Center for Food Safety promises legal challenge to RR alfalfa decision

摘要

The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Food Safety, a lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit challenging USDA's 2005 deregulation of Roundup Ready alfalfa, says it will file a legal challenge to the department's decision last week to fully deregulate the transgenic crop variety (see P&CP Jan. 28, Page 4). "We're disappointed with USDA's decision [on RR alfalfa], and we will be back in court representing the interest of farmers, preservation of the environment, and consumer choice," Andrew Kimbrell, CFS executive director, says in a Jan. 27 news release. "USDA has become a rogue agency in its regulation of biotech crops, and its decision to appease the few companies who seek to benefit from this technology comes despite increasing evidence that GE alfalfa will threaten the rights of farmers and consumers, as well as damage the environment."