date:Apr 11, 2013
the GMO opponents were caught off-guard by language inserted into HR 933 that prevents a federal judge from ordering farmers to destroy any GM crop ruled to have not to have been sufficiently vetted by USDA until October 1 of next year.
Opponents dubbed the temporary rules the Monsanto Protection Act, for the assistance it might provide to the St. Louis-based agricultural company that helped Missouris Republican Sen. Roy Blunt in drafting the language, a tiny part of a 78-page budget bill.
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