Hi all, I got the following notice from Jill Davies. She is a local person from Montana who speaks in this area of the country and shares information on a "Greens" list. I sure do hate to see this.
Merla Subject: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE wheat Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:36:00 -0700 From: jill davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "greens list":; Happy New Year to all . . . look what Santa dragged down the chimney . . . Monsanto has submitted its petition for deregulated status on GE wheat. Here is the assigned petition number from the USDA/APHIS website: 02-353-01p Monsanto Reg article: Wheat Received: 12/19/02 Status: Under review for completeness not much info available yet. If you want to see the posting and to follow the progress, go to: http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/ and click on "US" in the line: "Listings of US and International Commercialized Crops"; you will arrive at: "Crops No Longer Regulated by USDA - Approved and Pending" then check the "organism" box and continue to the next step, where you click on "wheat", and choose short record or full record. we will be watching for the FR notice, for which a flood of comments will be generated. be prepared to submit comments and to encourage others to do so also. ~~ Jill Davies - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ How we treat the Land is determined by how we view ourselves. ~~~~~The machine model kills living systems.~~~~~ www.aliantha.com 406/ 847-2228