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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/gmo-labeling-center-for-food-safety-2585717757.html" style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; font-size: 25px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">GMO Labeling: Public Interest Advocacy Group Sues Trump Over Secrecy</a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2585717757" data-authors="Center for Food Safety" data-headline="GMO Labeling: Public Interest Advocacy Group Sues Trump Over Secrecy" style="margin: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;">Last week, <a href="https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Center for Food Safety</a> (CFS) <a href="https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/2018-07-03-dkt-01-cfs-complaint_60883.pdf" target="blank" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">sued</a> the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump</a> Administration for refusing to make public documents surrounding its decision on how to label genetically engineered (GE or <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/gmo-genetically-modified-organism/" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">GMO</a>) foods. On May 3, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released long-awaited proposed regulations for the first-ever U.S. mandatory disclosure of foods produced using genetic engineering. Earlier this year, CFS sought the public data and documents about the rulemaking under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but the administration failed to make public any information, leading to this CFS lawsuit to force that disclosure.</p></div></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">golden rice not certified b/c does nor work</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/the-ralph-nader-radio-hour-june-18-2018/">https://kpfa.org/episode/the-ralph-nader-radio-hour-june-18-2018/</a></font></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew Kimbrell, returns to make the case that passing food labeling laws will spell the end of the GMO industry</font></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ctr for food safety</font></span></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> =</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/gmo-food-labels-qr-codes-2565811298.html" class="external text" title="https://www.ecowatch.com/gmo-food-labels-qr-codes-2565811298.html" rel="nofollow" lock_icon.gif="lock_icon.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; background: url(">Proposed GMO Food Labeling Could Leave 100 Million Americans in the Dark</a> see <a href="https://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Genetically_Modified_Organisms#News.2FArticles" class="external text" title="https://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Genetically Modified Organisms#News.2FArticles" rel="nofollow" lock_icon.gif="lock_icon.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; background: url(">GMO's</a> 5/18.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday released the long-awaited proposed regulations for the mandatory disclosure of <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/food/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">foods</a> produced using genetic engineering (GE or <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/gmo-genetically-modified-organism/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">GMO</a>), which it calls "bioengineered foods."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The regulations come out of a 2016 law signed by President Obama prohibiting existing state GE labeling laws, such as Vermont's, that required on-package GE labeling, and instead created a federal "disclosure" program, which for the first time creates a nationwide standard of required GE disclosure. There now will be a 60 day public comment period. The 2016 law requires that USDA issue the final rules by July 29, 2018.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public comments will be particularly important because the proposal presents a range of alternatives for public comments and makes few decisions, leaving considerable unknowns about its outcome. For example, instead of requiring clear, on-package labeling in the form of text or a symbol, USDA proposes to allow manufacturers to instead choose to use "QR codes," which are encoded images on a package that must be scanned and are intended to substitute for clear, on-package labeling.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Real-time access to the information behind the QR code image requires a smartphone and a reliable broadband connection, technologies often lacking in rural areas. As a result, this labeling option would discriminate against more than 100 million Americans who do not have access to this technology. Last fall, <a href="https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/5061/victory-usda-releases-gmo-labeling-study" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">CFS forced the public disclosure</a> of USDA's study on the efficacy of this labeling, which showed it would not provide adequate disclosure to millions of Americans.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"USDA should not allow QR codes," stated <b>Andrew Kimbrell, executive director at Center for Food Safety (CFS).</b> "USDA's own study found that QR codes are inherently discriminatory against one third of Americans who do not own smartphones, and even more so against rural, low income, and elderly populations or those without access to the internet. USDA should mandate on-package text or symbol labeling as the only fair and effective means of disclosure for GE foods."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When it comes to on-package text or symbols, USDA proposes to disallow the terms "genetic engineering or GMO," and use only the term "bioengineered," or "BE," despite the fact that genetic engineering and GMO have been the terms used for 30-plus years by consumers, companies and regulators. Many food companies have long used the terms genetic engineered, GE, or GMO, and thousands of products are currently labeled as such (e.g., Non-GMO).</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"USDA's exclusion of the well-established terms, GE and GMO, as options will confuse and mislead consumers, and the agency must instead allow the use of those terms," added Kimbrell.