Did you know?
- 93% of the alfalfa planted by U.S. farmers (currently non-GMO) is grown without the use of any herbicides at all.
- 23 million pounds of toxic herbicides will be sprayed in communities across the country, for the first time ever, and annually thereafter, if USDA allows open and widespread planting of GE alfalfa.
- 90% of all GE alfalfa seeds are owned by the world’s largest biotech and pesticide company, Monsanto – the original manufacturer of Agent Orange (DDT) and PCBs.
- 90% of all GE crops are designed to withstand the direct spraying of Monsanto’s toxic weed killer, Roundup, and not to improve nutrition or taste or to reduce pesticide use.
- Bees can carry GE alfalfa pollen 5 miles or more, contaminating non-GE hay fields along the way, including organic hay which is the main feed for organic dairy cows.
- Approval of GE alfalfa was overturned in federal court because USDA failed to analyze GE contamination risks to conventional and organic alfalfa, the effects of weed resistance and increased herbicide use, and the economic impacts of GE alfalfa on all farmers, as required by law.
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