http://corduroyorange.com/?p=85 The only Food Blog written by Jesse Sharrard Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:27:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=85#comment-348 Bernie Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:59:37 +0000 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=85#comment-348 Great post. Thanks for information and links. I am spreading the word on my own blog. No more GMO's! We want REAL food! Great post. Thanks for information and links. I am spreading the word on my own blog. No more GMO’s! We want REAL food!

]]> http://corduroyorange.com/?p=85#comment-291 Professor joe cummins Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:11:36 +0000 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=85#comment-291 The web site report was very well done and accurate. However, just last Friday Nov. 24,2006 USDA decided to grant the nonregulated status to LLRICE601. There had been about 300 comments from people from industry and academe who wanted the rice deregulated while there were over 13,000 comments from people who wanted the rice off the market and regulated. The basis was that the USDA was not concerned about the impact of the rice on people or markets but only on whether the rice would become a weed or hybridize with red rice a common weed in USA. USDA said that it was OK for LLRICE601 to become a weed or spread its herbicide tolerance gene to red rice. Other toxic herbicides can be use to spray LLRICE601 or the weed red rice. What happened was that USDA backed the interests of a German Company who was facing lawsuits from US farmers. They are telling US Farmers you do not matter, what matters if the large companies! Interestingly, USDA paricipated in the studies showing that the herbicide tolerance gene will spread to the weed red rice. USDA spends taxpayers dollars to back a German corporation against US farmers! The web site report was very well done and accurate. However, just last Friday Nov. 24,2006 USDA decided to grant the nonregulated status to LLRICE601. There had been about 300 comments from people from industry and academe who wanted the rice deregulated while there were over 13,000 comments from people who wanted the rice off the market and regulated. The basis was that the USDA was not concerned about the impact of the rice on people or markets but only on whether the rice would become a weed or hybridize with red rice a common weed in USA. USDA said that it was OK for LLRICE601 to become a weed or spread its herbicide tolerance gene to red rice. Other toxic herbicides can be use to spray LLRICE601 or the weed red rice.
What happened was that USDA backed the interests of a German Company who was facing lawsuits from US farmers. They are telling US Farmers you do not matter, what matters if the large companies! Interestingly, USDA paricipated in the studies showing that the herbicide tolerance gene will spread to the weed red rice. USDA spends taxpayers dollars to back a German corporation against US farmers!

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