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Another big question left unanswered by the proposal is whether or not "highly refined" GE foods will be covered,</b> such as cooking oils, candies, or sodas that have ingredients derived from GE crops, but are in processed form such that in the final product, the GE content may or may not be detectable. USDA is taking comments on whether or not to include these products, with two differing alternatives including or excluding them. The proposal also seeks comments on how to deal with newer forms of genetic engineering—which often go by different names such as<b> synthetic biology, gene-editing, or CRISPR</b>—and whether or not to include foods produced through them.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Excluding highly processed GE foods would mean that consumers would be wrongly left in the dark about thousands of GE products," said Bill Freese, CFS's science policy analyst. "These products, as well as those from newer forms of genetic engineering, must be subject to mandatory labeling if this rule is to be meaningful."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other major issues on which USDA is taking comment are what threshold to use for GE content, the timing of compliance, enforcement and record-keeping requirements.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CFS has been fighting for mandatory GE food labeling for over two decades at the federal and state levels. CFS provided legal and policy support to dozens of states that introduced GE labeling legislation, including Vermont which passed its GE labeling law in May 2014. CFS also helped successfully defend the Vermont law in court.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is a 'Call to Action' to all Americans who have waited for decades to finally have GE foods labeled. Now is the time to tell the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Trump</a> administration to do the right thing and meaningfully label these foods," declared Kimbrell.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><h1 class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></h1><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-ok-of-corporations-plan-to-drain-california-desert-aquifier-2513542263.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-ok-of-corporations-plan-to-drain-california-desert-aquifier-2513542263.html</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Approval of Corporation's Plan to Drain California Desert Aquifer</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2513542263" data-authors="Earthjustice" data-headline="Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Approval of Corporation's Plan to Drain California Desert Aquifer" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservation and health-safety groups <a href="https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/1%20Complaint%2011-28-17.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">filed suit</a> on Tuesday in federal court challenging the Trump administration's approval of an enormous groundwater-mining and pipeline project in Southern California. The Cadiz water project, approved without environmental review, includes the construction of a pipeline through the Mojave Trails National Monument and other public lands in the area.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tuesday's lawsuit notes that the Trump administration reversed two Obama administration decisions and wrongly concluded that the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/bernhardt-senate-vote-2411491233.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cadiz project</a>'s 43-mile pipeline did not require any federal Bureau of Land Management permits or approvals. The BLM is allowing the developer to build the pipeline within an existing railroad right-of-way, paving the way for Cadiz to pump 16 billion gallons of water a year from the fragile desert aquifer to sprawling new developments in Southern California.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Cadiz project will suck the desert dry while developers count their money," said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist with the <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Biological Diversity</a>. "It's an unsustainable water-privatization scheme. Pumping ancient groundwater from the Mojave Desert to water suburban lawns in Orange County will devastate desert <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildlife" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wildlife</a> and the entire ecosystem relying on that water for survival."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If allowed to move forward, the Cadiz water-mining project would drain life-giving springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument and surrounding public lands, killing vegetation and destroying key habitat for a host of desert wildlife, including the threatened <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/reptiles/desert_tortoise/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">desert tortoises</a>, bighorn sheep, <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/reptiles/Mojave_fringe-toed_lizard/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mojave fringe-toed lizards</a> and <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/desert_kit_fox/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">kit foxes</a>. Hydrologists from the U.S. Geological Survey determined that the Cadiz project is unsustainable and that the company's privately funded study vastly overstates the aquifer's recharge rate.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Trump administration's approval of the Cadiz project is crony capitalism at its worst," said Adam Keats, senior attorney with the <a href="https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Food Safety</a>. "So much life relies on this precious desert groundwater, yet under Trump apparently the only thing that matters is how much money you have and who your friends are in government."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The project's approval followed the appointment of <a href="https://earthjustice.org/blog/2017-may/fossil-fuel-lobbyist-picked-for-post-at-interior" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Bernhardt</a>, a deputy Interior Department secretary and former lobbyist for Cadiz. Bernhardt's former employer, the Washington-based law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, continues to represent Cadiz.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Cadiz, Inc. is just another corporation looking to profit by selling off an irreplaceable public resource," said Greg Loarie, an attorney at <a href="https://earthjustice.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Earthjustice</a> who is representing the groups filing suit. "The Trump administration would love to give Cadiz a free pass around our environmental laws, but we're not going to let that happen."