In a huge break for the United States’ anti-GMO movement, a federal judge ruled that the US Fish & Wildlife Service should not have allowed genetically modified crops to be planted within a Prime Hook, a national wildlife refuge in Delaware.
The suit, filed by the Center for Food Safety, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and the Audubon Society in Delaware, challenged that the US Fish & Wildlife Service knowingly put habitat at risk when it allowed farmers to plant GMO’s inside the 10,000-acre wildlife refuge. The results were better than anyone expected.
Not only did the federal agency not study the effects of GMO’s on wildlife enough, but the judge said that the federal agency did “not contest that their own biologists determined that these activities posed significant environmental risks to Prime Hook, including biological contamination, increased weed resistance and damage to soils.”
Environmental groups already have plans to use this ruling to go after GMO farming within other wildlife refuges across the US. The ruling has the potential to rejuvenate the anti-GMO movement and perhaps spur further research into their effects.
[Via: stltoday.com]
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Alex Felsinger
Alex is primarily concerned with animal welfare, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice. As a freelance writer in San Francisco, he leads a deliberately simplistic and thrifty lifestyle, yet still can’t help gawking at the newest green gadgets and zero-emission concept cars.
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I can’t thank you enough for all of your input on Monsanto and GM foods. Absolutely fantastic and in depth. Thank you for your great compassion: we are all a part of The Family of Man and need to have the right to be able to eat food that will keep us healthy and active so that we can all help this earth!
Why should we be afraid of what we eat and have to question it? How dare Monsanto this to us! We all need PEACE of MIND to be able to do well wit our lives. I “Throw Paint”, and love it, but I just had to take the time to learn s much as I could – and will do so more, about GMO Food!
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