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Alliance for Natural Health On September 20, 2011
http://www.anh-usa.org/whose-side-is-usda-really-on/
Last week, USDA secretary Tom Vilsack gave a clear directive to his department’s new Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21): come up with a plan [2] to compensate organic and conventional farmers whose crops become contaminated because of genetically engineered foods.
This directive is clearly intended to sound like it will help farmers. But we think it is actually intended to help Monsanto. To see why we think this, a bit of background.
The committee is comprised of a broad spectrum of interested parties [3]: organic scientists and organic trade organizations, conventional farming industry reps (including makers of high-fructose corn syrup), DuPont, agriculture experts, genetic engineering companies, lawyers, and a few concerned individuals.
As we reported recently, courts have increasingly been siding against GE and biotech farming [4] when surrounding farms and products become contaminated. Bayer CropScience recently agreed to pay up to $750 million [5] to farmers in the Midwest to settle lawsuits over its contamination of the US rice supply.