{"id":3209,"date":"2010-03-02T01:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2010-03-02T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T05:09:42","slug":"groups-sue-to-block-ge-crops-from-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2010\/03\/groups-sue-to-block-ge-crops-from-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Sue to Block GE Crops from Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"> (<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, March 2, 2010) A <a href=\"http:\/\/peer.org\/docs\/nwr\/3_1_10_Bombay_Hook_Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> filed March 1, 2010 in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 80 other national wildlife refuges across the country now growing GE crops are vulnerable to similar suits. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/owow\/wetlands\/images\/contest2002\/obrien.jpg\" title=\"Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Filed in the U.S. District Court for Delaware by the Widener Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic on behalf of Delaware Audubon Society, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Food Safety, the federal suit charges that the Fish &#038; Wildlife Service had illegally entered into Cooperative Farming Agreements with private parties, allowing hundreds of acres to be plowed over without the environmental review required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  <\/p>\n<p>In March 2009, the same groups won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=1481\">similar lawsuit<\/a> against GE plantings on Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.  Ironically, Prime Hook has now been administratively incorporated into Bombay Hook, meaning that the same refuge management that is overseeing execution of the Prime Hook verdict is violating its tenets on Bombay Hook. In August 2009, several environmental groups led by the Center for Food Safety and PEER wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to alert him to the implications of the Prime Hook ruling and asking him to \u201cissue a moratorium on all GE crop cultivation in National Wildlife Refuges.\u201d Secretary Salazar has never responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy definition, these refuges are to be administered to benefit wildlife, not farmers,\u201d stated PEER Counsel Christine Erickson, noting that Fish &#038; Wildlife Service policy explicitly forbids \u201cgenetically modified agricultural crops in refuge management unless [they] determine their use is essential to accomplishing refuge purpose(s).\u201d  \u201cGE crops serve no legitimate refuge purpose, and in fact impair the objectives for which the wildlife sanctuaries were originally established,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>National wildlife refuges have allowed farming for decades to help prepare seed beds for native grasslands and provide food for migratory birds.  In recent years, however, refuge farming has been converted to GE crops because that is only seed farmers can obtain. Today, the vast majority of crops grown on refuges are genetically engineered. <\/p>\n<p>Yet farming on wildlife refuges often interferes with protection of wildlife and native grasses.  Scientists also warn that GE crops can lead to increased pesticide use on refuges and can have other negative effects on birds, aquatic animals, and other wildlife. In the Prime Hook case, Federal District Court Chief Judge Gregory Sleet found that, \u201cIt is undisputed that farming with genetically modified crops at Prime Hook poses significant environmental risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing genetically engineered crops designed to be used in conjunction with repeated applications of pesticides is a practice in direct opposition to the mission of the National Wildlife Refuges: to serve as safe havens for wildlife,\u201d said Paige Tomasilli, staff attorney with the Center for Food Safety. \u201cThe fact that farmers can obtain no other seeds underscores the questionable business practices of companies like Monsanto that are trying to limit farmer and consumer choice in order to sell more chemical pesticides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the suit will enjoin any cultivation of GE crops on Bombay Hook until environmental assessments required by the National Environmental Policy Act have been completed. Meanwhile, unless practices on the refuges change, PEER and the Center for Food Safety are preparing new suits against other refuges with GE farming programs.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Pesticides opposes the use of GE crops. Whether it is the incorporation into food crops of genes from a natural bacterium (Bt) or the development of a herbicide resistant crop, the approach to pest management is short sighted and dangerous. Last month, Friends of the Earth International released the report, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/GMOs\/Who_Benefits\/who_benefits_full_report_2010.pdf\">Who Benefits from GM Crops?<\/a><\/em>, which examines industry claims and finds that GE crops actually increase carbon emissions while failing to feed the world. For other studies and more information on GE crops, see Beyond Pesticides\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/organicfood\/index.htm\">GE program page<\/a> and past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?cat=5\">Daily News<\/a> entries on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAKE ACTION: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=3048\">Public Comments Needed To Stop Genetically Engineered Alfalfa in the U.S.<\/a> The USDA says consumers do not care about genetic contamination. If you disagree, tell them they are wrong by tomorrow- Wednesday, March 3, 2010.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, March 2, 2010) A lawsuit filed March 1, 2010 in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. 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