'Monsanto Laws' to Remove Rights to Ban GM-Crops

GM giant Monsanto has sued more than 100 U.S. farmers, and its “seed police” have investigated thousands of others, for what the company terms illegal use of its patented genetically engineered seeds, and activists charge is “corporate extortion”.

But if the BioTech Companies have their way, soon no-one will be able to ban GM Crops. Monsanto, in particular, has been singled out for “forcing GE crops on Brazil and the rest of the rest of the world”, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.

Goodness grows in North Carolina? Not if the General Assembly approves bills that would pre-empt local regulations on genetically modified crops and trees.

House Bill 671 and Senate Bill 631 aim to prevent towns, counties or cities from passing any ordinance, regulation or resolution to control any kind of plant or plant pest (including invasive plant species). The bills would usurp local control by making the state Department of Agriculture the only body in North Carolina with the authority to regulate plants.

These bills are not a homegrown initiative, but part of a nationwide biotech industry campaign. Similar bills, containing identical language, have cropped up in at least nine other states as part of a campaign by industry to prevent citizen initiatives like those passed in three California counties last year that prohibited cultivation of genetically modified crops.

Proponents of the seed pre-emption bills, including the Agriculture Department, are championing the interests of corporate “gene giants” such as Monsanto and Syngenta — not citizens. Whether you’re for or against genetically modified seeds, the pre-emption bills represent an anti-democratic measure to take control away from communities. Just as the corporate hog industry won legislation to prohibit local jurisdictions from keeping out supersize hog farms…

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