From the front of the house to the back of the house and everywhere in between.
Turns out that a district court found that the USDA — under Bush, who else? — illegally approved the sugar beets made by Monsanto — who else?
The environmental impact report was lacking any study of how planting genetically engineered sugar beets would affect non-GM and organic beet and related chard crops. GM crops can cross-pollinate with natural crops.
Despite the illegal approval, 90 percent of sugar beets grown in the U.S. — and, consequently, half of our sugar — are already genetically modified to withstand the application of the powerful Monsanto-made herbicide Roundup.
