Cross-posted from the Center for Food Safety Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Genetically Engineered Alfalfa …
How to Respond to GE Alfalfa and Sugar Beets
In the aftermath of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recent decision to deregulate both genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa and sugar …
Associated Press: Experts Say Alfalfa Contamination Certain
The Associated Press printed a story yesterday entitled "Experts: Contamination from GM Alfalfa Certain." In an earlier version of this …
We Stand United in Opposition to GE Alfalfa
We stand united in opposition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to once again allow unlimited, nationwide commercial …
OSA Calls USDA Alfalfa Decision a Threat to Organic Integrity
For Immediate Release: January 27, 2011 Contact: Kristina Hubbard, Director of Advocacy, (406) 493-6965, kristina@seedalliance.org USDA …
Tell USDA to Protect Organic Integrity, Beginning with Alfalfa
As we wrote last month, USDA has completed its environmental impact statement for GE alfalfa and is poised to approve ("deregulate") its …
USDA Plans to Release First GE Perennial Field Crop
USDA has released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Roundup Ready alfalfa with two preferred options for moving forward: 1) …
Supreme Court Maintains Ban on Planting GE Alfalfa
Contacts: George Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety, 415-826-2770, c: 571-527-8618 John Bianchi, Goodman Media, 212-576-2700, c: …
Remember to call Congress this week about GE alfalfa!
As we wrote a couple weeks ago, GE alfalfa is already impacting organic seed producers. We're fortunate that some members of Congress are …
Roundup Ready alfalfa already impacting organic growers
You'll hear the biotechnology industry say that Roundup Ready alfalfa will not impact organic markets and that export countries have already …
Do Your Senators/Representatives Support the Ban on GE Alfalfa?
Roundup Ready alfalfa is receiving a ton of attention lately (especially the Supreme Court case we discussed last month) and members of …
GE Alfalfa Before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in Monsanto vs. Geertson Seed Farms, the first case involving GE crops to reach the high …