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food Safety have also filed <a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/Cadiz/pdfs/2017-09-27_FOIA_Requests_RE_Cadiz_Water_Project.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">public records requests</a> for documents that could shed light on the Trump administration's abrupt decision to allow the Cadiz project to move forward. <span style="text-align: center;">In addition to Earthjustice, the groups are represented by Adam Keats at the Center for Food Safety and Aruna Prabhala and Lisa Belenky at the Center for Biological Diversity.</span></font></p></div></div></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/20/fda-sued-gmo-salmon/</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opposition against the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/19/fda-approves-gmo-salmon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">approval of</a> the first <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/food-agriculture/gmo-genetically-modified-organism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">genetically engineered</a> food animal, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=AquaBounty" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">AquaBounty</a>’s GMO salmon, is fiercely mounting.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Food Safety, an nonprofit organization, announced plans to sue the federal agency. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/21/2015 <b>Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar | Genetic Literacy Project</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>1/5</div><div>www.geneticliteracyproject.org</div><div>
</div><div>Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar</div><div>Rebecca Larson | December 14, 2015 | Genetic Literacy Project</div><div>
</div><div>Roughly 55 percent of the United States</div><div>sugar supply is derived from sugar beets,</div><div>the remainder from sugarcane. Until</div><div>recently, no one really cared about the</div><div>source of their sugar, because the end</div><div>product, pure sucrose, is identical. What</div><div>changed the dialogue was the introduction</div><div>of and acceptance of genetically</div><div>engineered (GE) sugar beets. Right from</div><div>the start and continuing today, antiGMO</div><div>organizations have tried their hardest to</div><div>scare people about where their sugar is</div><div>sourced from:</div><div>12/21/2015 Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar | Genetic Literacy Project</div><div>2/5</div><div>Those are bizarre claims because sucrose — sugar — whether derived from sugar cane or</div><div>sugar beets, contains to DNA. No lab could determine its source. Warnings to consumers to</div><div>boycott socalled GMO sugar makes no scientific sense.</div><div><b>Kevin Folta, Chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida,</b></div><div>nicely illustrates how all sugar is the same, regardless of source.</div><div>This has been proven in the lab. The sugar is free from DNA and protein since it is all chewed</div><div>up during the refining process. This has also been proven at the commercial scale. Every sugar</div><div>beet processing plant in the U.S. and Canada has been screened by an independent testing</div><div>organization and all the sugar was found to be GMOfree.</div><div>Other countries freely accept and understand this unique quality of sugar and some, like</div><div>Australia, allow sugar derived from GE sugar beets to be labeled as GMOfree since the final</div><div>product contains no GE trait.</div><div>12/21/2015 Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar | Genetic Literacy Project</div><div>3/5</div><div><b>GE sugar grown in cooperative farms</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>In a time when many people are interested</div><div>in supporting small farms and buying food</div><div>locally, it is also sadly ironic that sugar</div><div>beets are being so vilified. Most sugar</div><div>beets in the U.S. are sourced from grower-owned</div><div>cooperatives. Small family farmers</div><div>run the whole business from the planting of</div><div>the seed to sale of the sugar. Their job has</div><div>become increasingly difficult because of</div><div>the fear and misinformation related to</div><div>contamination and elimination of choice</div><div>rooted in activist opposition to GE sugar</div><div>beets.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Jeffrey Smith, the former yogic flying instructor who runs the oneman NGO</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">pompously named The Institute for Responsible Technology</span>, GE sugar beets contain</div><div>pharmaceutical properties. That’s plain false. There is only one type of GE sugar beet seed:</div><div>herbicide tolerant. This sugar beet was genetically engineered by introducing a slightly</div><div>modified version of a gene (based on a bacterial sequence) that naturally occurs in all plants.</div><div>That precise, minor genetic change has manifested into large environmental benefit for sugar</div><div>beet farmers.</div><div>Prior to commercial approval of the GE sugar beet, a comprehensive, peer reviewed study</div><div>conducted at the University of Reading in Britain concluded that cultivating GE herbicide</div><div>tolerant sugar beets is less harmful to the environment and human health than farming</div><div>conventional sugar beets.</div><div>
</div><div>… global warming, ozone depletion, ecotoxicity of water and acidification and</div><div>nutrification of soil and water, were much lower for the herbicidetolerant crop than for</div><div>the conventional crop. Emissions contributing to summer smog, toxic particulate matter</div><div>and carcinogenicity, which have negative human health impacts, were also substantially</div><div>lower for the herbicidetolerant crop.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Since 2009, glyphosate tolerant sugar beets have made up more than 95 percent of the</b></div><div><b>commercial sugar beet production in the U.S.</b> Over that time, inputs and productivity data</div><div>gathered from farmerowned cooperatives show 25 environmental benefits to using GE sugar</div><div>beets, ranging from 20 percent higher yields and reduced chemical input, to implementation of</div><div>conservation tillage and reduced fossil fuel consumption. The findings highlight the</div><div>importance of genetic engineering in the long term sustainability of the farmerowned</div><div>industry.</div><div>12/21/2015 Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar | Genetic Literacy Project</div><div>4/5</div><div>
</div><div>In 2015, the cooperatives submitted a formal report to the National Academy of Sciences as</div><div>part of their mission to improve public policy, decision making and public understanding of</div><div>science. So when antiGMO ideologues such as Washingtonbased Green America asks</div><div>whether sugar beets can be nonGE in the future, the real question should be should sugar</div><div>beets be nonGE in the future? With so many benefits to the growers and the planet, my</div><div>answer to that question would be a resounding “no”. Nevertheless, all commercial sugar beet</div><div>seed companies still actively produce conventional seeds so the U.S. farmers and food</div><div>marketers will always have a choice as to whether or not they want to embrace GE technology.</div><div>
</div><div>What about cross contamination?</div><div>
</div><div>Sugar beets are biennial and do not produce flowers when grown for sugar; the only time</div><div>pollen is shed from a sugar beet plant is during seed production. All commercial seed</div><div>production for the entire U.S. occurs in Oregon. Sugar beets are close relatives of Swiss chard</div><div>and table beets, so they can fertilize each other and they are all present in Oregon.</div><div>Upon introduction of GE sugar beets, the sugar beet seed companies recognized the need to</div><div>voluntarily implement practices to reduce the risk of unintended pollen flow. They identified</div><div>publically where they were located so organic farmers could mind isolation distances, they</div><div>increased their minimum isolation distance to greater than twice the Oregon Seed Certification</div><div>program mandate, and they moved the GE trait to the female side of the hybrid (the side that</div><div>does not produce pollen) so only conventional pollen would be present.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite these measures, in 2008, the activist Center for Food Safety backed an Oregon organic</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">seed producer, Frank Morton, in suing the Federal government over the perceived threat of</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">contamination</span>. Despite all the uproar, claims of lost business and imminent threat, Morton still</div><div>rund a thriving business today. Morton is not alone in overexaggerating risk. As the Genetic</div><div>Literacy Project wrote in an article posted in November, “There is no record that any farmer in</div><div>the U.S. has ever lost certification as a result of socalled “contamination” — although one</div><div>would never know it based on the propaganda on the web.”</div><div>
</div><div>12/21/2015 Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar | Genetic Literacy Project</div><div>5/5</div><div>
</div><div>When examining the facts behind the fear, the risks associated with biotech beets is minimal.</div><div>Although there is an overwhelming scientific consensus on GE crop safety, some are still leery</div><div>of consuming foods made with crops grown from GE seeds, but with sugar, the product in the</div><div>bag is still GMOfree. Moreover, production farm data has shown that using GE sugar beets to</div><div>produce that sugar is friendly for the farmer and our environment.</div><div>With solid coexistence strategies among farmers in place, there is little threat that one farmer’s</div><div>choice to cultivate GE sugar beets would negatively impact his neighbor’s ability to raise</div><div>organic crops. Advocacy groups that encourage consumers to avoid sugar derived from GE</div><div>sugar beets really only target small, farmerowned businesses.</div><div>
</div><div>Rebecca Larson holds a doctorate in plant pathology and is the proud mother of a</div><div>bouncing baby boy. Follow Rebecca at @sugaryfacts.</div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12/15 DARK act</font></p><p style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(70, 69, 74); background-color: rgb(250, 248, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">s expected, a number of farm state Democrats joined House Republicans in passing this bill under immense pressure from the major agribusiness lobby. On the other hand, 12 Republicans voted against the bill citing infringement of states’ rights and local control. With only a limited number of Democratic defectors, this anti-consumer bill will likely receive a cold reception in the Senate. A Senate version of this bill has not yet been introduced.</font></p><p style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(70, 69, 74); background-color: rgb(250, 248, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/976/ge-food-labeling/reports/1413/genetically-engineered-food-labeling-laws-map" target="blank" style="color: rgb(238, 89, 59); text-decoration: none;">64 countries around the world</a> require GE food labeling and have not reported higher food costs as a result. More than 30 <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=13981" target="blank" style="color: rgb(238, 89, 59); text-decoration: none;">states introduced legislation</a> to require GE labeling in 2013 and 2014, with laws recently passed in Vermont, Connecticut and Maine.</font></p><p style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(70, 69, 74); background-color: rgb(250, 248, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for Food Safety supports bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator Boxer and Representative DeFazio called the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, which would require that food manufacturers label foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. This common sense bill would guarantee all Americans the right to know what is in their foods while respecting the need by companies for a uniform, federal standard.</font></p><p style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(70, 69, 74); background-color: rgb(250, 248, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A number of messaging amendments were offered by champions of labeling and states’ rights intended to underscore the bill’s flaws, however all four failed to pass.  Leading opponent of the bill, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) offered an amendment that if passed would have required that any U.S. company who produces a product in the U.S. be bound by the same labeling requirement held in another country. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) offered an amendment that would have removed everything from the underlying bill with the exception of provisions establishing a non-GMO certification program at USDA. