Farmers demand feds probe Monsanto and Dow over crops and chemicals
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Published: 18 April, 2012, 23:30
Edited: 19 April, 2012, 13:06
A beekeeper holds a jar of honey from Spain as he demonstrates in front of French Monsanto headquarters in Bron (Reuters / Robert Pratta)
TAGS: SciTech, USA, Agriculture
Over 2,000 farmers and others within the food industry are threatening to take the US government to court to make sure that feds act quickly in investigating the potential outcome of a new genetically modified crop.
A coalition of concerned members of America’s agriculture community said on Wednesday that they will take legal action to ensure that the federal government investigates what will happen if biotech companies are allowed to proceed with a space-age, man-made variant of corn.