Josephine County voted on a genetically modified food ban that was to go into effect on September 4th, but of course rejecting GMOs can never happen without a fight. One day before the ban went live, GM sugar beet farmers, with the backing of agrichemical corporations, sued in order to halt the ban. This is a similar tactic that was used in Maui County and Kauai County, who passed similar bans via a democratic process. When will the courts uphold justice?
The lawsuit bans county officials from enforcing the GM crop ban ordinance, and cannot be upheld until the lawsuit makes it through court. The plaintiffs of the lawsuit maintain that the county ban is superceded by a state law which allows the GM sugar beet farmers to plant their crops.
John DiLorenzo, the sugar beet farmers’ attorney stated:
“The Josephine County ballot measure is exactly the kind of patchwork policy the legislature intended to prohibit when it enacted SB 863. Lawmakers established that such laws should be made at the state level to avoid the chaos and confusion created when farmers face conflicting restrictions on agricultural practices imposed by local governments that lack expertise in farm practice regulation.”
That may be true, but the local governments were enacting a bill that was overwhelmingly supported by Oregonians that don’t want to eat GM food.
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Robert A. White, Jr., and his wife Shelly, grew genetically engineered sugar beets on their farm and adjacent leased land.
The Whites, and other Josephine County farm families that grow crops subject to the ban, “face a real and immediate threat and irreparable injury,” according to the complaint filed this afternoon in Josephine County circuit court.
Why, aren’t there other non GMO seeds available?
Why don’t they just growNON GMO CROPS? End Monsanto s control over our food chain… Life is better when your not eating poison.
People should have no fear that this illegal law will get struck down just like the one in Maui.
Please explain, how is this law illegal?
As it stands,county,state & federal law are not keeping up with the
contagiouse nature of genetic,& more importantly,chemical overindulgence.States can nullify federal law when those laws threaten human life.You should also be nullified-SHILLIES LITTLE BOY.There are vaccines mandated for peaple like you haha :(Please explain why you understand yet you dont.Ask a beekeeper why he doesnt grow glypho-crops?
It is not illegal. Take what mr. roberts says with a pinch of non-GMO salt!
Not allowing people to plant what they want on their own land?
Plant in the name of ruining the environment and increasing poverty through manipulation and increasing a monopoly?
You call that legal?
Is it for you to decide? Who made you God? Not only are you wrong, but it just isn’t up to you.
So by your mindset, if someone wanted to dump nuclear waste on their property, it would be ok, because it’s their property?
The law is simple, who is the victim? This is a question regarding the rules of law, maybe you could enlighten us.
Not those suing, because their are other alternatives, plant non-GMO.
Not Monsanto, because they continue to show profit every year.
Maybe the environment and those inadvertently exposed to these criminals are the victims?
The land is being polluted and the GMO’s are posing potential risks to their land and crops.
Your God thing was really neet, since genetic manipulation would be more like playing God than making a post on the internet.
Your example is in error because nuclear waste would be an illegal substance for someone to have in their possession. Gmos crops are a perfectly legal substance to own, grow, and consume.
The point was to demonstrate the fallacy of your statement.
Hmm, my smoke detector says radiation hazard? Though I have no way of knowing if it is radioactive waste or a radioactive material, but it will eventually be waste. So I’m in possession of radioactive waste.
Not the point though, because you used a blanket statement, people can do what ever they want on their land.
And the question I pressed upon you was, the precedence of law regarding a victim.
Who is the victim?
People should be able to do any legal activity on their land, excuse me for not spelling out the obvious for you.
And if their decisions effect their neighbors rights or quality of life?
Though it is presumed they can do what ever they want, under the law there is a victim due to irresponsible actions.
What irresponsible actions would that be? What quality of life would be affected?
Farmers and seed companies who are responsible for genetically contaminating
neighboring fields might be liable for a neighbor’s damages based on tort claims
of trespass to land, nuisance, negligence, or strict liability.
I hope you understand this, because your also liable.
LOL, I knew with enough bait you would fall right into this pitfall. What you claim is simply defined as “An act of God”. There will be no liability for cross contamination. Look at it this way, I take my yard then the wind blows your leaves I of my yard. You are not responsible for such a silly thing.
That is an opinion, not a legal precedent in regards to GMO.
You might actually try researching, it’s very well documented.
I do research, though some of it might be wrong.
I’m not always right like you are.
That is why you should do the research first and then check it again before you open your mouth (or use your keyboard in this case). Go ahead and prove me wrong and list the court cases where a gmo farmer has been held liable in this country.
Not my problem, I don’t sell seeds.
Look for the common cause.
It’s very obvious.
