{"id":188116,"date":"2010-12-08T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/08\/federal-judge-judge-spanks-ag-department-and-monsanto\/"},"modified":"2010-12-08T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T01:58:00","slug":"federal-judge-judge-spanks-ag-department-and-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/08\/federal-judge-judge-spanks-ag-department-and-monsanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Judge Spanks Ag Department and Monsanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, in response to the suit by environmentalists, issued a ruling that no new genetically modified &#8220;roundup ready&#8221; sugar beets be planted until a full environmental impact statement has been filed. <\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Agriculture, never a big one for following the law, then issued permits to plant them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this the judge has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicvalley.com\/business\/local\/article_e46814f9-3cbf-5c7a-96d3-c0338b644349.html\">the crops must be destroyed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when you metaphorically call the judge a cock sucker.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicvalley.com\/news\/local\/article_a01e4f5a-02d1-11e0-bbde-001cc4c03286.html\">stayed the ruling pending a review<\/a>, but my guess is that they will be inclined to go along with the judge&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Judges hate it when you ignore their orders.&nbsp; They think that it&#8217;s illegal or something.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, it <b>is<\/b> illegal or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, in response to the suit by environmentalists, issued a ruling that no new genetically modified &#8220;roundup ready&#8221; sugar beets be planted until a full environmental impact statement has been filed. The US Department of Agriculture, never a big one for following the law, then issued permits to plant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,1010,1079,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-bureaucracy","category-environment","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}