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merrily

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5. The inability to keep any crops organic once engineered crops enter the ecosytem was

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 02:27 AM

Jan 2013

raised in the Supreme Court by organic farmers. No one seemed to care, including Obama's then solicitor general, Elena Kagan.

Yeah, yeah, I know. She was "only" defending the power of the FDA (to ignore the law as to the requirement of an EPA study before the FDA can rule). Neither she nor the Obama administration was taking any position whatever in support of Monsanto.

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