This is a classic struggle between maintaining a hard-line stance (no deregulation of Genetically Engineered [GE] crops, which the USDA refuses to consider) or modifying a position to the lesser-evil (conditional deregulation, which Whole Foods et. al. have decided to support). This seed could mean the contamination of organic and pure-crops. Seriously disconcerting and worth reading up about.
Key excerpt: “this means that WFM and their colleagues are willing to go along with the massive planting of a chemical and energy-intensive GE perennial crop, alfalfa; guaranteed to spread its mutant genes and seeds across the nation; guaranteed to contaminate the alfalfa fed to organic animals; guaranteed to lead to massive poisoning of farm workers and destruction of the essential soil food web by the toxic herbicide, Roundup; and guaranteed to produce Roundup-resistant superweeds that will require even more deadly herbicides such as 2,4 D to be sprayed on millions of acres of alfalfa across the U.S.”
