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In fact, this has happened twice in recent years, with alfalfa and sugar beets.
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Sugar beets can be grown anywhere else in the US with ample soil and moisture including Alaska.
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The almost identical disaster scenario has played out over sugar beets. 95% of which is from GE seeds.
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The most common Genetically Engineered crops are Corn, Soy, Canola, Sugar Beets, Cotton, Hawaiian Papaya, Alfalfa, and Squash (zucchini and yellow).
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They have asked the federal courts to halt the planting of herbicide-resistant alfalfa and sugar beets, because of alleged procedural--but wholly inconsequential--deficiencies in the USDA evaluations of the products.
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In the U.K., the partnership will produce the new fuel by extracting fermentable sugar from sugar beets and converting that into a fuel, similar to the way ethanol is produced.
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Several years ago a coalition of environmental groups joined with a handful of organic farmers to sue in federal court to halt the planting of genetically engineered sugar beets modified for resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (better known by its trade name, Roundup).
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Including sugar beets, and peanuts.
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Sugar cane and beets are 6-8 times as productive for ethanol as corn.
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