Oregon County Set to Destroy Monsanto’s GMO Crops
Following on a ban instituted in 2014
Monsanto has been warned, and Syngenta already moved their operations
outside the county. Notice was given by Josephine County, Oregon that
citizens are very serious about the GMO ban (Measure 17-58) that was passed last year. The cultivation of GMO crops will not be tolerated.
Biotech companies have until September 4th, just a few short weeks away, to either harvest their crops or destroy them, or they face monetary penalties.
The very first line of the ordinance to ban GMOs in Josephine County states its purpose:
“[to] maintain and protect seed sovereignty and local
control, free from outside corporate interests and unnecessary and
overreaching preemption by the state and federal governments, of this
County’s agriculture, environment, public health, economy and private
property rights as they pertain to genetic contamination from
genetically engineered plants;”
