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To: lurqer who wrote (38850)	3/5/2004 12:07:12 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Considering his level of gall, no surprise. Ashcroft hospitalized with gallstone complications U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is in the intensive care unit of a Washington hospital after being admitted Thursday night for gallstone pancreatitis, the Justice Department said Friday. from cnn.com lurqer

To: lurqer who wrote (38850)	3/5/2004 1:05:20 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Yeah, I found this article this morning. I've always thought that the bill we passed was more symbolic than anything, since I don't anticipate GM grapes, pears, or redwoods for a while, given that they are very time intensive, although I've seen grapes replaced fairly frequently as rootstocks are developed. The biggest threats here would seem to be salmon, abs, sea urchins (if the aquaculture industry moves in), and, oddly enuf, the leading crop in the county. I've heard rumors that marijuana is being experiment with by enterprising young grad students, and I'm told that all the clones are polyploid, mutated by whatever. Wonder if that is covered, jaja. gefreevt.org "Vermonters call a time out on genetically engineered crops!" 03/03/04 \| 12:00pm VT Farmer Protection GMO Liability Passes Download this Ad NATIONAL UPDATE: MENDOCINO COUNTY, CA PASSES "MEASURE H" and BANS BIOTECH CROPS!! Contact: Amy Shollenberger, Rural Vermont 802.793.1114 Doyle Canning, GE Free VT 802.279.0985 On the heals of farmers’ anti-biotech blitz on Statehouse, Vermont Senate Judiciary Passes Farmer Protection Act. House Agriculture Committee sells out Vermont Farmers To biotech industry and insider politics. Campaigners vow to organize at Town Meeting Tuesday, and continue the fight for a Time Out on Genetically Engineered Crops. Take Action Now. Click here Montpelier, VT—After yesterday’s flood of Vermont’s capitol during testimony by Monsanto representatives, the Senate Judiciary committee voted 6-0-0 for the Farmer Protection Act , an Act Relating to Genetic Engineering. GE Free Vermont welcomes this as an important first step towards a Time Out on GMOs in Vermont. The House Agriculture committee fell apart this afternoon after Chair Ruth Towne (R-Berlin) walked out of committee and refused to convene when the committee brought up the subject of the Farmer’s Right-to-Know Act. The meeting erupted into heated discussion about “the deal” on the Farmer’s Right-to-Know on GE seeds, and dissolved into a chaotic episode when Vice Chair Bobby Starr (D, Orleans-Franklin-1) suggested the committee “pack it all on one boat and ship it,” meaning putting Large Farms, the Right to Farm, and Right-to-Know acts into one bill. Representative Starr spoke to a rally of 250 Vermonters on the statehouse steps yesterday, claming to support legislation on genetically engineered crops, but today towed an industry line and refused to vote the bill out of committee as a stand alone bill to support Vermont’s family farmers. Take Action Now. Click here “The Senate is committed to Vermont farmers and is moving towards the Time Out on GMOs. The important first step of the Farmer Protection Act, with an essential amendment to define genetically engineered seeds and protect farmers from GMOs drift liability lawsuits, will hold companies like Monsanto accountable,” said Amy Shollenberger, policy director at Rural Vermont. “But the House Agriculture committee, who took testimony from Monsanto for three hours yesterday with 250 Vermonters looking on, has utterly failed in their mission to represent our state’s farmers. The leadership has sold out farmers and done deal making with big business. The conduct of the committee today was unconscionable, and at times ridiculous. The people of Vermont have spoken, and our Representatives are not listening. They are laughing, walking out of committee, and selling out small farmers.” Take Action Now. Click here “The amendment on the Senate’s Farmer Protection Act is key. It will hold the corporations who develop this risky technology liable for the damages of GMO drift and crop contamination,” said Doyle Canning, a GE Free VT Campaigner from Burlington. “But farmers and GE Free supporters across Vermont are organizing at the grassroots level for a Time Out on GMOs. We’re going to Town Meeting Tuesday to talk with our neighbors about GMOs. 70 towns in Vermont have already called on lawmakers to act. We flooded the statehouse yesterday. And we’ll be back.” The GE Free Vermont Campaign on Genetic Engineering is a statewide coalition of public interest groups, businesses, concerned citizens and farmers, who are organizing to oppose genetic engineering at the local, state and national level, and calling for a “Time Out” on GMOs. For more information: www.gefreevt.org 802.272.9536