GE Alfalfa

The Canadian Government has approved Monsanto’s herbicide resistant (Roundup Ready) alfalfa and a small amount is now being grown in Eastern Canada. Alfalfa is at high risk of GE contamination and the introduction of GE alfalfa is of great concern to both conventional and organic farmers. Click here for information, updates and action .

Was Monsanto waiting for the rules to change? In 2007, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency changed the variety registration process and called this “seed modernization”. CBAN produced a guide to these consultations and objected to the changes because of our analysis that they would allow genetically engineered crop varieties to be approved quickly, without the safeguards for farmers established through the variety registration process.

Click here to read the position paper on GE Alfalfa of CBAN Member the Organic Agriculture Protection Fund (OAPF) of SaskOrganics.