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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 EETech1 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:39AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:39AM (#701744)

    No, I'm not afraid of chocolate, but if someone genetically engineered a dog that shit something that looked like chocolate, smelled like chocolate, and even tasted like chocolate, would you mind if this cheaper dog shit chocolate was served to you instead?

    Would the fact that it's actually dog shit bother you?

    And I don't know why it matters that insects aren't human?

    As far as arguing about if the binder is more dangerous than the chemical within it that destroys cell replication, I'm sticking with my original opinion that not having the poison on your food has to be better. I guess it's a bonus that they won't be spreading around the toxic binder as well. Ditto for everyone not poisoned applying these totally safe chemicals.

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