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[SANET-MG] USDA declares GM polluted papaya is organic?



I have enclosed a quote  from the article below.  The article was about
GM pollution of organic and conventional papaya in Hawaii The university
distributed  GM polluted seeds  and the GM crops pollinated any organic
or  conventional crop. The letter claims that  USDA declared GM
polluted  papaya to be organic because only the seeds of the papaya were
polluted (papaya seeds are well recognized to be edible portions of the
fruit) provided that the grower proved steps had been taken to avoid the
pollution of the crop!
No effort seems to be made to compensate growers for pollution damage to
their crops!
I request comment from others who know USDA organic ! Can USDA organic
bureaucrats allow  such perverted  designations of organic.?  Are the
USDA organic bureaucrats  puppets of  corporate biotechnology?  Are the
organic bureaucrats simply showing that  they want the serfs who till
the organic fields to accept that GM crops are organic?
Can US  organic producers export their crops after the damage done by
USDA bureaucrats?
How UH Helped Save Hawaii's Papayas

By Andrew Hashimoto, Dean of CTAHR

>From the Honolulu Advertiser, Sunday October 17th

"It's important to note, however, that papaya farmers
will not lose their organic certification because
their non-GM trees have been cross-pollinated by GM
pollen, producing papayas that have no GM flesh but do
contain some GM seeds.

Under USDA regulations, fruit from non-GM papaya that
has been cross-pollinated by GM pollen can be sold as
organic if the grower can document that, except for
the cross-pollination, the crop was grown according to
organic standards and that every effort was made to
avoid cross-pollination."

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