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Breakout Sessions
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Food and Agriculture
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Wednesday May 5, 2010
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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McCormick Place, Chicago
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N426C
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The benefits of biotech crops for sustainable supplies of food, feed, fuel and fiber must hurdle standard setting and laws that deny the sustainability of biotech crops. While legal WTO victories open doors to overseas markets, the Biosafety Protocol and sustainability standards may close others. Biotech crops will play a crucial role in the coming carbon-water constrained “bioeconomy”—e.g., drought-resistance, increased yield and bio-sequestration of climate gasses. Innovators need to know the role of mega-standards (the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, ANSI SCS-001 Sustainable Agriculture), the National Environmental Policy Act, and other legal barriers).
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1. Inform companies and customers for biotech crops of status of anti-biotech sustainability standards.
2. Inform companies and customers of the threat posed by injunctions requiring environmental impact statements.
3. Inform companies and customers about potential overseas approval, labeling and traceability for biotech crops under the Biosafety Protocol.
Thomas Redick, Esq - Chair
Attorney
Global Environmental Ethics Counsel
Nancy Bryson, Esq
PARTNER
Holland & Hart LLP
Ronald G. Moore, BA
Board Member, American Soybean Association
Moore Family Farms
Matt Rudolf
RSB
Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels