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		<title>GM Alfalfa Creeps Back into the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Barry Estabrook, former contributing editor at Gourmet magazine and now regular contributor to the the New York Times, the Washington Post, and TheAtlantic.com: &#8220;On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) had approved the unrestricted planting of genetically modified alfalfa sold by Monsanto Co. and Forge Genetics, despite protests from organic groups and public health advocates and comments from nearly 250,000 citizens asking the department to keep this GMO genie in its bottle. With this announcement, the Obama administration showed whose side it is on in the battle between proponents of sustainable, organic agriculture and the big businesses that profit from conventional, chemical agriculture. Big Ag won. It wasn&#8217;t even close.&#8221; Idaho is at the center of this issue.  Here&#8217;s an Edible Idaho interview I did back in 2007 with writer Matt Jenkins, who had recently written a story on the controversy over genetically modified alfalfa for High Country News.  As you&#8217;ll see, genetically modified crops are as contentious today as they were back then. There&#8217;s a drama playing out in an unlikely place: the alfalfa fields of southern Idaho.  It pits farmer against farmer in a struggle that could shape the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruling on Sugar Beets not so Sweet</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/09/23/ruling-on-sugar-beets-not-so-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ruling on Monday could have a dramatic impact on agriculture in Idaho and the Northwest. According to the New York Times: “A federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before approving the crop for cultivation in the United States. The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of the beets, which have been widely adopted by farmers. In a decision issued Monday, Judge Jeffrey S. White of Federal District Court in San Francisco, said that the Agriculture Department should have done an environmental impact statement. He said it should have assessed the consequences from the likely spread of the genetically engineered trait to other sugar beets or to the related crops of Swiss chard and red table beets. The decision echoes another ruling two years ago by a different judge in the same court involving genetically engineered alfalfa. In that case, the judge later ruled that farmers could no longer plant the genetically modified alfalfa until the Agriculture Department wrote the environmental impact statement. Two years later, there is still no such assessment and the alfalfa, with rare exceptions, is not being grown.” In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Modified Alfalfa Creeps into Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2007/07/01/genetically-modified-alfalfa-creeps-into-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a drama playing out in an unlikely place: the alfalfa fields of southern Idaho. It pits farmer against farmer in a struggle that could shape the future of American agriculture. ]]></description>
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