US court dumps on alfalfa A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has once again judged against GM alfalfa, leaving in place an injunction preventing Monsanto from selling GM alfalfa seed. Nothing is new. The court still thinks a farm field should, under the law, be treated the same as an environment in the wilderness. It still ignores the fact that the US has over 300 varieties of alfalfa seed on the market, which could, to coin a phrase, "pollute", or "contaminate" each other. Which, in the eyes of the court, means "contaminating the environment". Since nothing is new here, GMObelus is merely pointing to its first article on this courtroom folderol. More†

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Futuristic floral artists Are they 'open source' advocates, biopirates, or artists? "If more and more of the flowers we buy at florist are cloned and if food is less and less spottable as genetically manipulated, we are facing times when the intervention with the dna of different living organisms will be considered as pop culture", say the folks at Neural, about the Common Flowers project. Claiming to be artists, Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel of Common Flowers use tissue culture to bring cut flowers "back to life again, planting them into the environment, and then making them a Common." We're talking about the GM 'Moondust' blue carnation. More†