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) offered an amendment to specify that as FDA defines the term “natural,” that it does so to exclude GE foods and ingredients. An amendment offered by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) would have ensured that the preemption provisions in the underlying bill do not abdicate the sovereign right of Native American tribes to prohibit or restrict the cultivation of GE crops on tribal lands. An amendment to change the name to the Denying Americans the Right to Know or DARK Act was introduced by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) after the final vote.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/">http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/</a>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for Food Safety uses multifaceted strategies, including legal actions, submission of policy comments and <a href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/what-we-do/public-education/"><span>public education</span></a>, to accomplish its goals of curtailing industrial agricultural production methods that harm human health and the environment, and promoting sustainable alternatives.</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CFS also provides technical assistance to numerous legislative initiatives championed by other non-profit organizations around the country. Public outreach and advocacy staff work to educate and <a href="http://cfs.convio.net/feed/rss2_0/alerts.rss">activate</a> CFS members and consumers about key food and agriculture actions and issues, and to mobilize their support for all CFS legal, policy and grassroots actions. CFS’s <a href="http://www.truefoodnow.org/">True Food Network</a> is our grassroots action network, and is a resource for anyone interested in learning more about important food issues and voicing their opinion!</font>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b>Center for Food Safety</b>, founded in 1997 by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Center_for_Technology_Assessment" title="International Center for Technology Assessment" class="mw-redirect">International Center for Technology Assessment</a> (ICTA) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icta.org/template/index.cfm">web</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/10324.htm">[1]</a>, describes itself as a "U.S. non-profit organization" "that works to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic foods and other forms of sustainable agriculture. Among the issues the organization works on are: genetically modified foods, organic food standards, aquaculture, animal cloning, food irradiation, sythetic hormones (such <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/RBGH" title="RBGH">rBGH</a>), and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mad_cow_disease" title="Mad cow disease">mad cow disease</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org">[2]</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The organization received a four-star ("exceptional") <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/10324.htm">rating</a> from the charitable oversight organization <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charity_Navigator&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charity Navigator (page does not exist)">Charity Navigator</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.charitynavigator.org">[3]</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note: The Center for Food Safety is not the same organization as the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_Safety%26_Applied_Nutrition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (page does not exist)">Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition</a>, which is part of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Department_of_Agriculture" title="U.S. Department of Agriculture">U.S. Department of Agriculture</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/">[4]</a></font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accessed August 2009: <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_Safety#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup></font></p>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Kimbrell" title="Andrew Kimbrell">Andrew Kimbrell</a>, Executive Director</font></li>

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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Zelig_Kevin_Golden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zelig Kevin Golden (page does not exist)">Zelig Kevin Golden</a>, Staff Attorney</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jaydee_Hanson" title="Jaydee Hanson">Jaydee Hanson</a>, Policy Analyst on Cloning and Genetics</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Kimbrell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Kimbrell (page does not exist)">George Kimbrell</a>, Staff Attorney</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lorin_Kleinman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lorin Kleinman (page does not exist)">Lorin Kleinman</a>, Office Manager</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Meredith_Niles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meredith Niles (page does not exist)">Meredith Niles</a>, Cool Foods Campaign Coordinator</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paige_Tomaselli" title="Paige Tomaselli">Paige Tomaselli</a>, Staff Attorney</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_H._Wenzel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William H. Wenzel (page does not exist)">William H. Wenzel</a>, Policy Advisor</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heather_Whitehead&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heather Whitehead (page does not exist)">Heather Whitehead</a>, True Food Network Director</font></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Former_Personnel"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Personnel</font></span></h3>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Staff profiles are available <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/staff_bios.cfm">here</a>.</font></p>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Kimbrell" title="Andrew Kimbrell">Andrew Kimbrell</a>, Executive Director</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_Mendelson,_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Mendelson, III (page does not exist)">Joseph Mendelson, III</a>, Legal Director</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Katherine_McElhinny&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katherine McElhinny (page does not exist)">Katherine McElhinny</a>, Director of Foundation Relations</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Margulis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Margulis (page does not exist)">Charles Margulis</a>, CA Outreach Coordinator</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Will_Rostov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Will Rostov (page does not exist)">Will Rostov</a>, CA Senior Attorney</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kevin_Zelig_Golden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kevin Zelig Golden (page does not exist)">Kevin Zelig Golden</a>, CA Staff Attorney</font></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Advisory_Board"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advisory Board</font></span></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Accessed August 2009: <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_Safety#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup></font></p>

