The USDA will soon decide how to regulate Roundup Ready alfalfa, engineered by Monsanto to resist a chemical used to kill weeds.

美国农业部很快将做出决定，规范草甘磷苜蓿（Roundup Ready alfalfa）的种植。这种苜蓿是孟山都公司通过基因改造而研发出来的新品种，具有抗除草剂的能力。

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The first such crop, Roundup Ready alfalfa, is also illegal to plant, based on the vacating of its deregulation in 2007 pending preparation of an EIS.

第一种这样的作为，即孟山都公司的抗“终结者”除草剂苜蓿（Roundup Ready alfalfa），进行种植也非法，同样取消了2007年等待准备的“环境影响报告”（EIS）期间对它就进行的非正常批准。

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After an exhaustive review, the USDA gave Roundup Ready Alfalfa the green light in 2005.

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Geertson Seed Farms, a federal court agreed with CFS, prohibiting Monsanto from selling Roundup Ready Alfalfa pending yet another assessment.

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The genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beet seeds currently being withheld from growers are both "Roundup ready, " which means that the seeds have been genetically engineered to produce crops that can withstand the application of Roundup herbicide.

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