PORTLAND -- The FBI is investigating the destruction of genetically engineered sugar beets in southern Oregon.
FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele says the damage occurred this month on private farmland in Jackson County that's leased and managed by the Swiss-based company Syngenta.

THE PEOPLE DON'T WANT GMO FOOD GROWN IN THEIR COUNTY:

genetic engineering is an issue in Jackson County, where growers of organic crops such as sugar beets and alfalfa say they want to guard against cross-pollination.

A vote is scheduled in May 2014 on a measure to bar genetically modified crops in the county, except for research. It calls for county inspection and would allow citizen lawsuits. A message left with the sponsoring group, GMO Free Jackson County, was not immediately returned.

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USDA Approves Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets

RODALE NEWS, STATE COLLEGE, PA—In an unprecedented move, one that some food safety groups call illegal, on Friday afternoon the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the planting and sale of genetically engineered, also known as GE, GMO, and Roundup Ready, sugar beets. The agency’s announcement is allowing the springtime planting of GE sugar beets in a way that’s never been done before, without a completed environmental impact study (EIS). “They’re going by the seat of their pants. They’ve never, ever done this with a plant,” says Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, an environmental watchdog group that’s been involved in litigation blocking GE crops, including past lawsuits challenging the approval of GE sugar beets, for years. Kimbrell learned of the GE sugar beet approval while attending the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable in State College, where he gave a presentation regarding the dangers of GMOs and the general lack of benefits they offer to consumers. “They only offer risk,” he says.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Genetically-engineered-sugar-beets-damaged-in-Ore-212373581.html

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SWISS COMPANY SYNGENTA CAN'T GROW GMO CROPS IN SWITZERLAND:

One major irony in the Syngenta case is that the company's GM sugar beets are not even legal in its own home country of Switzerland.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/041044_GM_sugar_beets_food_freedom_fighters_Monsanto.html#ixzz2XukRzeat

Just more hysteria and ignorance over GM foods.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/09/20/scientists-savage-study-purportedly-showing-health-dangers-of-monsantos-genetically-modified-corn/

http://www.policynetwork.net/environment/media/gm-food-and-harm-hysteria

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-11/swap-frankenfood-hysterics-for-accuracy-in-food-labeling.html

" Ingredients in as much as 75 percent of packaged food have had their DNA altered to resist pests, tolerate excessive heat or grow with less water."

PORTLAND -- The FBI is investigating the destruction of genetically engineered sugar beets in southern Oregon.
FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele says the damage occurred this month on private farmland in Jackson County that's leased and managed by the Swiss-based company Syngenta.

THE PEOPLE DON'T WANT GMO FOOD GROWN IN THEIR COUNTY:

genetic engineering is an issue in Jackson County, where growers of organic crops such as sugar beets and alfalfa say they want to guard against cross-pollination.

A vote is scheduled in May 2014 on a measure to bar genetically modified crops in the county, except for research. It calls for county inspection and would allow citizen lawsuits. A message left with the sponsoring group, GMO Free Jackson County, was not immediately returned.

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USDA Approves Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets

RODALE NEWS, STATE COLLEGE, PA—In an unprecedented move, one that some food safety groups call illegal, on Friday afternoon the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the planting and sale of genetically engineered, also known as GE, GMO, and Roundup Ready, sugar beets. The agency’s announcement is allowing the springtime planting of GE sugar beets in a way that’s never been done before, without a completed environmental impact study (EIS). “They’re going by the seat of their pants. They’ve never, ever done this with a plant,” says Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, an environmental watchdog group that’s been involved in litigation blocking GE crops, including past lawsuits challenging the approval of GE sugar beets, for years. Kimbrell learned of the GE sugar beet approval while attending the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable in State College, where he gave a presentation regarding the dangers of GMOs and the general lack of benefits they offer to consumers. “They only offer risk,” he says.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Genetically-engineered-sugar-beets-damaged-in-Ore-212373581.html

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SWISS COMPANY SYNGENTA CAN'T GROW GMO CROPS IN SWITZERLAND:

One major irony in the Syngenta case is that the company's GM sugar beets are not even legal in its own home country of Switzerland.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/041044_GM_sugar_beets_food_freedom_fighters_Monsanto.html#ixzz2XukRzeat

There is no reason to genetically modify food. Monsanto is doing it just so they can monopolize seeds and patent them to prevent anyone else from harvesting their own seeds.

They are creating crops that don't reproduce and they are suing farmers who harvest any Monsanto crops seeds claiming that they own patent on them.

GMO foods and seeds don't grow any better than natural seeds. There have been studies that they are HARMFUL that have been covered up big time.

A European regulatory requirement for genetic safety testing, which is not required in Canada or the US, has revealed genetic instability in many GM crop varieties.

Scientists are finding harmful impacts on soil micro-organisms, beneficial insects and laboratory animals exposed to genetically modified crops and GE food. Farmers in India are committing suicide by the hundreds in Andra Pradesh and other states because of GM crop failures.