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Category Archives: GMOs
Have You Told USDA How You Feel About GE Sugar Beets?
In 2008, OSA along with our partners, including the attorneys at Center for Food Safety (CFS), successfully won a lawsuit against USDA for its illegal approval of GE sugar beets. The court banned GE sugar beets in 2010 until a … Continue reading
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Farmers Stand Up for Seed Integrity at GE Beet Hearing
Farmers stood up for seed integrity last week in Corvallis, OR, where a listening session on GE sugar beets provided a forum for discussing USDA’s recently released environmental impact statement (EIS). GE sugar beets have been grown in the Willamette … Continue reading
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Is There a Sugar Beet Listening Session Near You?
USDA recently published its court-ordered draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Roundup Ready sugar beets. In addition to accepting written comments, the agency is hosting three public listening sessions in Fargo, ND (Nov. 15), Corvallis, OR (Nov. 17), and Riverdale, MD … Continue reading
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OSA Delivers Comments to USDA on Organic Seed
OSA provided the following comments at a USDA listening session today focused on the agency’s priorities and activities related to organic production and markets. Our comments focused on the need to adequately fund public plant breeding programs, with an emphasis … Continue reading
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Wanted: Robust Regulatory Oversight of GE Crops
OSA joined more than 130 organizations and businesses last week in a joint letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack asking for responsible, fair, and comprehensive agricultural biotechnology regulations. The agency has authority under existing law to step up its regulatory … Continue reading
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Investing in Organic Plant Breeding for a Secure Food Future
In the Fall 2011 issue of Edible Madison, Melissa Hughes with Organic Valley discusses the illusive promise of GE technologies in her piece Searching for the Silver Bullet. The piece is well written, and highlights the need to look beyond … Continue reading
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The President and Seed
Cross-posted from Daily Yonder Last week President Obama held a town hall meeting on the grounds of Iowa’s Seed Savers Exchange, an organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds. The stop was part of a larger strategy to appeal … Continue reading
Seed Monopolies Threaten Seed Diversity
Cross-posted from EcoNews Aug/Sept 2011 Seed saving has been part of human culture since the beginning of agriculture. When our ancestors began saving seed from wild plants, we began a co-evolutionary relationship with plants that is central to our culture. … Continue reading
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Seed Digest (July 8 – 22, 2011)
OSA’s Role in Building Organic Seed Systems According to a 2010 nationwide survey organic farmers are faced with a seed market that neither possesses sufficient available quantities of certified organic seed to meet demand nor the specific varieties of organic … Continue reading
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OSA’s Comments on New GE Corn Trait
OSA’s letter to USDA on a petition to deregulate drought-tolerant, genetically engineered corn Dear Secretary Vilsack: We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the broad consequences of deregulating MON 87460 (Docket No. APHIS-2011-0023), a new corn trait genetically engineered … Continue reading
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