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(Beyond Pesticides, September 26, 2013<\/i>) The controversial legislative rider added at the behest of Monsanto to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget bill \u00a0last spring, dubbed the \u201cMonsanto Protection Act,” \u00a0will no longer be effective after Sept. 30 under a new stopgap government funding bill being drafted by Senate Democrats. Just last week, to the dismay of many concerned groups and individuals, the House approved the extension of the provision, which protects genetically-engineered (GE) seed manufacturers \u00a0from \u00a0litigation. The provision \u00a0was included in last spring\u2019s 6-month continuing resolution (CR) spending bill<\/a> to fund the government \u00a0through the end of the month. \"\"<\/p>\n

The House approved a three-month extension<\/a> to the rider in its own short-term FY14 Continuing Resolution (CR) spending bill, which was approved last week to fund the federal government past September. But the Senate version, overseen by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), will explicitly say that the Monsanto-backed provision will end this month on September 30 before sending the bill back to the House for final approval.<\/p>\n

Wrapped in a \u201cfarmer-friendly\u201d package, the \u201cMonsanto Protection Act\u201d touched off a storm last spring as critics accused Monsanto of \u00a0trying to protect its sales of GE seeds, by overriding any court-mandated intervention of the use of GE crops based on environmental or economic risks. Essentially, the provision strips federal courts of their authority to halt the sale and planting of illegal, potentially hazardous GE crops and compel USDA to allow continued planting of the crop, thereby putting industry completely in charge through a \u201cback door approval\u201d mechanism. <\/b>It also represents an unprecedented attack on U.S. judicial review, which is an essential element of U.S. law and a critical check on government decisions that may adversely affect \u00a0human health, the environment or livelihoods.<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides joined the Center for Food Safety (CFS) \u00a0and over 120 of the nation\u2019s top organizations and businesses in sending a letter<\/a> to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Chairwoman Mikulski on September 12 calling on them to strip the rider from the bill. These groups welcomed the decision as \u201ca major victory for the food movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Barbara Mikulski, who inherited legislative agreements made under her predecessor, the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), promised that she would do everything she could to terminate the provision with the new fiscal year. But the CR posed its own challenges since typically the leadership simply extends current spending and related provisions for the life of the resolution. Under the current House version, the CR will run through December 15, but Sen. Mikulski and Sen. Pryor (D-Ark.) chairman of the agriculture appropriations subcommittee, chose to act and take it out after the end of the month. This was aided by the fact that early proponents in the House Appropriations Committee appear to have backed off of supporting the measure.<\/p>\n

According to Politico, the whole dispute has been overshadowed by the larger fight over Republican efforts to use the same CR to cut off funding needed by President Barack Obama to implement the health care reform law. But for many environmental and food safety groups, the \u201cMonsanto Protection Act\u201d became a major cause last spring, generating a huge amount of Internet traffic and calls on Obama to veto the agriculture budget.<\/p>\n

Largely as a result of prior lawsuits, USDA is required to complete environmental impact statements (EIS) to assess risks prior to both the planting and sale of GE crops. The extent and effectiveness to which the USDA carries out this requirement is in itself a source of serious dispute. Past failures to adequately review GE plantings led to legal challenges, with many court decisions calling for a moratorium on plantings until an environmental review is conducted. Monsanto and its allies have argued that what the company sought was no more than what some federal courts have done themselves in the past \u201d\u201dallow farmers to continue to use GE seed \u2014under environmental guidelines\u201d\u201dwhile the court review continues.<\/p>\n

Just recently, GE alfalfa was confirmed to have contaminated non-GE alfalfa<\/a> in Washington State. Wheat in Oregon that was also contaminated with unapproved GE wheat<\/a>, which has spurred several lawsuits<\/a> claiming this incident has led to economic losses, confirming the ability of this technology to indiscriminately contaminate non-GE crops and other wild plant species, and questions the fitness of USDA\u2019s review. While USDA claims the contamination is a \u201ccommercial issue\u201d and should be addressed by the marketplace and not the government, GE contamination has a dramatic impact on farmers. Major export countries like Japan, that restrict GE material and insist on GE labeling, have refused to purchase American GE contaminated crops, and the European Union has begun to run additional tests on U.S. shipments. In addition to contamination issues, concerns about harm to human health and the environment have prompted several state legislatures to consider bills that would require labeling of products<\/a> with GE ingredients so consumers know what they are \u00a0eating.<\/p>\n

Given the recent GE contamination episodes of wheat and alfalfa in Oregon and Washington, it is imperative that existing safeguards not be undermined for the sake of industry interests, and the authority of federal courts should be protected.<\/p>\n

For more information on the environmental hazards associated with GE technology, visit Beyond Pesticides\u2019 Genetic Engineering webpage<\/a>. The best way to avoid genetically engineered foods in the marketplace is to purchase foods that have the USDA Certified Organic Seal<\/a>. Under organic certification standards, genetically modified organisms and their byproducts are prohibited. For many other reasons<\/a>, organic products are the right choice for consumers.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested, you can see Monsanto’s response<\/a> to their Protection Act’s expiration.<\/p>\n

Source: Politico <\/a><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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But the Senate version, overseen by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), will explicitly say that the Monsanto-backed provision will end this month on September 30 before sending the bill back to the House for final approval. 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