Beet ban will hurt farmers while strengthening massive seed monopolies
18th August 2010
So how are biotech sugar beets (already approved by the USDA, mind you) significantly affecting the human environment? Activists at the Center for Food Safety and the Sierra Club argued in federal court that sugar beets improved to resist the herbicide glyphosate might result in the development of superweeds or might interbreed with organic chard and regular beets.
When did ‘activist’ become a career field?
Unlike drugs which can sell for beaucoup bucks, crops are commodities that sell for dollars per bushel. So only big companies can marshal the financial and legal resources required to get approval for crops that sell by millions of bushels and bales, corn, soybean, canola, and cotton. Meanwhile the biotech improvement of smaller niche crops, say tomatoes and green beans, that might benefit even backyard gardeners remains stymied.
August 18th, 2010 at 11:37
T of A asked, “When did ‘activist’ become a career field?”
I’m wondering, What does it pay and is it a prerequisite that you have brain damage?
August 18th, 2010 at 20:25
It must pay enough to live on, otherwise these lice wouldn’t have the time to do all this stuff. Perhaps they live off of welfare payments.