You are the one whining about it. Not my problem, because there is no liability for an act of God.
*Act of Monsanto
Your totally discredited now Podunk, move along now.
Another loser tactic from our ultimate loser!
Du.
Du hast.
Du hast Mich.
Du Hast Mich Roberts.
After you clean the yard, dont forget to do the dishes and take out the trash. Im taking your mom to a nice seafood dinner tonight, and I may not call her again.
So if you have a rotten diseased tree in your yard and a wind storm dropped it on the neighbors house, that’s, under your law, an act of your god? Negligence is what that’s called under the law.
You bear no responsibility for the diseased tree?
Wrong Podunk.
If you know the risks of GMO and don’t inform your supposed customer’s of the risks and provide them the applicable resources to reduce their potential risks, that’s an act of your god?
You as well as the customers are liable for the damage by not following the recommended practices as provided by the GMO seed corporations, creating buffer zones. That is not an act of your god, that’s negligence.
That’s why the GMO corporations put that in there, to absolve themselves of the liability.
Don’t act like you know the law, especially with your stupid Podunk act of god theories.
You have to be faking this. No one could be that stupid. Where do you come up with these fantasies? Your “buffer zones” are just another made up lie you came up with. They don’t exist are certainly not required by the tech agreements or the law. If you really wanted to try and prove something you would have listed court cases to prove your point. But it is kinda hard since they don’t exist isn’t it.
I won’t even give you a nice try on your tree example, because you purposely said a diseased tree, not a healthy tree. If a healthy tree is taken down in a storm it is an act of God with no responsibility. If a diseased tree goes down in a storm, most likely it will be ruled the same, unless it can be proven the owner knew about it.
Remember that time you peed the bed. OMG that was so funny.
Backed by 40 whole years of research!!
I love that song, domo arigato mr roboto. We still going to karaoke tonight?
Hey, I wanna plant some stuff that will give your kids chronic illnesses, and market it with no labeling. You cool with that?
You see there is the problem. Everyone authority on earth says you are wrong. The billions of animals and people that have eaten gmos for twenty years are proof of that as well.
They can grow other crops. It’s just that no one wants what they’re growing.
strange how it keeps disappearing if no one wants it.
We live in hope of seeing you eat your GMO-tainted words to a gut-wrenching gag.
And that is sad that you hope gmos cause harm. I pity you and all of us if that is what we have become. Peace.
I don’t hope. It is already proven beyond doubt they cause harm and no amount of disingenuous palaver will alter the fact. I do not wish you any harm personally. Far from it. The inherent harm in GMO’s and the attendant glyphosate is the whole point of my anger, as anger it is. That GMOs would harm an innocent child, not to mention that millions are exposed to it, riles me and that a person like you would lower yourself to promote them enrages me. Peace!
Oh sure your not hateful and vengeful, just stupid. I get it. Thanks.
Hey Roberta “Extra Cheese on the Taco” Roberts, do you still need that case of vagisil you wanted me to get from Costco for you?
“And that is sad that you hope gmos cause harm. I pity you and all of us if that is what we have become. Peace.”
– Joseph Stalin-Roberts, 2015
There you go Robo Snookems. Use fear and propaganda to spread the good word of GMO’s. Because that is how business is done, and its good for the people too.
There e are non gmo crops to grow witch do NOT pose DANGER to life forms.. Gmos are poison, roundup is poison & it should NOT BE ALLOWD HERE. Or any place on earthearth. WHEN WILL WE STOP the force feeding of poisons? THERE IS A BETTER WAY.. There power is destroying our food chain on so many levels. Wake up growers…
rule of law doesnt work $+judge+lawmakers+$=666+911/secrets grow in the dark &die in the light.patenting any form of life=death to us.we let this crap go too far already.The majority must rule,not the greedy.what r the real stats?not 99%vs 1.More like 20%vs80.Meaning,most peaple at some point in their lives are aholes.I was 1,&u were 2!we had better grow up fast now,so our race survives.We can help ourselves the most,by helping one another.
Holy moly, from their attorneys to the TPP, omg what a mess. The deck is dangerously stacked.
This is a very good example that would be a telling indicator.
Plan, prepare and survive.
You all had better become self reliant fast, that TPP is serious.
Their attorney will waste so much tax payers money that the state will have no choice, just like they did in Hawaii.
This is so messed up!!
You trolls and troll biters can go back and forth all you want. Any company that plays that dirty, that uses its money to push legislation barring people from even trying to sue them has already lost my respect. They don’t play nice or fair, therefore anything they say in their own defense is untrustworthy. Bullies suck.
No pennies from me or mine.