By: centerforfoodsafety.org, 07/01/2013
Today, the Oregon Senate passed a bill to ban commercial production of canola (rapeseed) until 2019 inside the 3 million acre Willamette Valley Protected District, one of the world’s pre-eminent vegetable seed producing regions.
HB 2427, which passed the Senate 18-12 after passing the Oregon House last week 37-22, rolls back a controversial new policy adopted by the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) in February 2013 that would have allowed 25,000 acres of canola to be planted over the next decade in a region where the production of the plant for its seed has been banned since 2005.
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Comments
Awesome
This is great news for Oregon and everyone on the planet!
The Tipping Point has been Achieved!
It seems that the pendulum has started its swing back to the direction of common sense and sanity, finally.
This is indeed welcome news for all but Monsanto and their minions.
Blessings, All