{"id":806,"date":"2010-06-23T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/scotus-backs-gm-seeds-or-not.html"},"modified":"2010-06-23T08:55:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:55:58","slug":"scotus-backs-gm-seeds-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/scotus-backs-gm-seeds-or-not.html","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS backs GM seeds &#8212; or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t closely follow the controversies over genetically modified seeds, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/us_and_canada\/10371831.stm\">the Supreme Court ruling this week saying it was legal for Monsanto to go ahead with production of genetically modified seeds without an environmental impact study <\/a>strikes me as unwise. Then again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/food\/archive\/2010\/06\/supreme-court-on-modified-foods-who-won\/58526\/\">Barry Estabrook says that <\/a>Monsanto&#8217;s opponents are pretty happy with it &#8230; and so is Monsanto. What&#8217;s the story here? Somebody enlighten me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t closely follow the controversies over genetically modified seeds, but the Supreme Court ruling this week saying it was legal for Monsanto to go ahead with production of genetically modified seeds without an environmental impact study strikes me as unwise. Then again, Barry Estabrook says that Monsanto&#8217;s opponents are pretty happy with it &#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SCOTUS backs GM seeds - or not? - Rod Dreher<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/scotus-backs-gm-seeds-or-not.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SCOTUS backs GM seeds - or not? - Rod Dreher\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t closely follow the controversies over genetically modified seeds, but the Supreme Court ruling this week saying it was legal for Monsanto to go ahead with production of genetically modified seeds without an environmental impact study strikes me as unwise. 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