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02/22/08 - Unapproved GE Corn Contaminates Food Supply
On February 22, 2008, the USDA, EPA and FDA announced that an unapproved variety of GE corn had been discovered in three types of commercial corn seed stock and have been planted on approximately 53,000 U.S. acres over the past two years.
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February 2008 - Lake County Considering GE Ban
Organizers in Lake County plan to introduce a motion to their County Board of Supervisors in March 2008 that would ban the production of all GE organisms in the county. The Coalition for Responsible Agriculture attempted a ban on Roundup Ready alfalfa in 2005, but fell one vote short of the needed majority among their Supervisors then.
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“We received your news halfway across the globe here in South Africa and wish to send you our congratulations for all your hard work. We are also fighting legislative battles here with the GMO Act having been written by pro-biotech people. So a victory for you is also a victory for us.”
-South African Freeze Alliance on Genetic Engineering, from an email January 20, 2008
Support AB541, The Food and Farm Protection Act
History of AB 541
In February 2007, Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced AB 541, the Food and Farm Protection Act. The original bill would have put in place several important protections against genetic contamination caused by GE crops. It had broad support from dozens of diverse organizations and hundreds of individuals, but it was opposed by the California Farm Bureau and other conventional agriculture groups typically supportive of genetic engineering.