Genetic rice suit moving forward

[nosmokes]

This is gonna be something. Rice farmers have lost $ millions in overseas sales to markets that are still closed off to them andthe long grain rice supply world wide is contaminated thanks to illegal actions on the part of Bayer.No matter what happens in court how do you compensate for that?
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original-dewitt-ee

Genetic rice suit moving forward

By Christina Verderosa

The issue of genetically modified rice may have faded from the headlines, but attorneys at the Birmingham-based law firm, Hare, Wynn, Newton and Newell are actively pursuing a lawsuit over the August 2006 incident when small quantities of GMO rice were found in the Arkansas crop.

Last Wednesday, representatives of the firm updated local farmers at a meeting sponsored by the Arkansas Rice Growers’ Association on the status of the suit. The suit started out “over a year ago, with12 farmers from Lonoke County,” attorney Jim Thompson said. There are now 287 farm entities signed onto the suit. Thompson could not give a specific number, but said afterward there were “several” from Arkansas County.

The suit names Bayer Crop Sciences who grew the GMO rice and Riceland Foods as defendants. Thompson said Bayer had the case removed from state court and sent to federal court. “That was a delaying tactic,” Thompson said. The case is now back in Lonoke County Circuit Court.

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complete article here

[scarletwoman]

1. k&r -- this is important! (nt)

[elehhhhna]

2. K&R. Our kids are eating this cr@p, whether we try to prevent it or not.

[1monster]

3. Isn't one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse famine? Perhaps genetically

modified foods will be partially responsible for that? (If one believes...)

[mike_c]

4. genetic rice...

...not to be confused with non-genetic rice, I suppose. This is what happens when Luddites are given word processors....

[truedelphi]

8. No Mike, this is not what happens when Luddites are given

Word Processers.

I used to think that Rifkin was opposing science. Why didn't he want the poor and the hungry fed? Then when friends showed me film after film, and journal article after journal article, I woke up.

Genetically modifying crops is pseudo science at best.

For instance, in Canada, we now have a sub-species of weeds that is invulnerable to RoundUp due to the genetic munipulation of rapeseed.

The small farmer is getting his or her Arse handed to them, as Monsanto claims their farm lands as payment for the small farmer growing patented crops whose seeds they did not pay for (Never mind if the seed blew in on the wind, and it wsn't deliberately planted.)

In the UK, Pusztai, one of the top researchers on the issue, tried to point out that genetically modifying potatoes with leptin was altering the lining of the lab rats' tummies. He was locked out of the lab, and his research data and computers were taken away ferom him and then in the height of hypocrisy, the scientific big guns claimed that his study was not peer reviewed. Just how he was supposed to get it peer reviewed when they took the material away from him, I have no idea.
(Now it has been peer reviewed, again and again.)

And if you were around during the big tryptophan scare of the 1980's, it was the genetically altered media that the tryptophan was growing on that ended up being responsible for the 37 people who died.

[Tuesday_Morning]

5. Winona LaDuke and Native Harvest have been fighting this fight too

Here's a link to some of their real wild rice for sale:

http://nativeharvest.com/catalog/1/wild_rice

[Poll_Blind]

6. Kick! n/t

PB

[crickets]

7. Go git 'em. Kick. -nt