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... a federal judge last month banned the planting of genetically modified sugar beets engineered by monsanto co ... district judge jeffrey white ruled in 2009 that usda approved monsanto's sugar beets without adequate environmental study ... usda said on wednesday the court's ruling does not restrict it from issuing permits for planting of young sugar beet plants, or stecklings ... the department said it already has received applications and is issuing permits to sugar beet seed producers for these plantings ... the department also is evaluating a request for a partial deregulation of roundup ready sugar beets ... sugar beets account for over half the u ... sugar supply ... but conventional sugar beet seeds remain widely available and environmentalists filing suit said the judge's decision should not significantly affect sugar production ... roundup also is manufactured by monsanto and was sold to farmers together with the genetically altered sugar beet seeds
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... sugar edged higher but dealers said benchmark october raw sugar futures faced strong overhead resistance ... raw sugar futures extended gains, having rallied late on friday after fund buying triggered buy-stops above 19 cents and 19 ... a federal judge on friday banned the planting of genetically modified sugar beets engineered by monsanto co in a ruling that marks a major setback for the biotech giant ... ice october raw sugar traded up 0 ... london october white sugar traded up $9
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... more than 70 companies have signed a pledge promising to avoid using sugar from genetically modified sugar beets "wherever possible ... " genetically modified sugar beets, engineered by the monsanto corporation to be resistant to its herbicide roundup, were first harvested in fall 2008 ... by now, sugar from those beets has likely entered the food stream ... critics of genetic engineering have raised concerns that the modified beets could produce food allergies, threaten wildlife and spread herbicide resistance or other modified traits to closely related species, including chard or table beets ... " more than 73 food producers and retailers have agreed to "seek to avoid wherever possible using [genetically modified] beet sugar in our products ... " the signatories have also urged the sugar industry to avoid using the genetically modified beets altogether ... tom stearns of high mowing organic seeds, another sponsor, noted that genetically modified crops are also a risky investment, as products containing them may not be allowed in certain countries
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... the organic consumers association (oca) has called for a boycott of the kellogg company, also known as kellogg's, after the company refused to sign a pledge refusing to use genetically modified sugar in its cereal products ... sugar from genetically modified sugar beets hit the u ... food stream since the widespread introduction of modified corn and soy in the 1990s ... the sugar has been modified by the monsanto corporation to be resistant to the company's signature herbicide , roundup ... "these ge sugar beets do not provide any environmental, nutritional or food quality benefits whatsoever," the oca said ... the bottom line is that there are numerous options to ge sugar beets ... " more than 73 food producers and retailers have signed a pledge not to use genetically modified sugar in their products ... while the company will make sure not to use modified sugar in any of its european products -- the european union has not approved sugar from the beets for human consumption -- kellogg's insists that u ... the oca said that it decided to launch a kellogg's boycott only after the company refused to heed more than 15,000 letters asking the company not to use the modified beet sugar ... in addition, the company clearly has the logistical ability to avoid genetically modified sugar, since it is already doing so for its european products
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... genetically modified (gm) sugar would not be commercially produced for at least another ten years because of the complexity of the cane, a sugar biotechnologist told an international sugar conference ... however, professor frikkie botha from south africa's university of stellenbosch said that once one country began producing gm sugar, all other producers would follow ... botha, consumers would accept gm sugar because it would be a refined product ... "all of this work around the world (to increase sugar content in cane and on disease and pest resistance) is at the early experimental stage," botha told the international society of sugar cane technologists congress in brisbane ... botha said scientific work in brazil, australia, the united states and south africa were all experiencing similar problems with the complex sugar cane plant ... but gm sugar would eventually be accepted by consumers ... "at the moment there is some public uproar (over gm foods) but sugar is a refined product so there will be less resistance to genetically modified sugar, eventually," he said
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