A VICTORY!

Judge Breyer’s final ruling in the alfalfa case holds that the USDA’s approval of Monsanto’s “RoundUp Ready” alfalfa in 2005 was illegal because it should have and did not conduct a complete Environmental Impact Statement.  Further planting isn’t allowed.  GPS coordinates of previous plantings are to be made public.

“Conducting an EIS is plain common sense,” says Neil Carman, a founding member of the Club’s Genetic Engineering Committee.  “This ruling reaffirms what Sierra Club has been saying all along: the government needs to look before it leaps and must comprehensively examine through an EIS how genetically engineered alfalfa could impact the environment before approving its widespread use.”