Did Two Oregon Counties Just ban GMO crops?
Six giant agribusinesses sought to stomp out similar measures in two neighboring Oregon counties that would effectively ban genetically modified crop cultivation. Despite Big Biotech shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence the two small counties, residents voted for an all out GMO crop ban in Tuesday’s election.
Monsanto, Bayer CropScience, BASF Plant Science, Dow Agro Sciences, DuPont Pioneer and Syngenta Crop Protection contributed at least $455,000 towards a campaign to try to sway county residents to abandon the ban.
That proposal was two years in the making, upon concerns of GMO contamination via wind drifts to non-GMO fields.
http://oneradionetwork.com/latest/two-o ... s-article/
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The fight for banning GMOs by this community and others has been long and arduous, but the small victories keep adding up. All communities trying to get rid of this GMO disaster are up against the scale of these big megacorporations along with their power politically, legally, and economically. The battle has just begun.
Six giant agribusinesses sought to stomp out similar measures in two neighboring Oregon counties that would effectively ban genetically modified crop cultivation. Despite Big Biotech shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence the two small counties, residents voted for an all out GMO crop ban in Tuesday’s election.
Monsanto, Bayer CropScience, BASF Plant Science, Dow Agro Sciences, DuPont Pioneer and Syngenta Crop Protection contributed at least $455,000 towards a campaign to try to sway county residents to abandon the ban.
That proposal was two years in the making, upon concerns of GMO contamination via wind drifts to non-GMO fields.
http://oneradionetwork.com/latest/two-o ... s-article/
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The fight for banning GMOs by this community and others has been long and arduous, but the small victories keep adding up. All communities trying to get rid of this GMO disaster are up against the scale of these big megacorporations along with their power politically, legally, and economically. The battle has just begun.