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GMO Grass is Creeping Across Oregon

posted by martyb on Monday July 02 2018, @11:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-wait-until-the-Ents-get-loose dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

High Country News reports:

[...] Scotts got permission from the USDA to plant larger fields for seed production. Farmers sowed 80 acres of bentgrass in Canyon County, Idaho, and 420 acres in Jefferson County, Oregon, north of Bend. The Oregon Department of Agriculture picked the site - an irrigated island in the sagebrush sea - to keep the plant far from the Willamette Valley. There, on the western side of the mountains, farmers grow forage and turf grass for a $1 billion-a-year seed industry.

Then two windstorms swept through the eastern Oregon fields in August of 2013, scattering flea-sized seeds well beyond the designated control area. Roundup-resistant pollen fertilized conventional bentgrass plants as far as 13 miles away.

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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Monday July 02 2018, @03:00PM

    by ledow (5567) on Monday July 02 2018, @03:00PM (#701391) Homepage

    And they do anything differently for non-GMO food?

    And it's not quite automatic approval:

    https://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GEPlants/default.htm [fda.gov]

    Monsanto quote? It'll be on a court record, yes? That their plants could NEVER spread in any neighbouring field? You'll have that as a legal statement read in court?
    (P.S. Let me just say, Monsanto are the devil-spawn, I hate them, and I know geneticists who hate them for vastly different but also similar-base reasons: They're only interested in money. So don't listen to one company's marketing. Listen to scientists. As we said all along that the seeds would spread into the world once you have the very first open-field trial).

    And, yes it is.

    You rebuked nothing. You provided no source or pertinent data.

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