engineered (GE),
"Roundup Ready" sugar beets was unlawful, concluding that USDA had failed to
conduct an adequate analysis of the impacts of this crop on farmers and the
environment, such as the biological contamination of non-GE crops with GE
pollen. The Court made the biotech beets once again illegal to plant or
sell until USDA completed a rigorous review of the potential impacts of the
beets to farmers, the environment and the public and makes a new decision
whether to allow commercialization. USDA anticipates this assessment will be
finished in 2012.

Now, under pressure from Monsanto and the sugar industry, USDA has proposed
to allow the planting of GE beets again beginning next spring, before the
agency completes its environmental assessment of the crop's impacts.

This USDA proposal would allow commercialization to continue under the guise
of field trial permits, which are only used for research. USDA's actions are
a "de facto" commercialization creating an end run around the need for
future approvals and their analyses.

The USDA proposal includes new measures, claiming these will keep harms to
farmers and the environment from occurring. But these are the same measures
that the Federal Court refused to adopt in August when it announced GE beets
were illegal under federal law. And they are the same measures the agency
was charged with analyzing in its yet to be completed environmental impact
statement.

USDA, under the influence of the biotech industry, must not be allowed to
circumvent environmental law and the opinion of the U.S. courts, or ignore
farmer choice and public opinion. Tell USDA its illegal proposal must not be
approved!

USDA has a comment period open only through December 6, 2010, so please send
your comment today!
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