Judge Bans Future Plantings of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Throwing Nation's Sugar Supply into Doubt

The Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, Sierra Club and High Mowing Organic Seeds; you're all on my list

Nice job, USDoA, trashing 95% of the sugar beet crop. Well done.

Boy, good thing I stopped eating sweets and snacks a few weeks ago. Just in time!

And sugar is bad for you anyway. Think of it as making america healthier.

Why does the government always ban things when they want to do a study?!? I'm all for studying things to make sure they are safe for us and the environment, but don't blithely throw an industry into chaos to make a pack of rabid environmentalists happy!

Shortage? Surely they will revert back to the previous crop source and plant unmodified beets. No big deal unless the reporter here knows something they didn't include in the story.

While I favor the concept of genetically modified crops... Monsanto has got to be one of the most evil companies on the planet.

They have more lawyers on their payroll than scientists. They are buying water rights in countries that allow it in order to monopolize water and extort populations. They vigorously defend their intellectual property (gene sequences), to the point of pursuing farmers whose crops are cross pollinated by insects or wind from neighboring fields of planted GM crops.

A defeat for Monsanto is good for the rest of us.

CONTAMINATION
As Reuters reported last week, GE Canola has been found growing across North Dakota -

HEALTH RISKS
Dr. Pusztai's research showed that the unpredicted side effects from the process of genetic engineering were the likely cause of the damage to his rats in his study on the health risks of genetically engineered potatoes (not on the market). This has been the big sore spot for the biotech industry, which produces its GM seeds for corn, canola, soy, cottonseed and beet sugar using the same process.

Dr. Pusztai warns:
"The problems with GM foods may be irreversible and the true effects may only be seen well in the future. The situation is like the tobacco industry. They knew about it but they suppressed that information. They created misleading evidence that showed that the problem wasn't so serious. And all the time they knew how bad it was. Tobacco is bad enough. But genetic modification, if it is going to be problematic, if it is going to cause us real health problems, then tobacco will be nothing in comparison with this."

FDA
No labeling requirement yet exists for genetically modified foods - in spite of the 87% of Americans who say they want to know if their food has been genetically engineered.

FACT
70% of processed foods contain GE ingredients.

All the King's horses, and all the King's men.....

Yeah, how much do you want to bet that the fear monger author of this article invested in sugar then try to scare people into making the price to go up to make some quick $$! Yeah, they will revert to non-modified sugar beets and it will be business as usual! NO price jump ...

Not sure how I can link to comments (link to comment doesn't work) but ya monsanto is a really pure definition of "evil" company. I remember studying them back in college and could not believe how much damage this company inflicts on a daily basis for so many years all accross the globe. From forcing farmers to use their own genetically modified seeds and their tactics to make farmers completely dependant on monsanto seeds (which is probably why they can't go back to normal seeds now while the ban is working out...) to all the suing they do to farmers.

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"The problems could start next year, because the sugar industry has said there are not enough non-genetically modified seeds to make up for the loss of GM ones, according to the New York Times."

If america does not have enough un-gen modified seeds, then why not import them from other countries? Or am I missing something here?

I think someone at the USDoA owns stock in Truvia. What could possibly go wrong with these beets... I wonder...

After being exposed to highly genetically modified sugar beets Melvin developed the ability to have a nearly constant sugar high. He used his new found energy to defeat evil, and became the Beet Avenger!

This study is kinda late, don't you think? If 95% of all sugar beets are genetically modified it's a little late to "wonder what the environmental impact" will be. It's already happening.

That said, most of the crops we eat are "genetically modified" in one way or another. The pilgrims and Indians weren't eating the same type of corn we have today, just for example.

Beyond food, what about all these premium dog breeds? Those are genetically modified as well.

@TXSam - love it!

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Nice time to plant sugar cane...

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