<ul>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Melanie_Adcock" title="Melanie Adcock">Melanie Adcock</a> - Ecological Agriculture Program Officer, Foundation for Deep Ecology</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Colby&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Colby (page does not exist)">Michael Colby</a> - President, Food & Water</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jay_Feldman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay Feldman (page does not exist)">Jay Feldman</a> - President, National Campaign Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joan_Gussow" title="Joan Gussow" class="mw-redirect">Joan Gussow</a> - Professor, Columbia University</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tony_Kleese&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tony Kleese (page does not exist)">Tony Kleese</a> - Sustainable Farming Program</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cheryl_Long&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cheryl Long (page does not exist)">Cheryl Long</a> - Research Editor, Organic Gardening Magazine</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Margaret_Mellon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margaret Mellon (page does not exist)">Margaret Mellon</a> - Director, Biotechnology & Agriculture Project, Union of Concerned Scientists</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nora_Pouillen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nora Pouillen (page does not exist)">Nora Pouillen</a> - Chef & Owner, Restaurant Nora</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abby_Rockefeller" title="Abby Rockefeller">Abby Rockefeller</a> - President, The ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems (RILES)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Stauber" title="John Stauber">John Stauber</a> - former Executive Director, Center for Media & Democracy</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Martin_Teitel" title="Martin Teitel">Martin Teitel</a> - Executive Director, Council for Responsible Genetics</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roger_Blobaum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Blobaum (page does not exist)">Roger Blobaum</a> - President, Blobaum & Associates</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Ehrenfeld" title="David Ehrenfeld" class="mw-redirect">David Ehrenfeld</a> - Professor of Ecology, Rutgers University</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Goodman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jim Goodman (page does not exist)">Jim Goodman</a> & <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rebecca_Goodman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rebecca Goodman (page does not exist)">Rebecca Goodman</a> - Farmers/Activists</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Hansen" title="Michael Hansen">Michael Hansen</a> - Scientist, Consumers Union</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sheldon_Krimsky" title="Sheldon Krimsky">Sheldon Krimsky</a> - Professor, Tufts University</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Lyman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Howard Lyman (page does not exist)">Howard Lyman</a> - Executive Director, Voice for a Viable Future</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Moonen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rick Moonen (page does not exist)">Rick Moonen</a> - Chef & Co-Owner, Oceana</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Regal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Regal (page does not exist)">Philip Regal</a> - Professor of Ecology, University of Minnesota</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Ritchie" title="Mark Ritchie">Mark Ritchie</a> - President, Institute for Agricultural & Trade Policy (IATP)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Sligh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Sligh (page does not exist)">Michael Sligh</a> - Director, Sustainable Agriculture Program, Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Strohman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Strohman (page does not exist)">Richard Strohman</a> - Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California at Berkeley</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alice_Waters" title="Alice Waters">Alice Waters</a> - Chef, Author, & Owner of Chez Panisse</font></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Details"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact Details</font></span></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Food Safety

660 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, #302

Washington DC 20003

Phone: (202) 547-9359

Fax: (202) 547-9429

Email: office AT centerforfoodsafety.org

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/">http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/</a>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_and_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Resources and articles</font></span></h2>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_Sourcewatch_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related Sourcewatch articles</font></span></h3>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_Safety#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/staff_bios.cfm">Staff</a>, Center for Food Safety, accessed August 25, 2009.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_Safety#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/board_of_a.cfm">Advisory Board</a>, Center for Food Safety, accessed August 25, 2009.</span></font></li>

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