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Actually, it was not snuck in. That's just more activist lies, per their SOP. The correctly named Farmer Assurance Provision was part of the draft Farm Bill all the way back at the beginning in June 2012, and it was clearly no secret, because the American Soybean Association publicly expressed support for the measure in 2012.
And here's all it does... it protects a farmer who plants seeds that are approved and fully permitted from having to later rip up his growing crop and destroy it purely due to procedural issues that are raised as challenges. Activists had been successful in getting courts to overrule legal permissions for crops to be grown based merely on procedural, rather than scientific grounds. Then, without proving any danger at all, they got court restraining orders issued to destroy the crops while the case was being adjudicated. And because of those rulings, farmers lost their investment in that specific crop, even if the case was later won by their side, or even if the case was later dropped by their opposition. That's not the way most restraining orders work, which merely delay something until a matter is decided, because you can't delay plants that are already growing.
It was an abuse of the court system to misuse restraining orders in this way, and was financially ruinous to farmers who were early adopters of new plant technology, and this measure was simply designed to eliminate that possibility. Opponents can go to court to fight the legal permissions to grow transgenetic foods in the first place, or they can ask for harvested food to be sequestered after the fact and not sold, but they can no longer force a farmer to rip up his crop if he planted legally in the first place.
seems pretty simple. it's disturbing how wildly this legislation was twisted by some to mean something completely different. for example:
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Originally Posted by liars at Center for Food Safety
the Monsanto-driven rider remains simply a biotech industry ploy to continue to plant GE crops even when a court of law has found they were approved illegally.
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