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15-04-2008 10:38
 
For any of you with any doubts about the safety of gmo crops, you may want to attend this meeting or pass the info on to family or friends in the business: 
 
USA: Public meeting to focus on possible GM crop contamination 
 
Ag Weekly, 13 April 2008.  
 
TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- Idaho Rural Council is holding two public meetings about the potential economic harm to producers and consumers from genetically modified alfalfa, wheat, and other crops.  
 
The presentations, titled Genetically Modified Crops: What's the Problem?, feature a rice grower harmed by contamination from genetically modified rice and alfalfa and hay growers concerned about the future of organic and conventional agriculture.  
 
The meetings will be held on Wednesday, April 23, in Twin Falls and Boise. The first meeting will start at 10:30 a.m. at Pandoraís Restaurant, 516 Hansen Street, which is behind the Depot Grill in historic downtown Twin Falls.  
 
The second meeting will begin at 6 p.m., at the Boise Senior Activities Center, 690 Robbins Road, in Boise.  
 
Confirmed speakers are:  
 
Greg Yielding, executive director, Arkansas Rice Growers Association, will talk about the billion-dollar cost to U.S. rice growers from contamination by an unapproved, experimental genetically modified rice variety.  
 
Phil Geertson, alfalfa seed producer from Greenleaf, Idaho, is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit that stopped the sale and planting of genetically modified alfalfa until the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts an Environmental Impact Statement.  
 
Kevin Golden is an attorney with the Center for Food Safety, which represented Geertson, the Western Organization of Resource Councils, and others in the alfalfa lawsuit.  
 
A representative of Eckenberry Farms, the largest exporter of alfalfa hay in the country, has been invited to speak.  
 
The public meetings are sponsored by IRC, Oregon Rural Action, Western Organization of Resource Councils, and the Center for Food Safety.  
 
For more information, call IRC, 326-3686.
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