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Roundup Ready Alfalfa
FARMER/ORGANIC PRODUCER TALKING POINTS: Click here
CONSUMER TALKING POINTS: Click here
Beginning in 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and others took legal action against the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) illegal approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts agreed and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed the impacts of the plant on the environment, farmers, and the public in an environmental impacts statement (EIS).
USDA released its draft EIS on December 14, 2009. A 60-day comment period is now open until February 16, 2010.
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) strongly believes this EIS failed to address the economic and environmental consequences of GE alfalfa. It sets dangerous precedent for future deregulation, and threatens the integrity of organic seed and food systems and the National Organic Program.
Organic Seed Alliance worked with Center for Food Safety staff and others to put together talking points specifically for organic farmers who want to give input.
Please, take the time to familiarize yourself with these points and make comments before the deadline. Please make note to the page references to the actual EIS document in your comments. To review the EIS and supplemental documents.
Click here for ROUNDUP READY ALFALFA EIS: ORGANIC PRODUCER TALKING POINTS
Provide your comments to USDA APHIS No Later Than February 16, 2009.
To Submit Your Comments to the USDA: http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480a6b7a1
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