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Wisconsin-based salmon and leafy greens producer Superior Fresh has agreed to buy AquaBounty’s land-based salmon farm in Albany, Indiana, for $9.5 million! 🎊 This is a major victory, as this facility will now be sold to be used for non-GE purposes! 🙌 🐟 Hopefully another step toward ultimate victory in the GE Salmon fight (going on 20+ years now). ✊ ‘Superior Fresh, situated near Northfield, around 100 miles east of Minnesota, uses an aquaponics system that utilises nutrients from its land-based salmon farm as fertiliser for salad greens grown with their roots in water. The process cleanses the water which can then be returned to the fish tanks. Unlike AquaBounty, the company doesn’t see the advantage of genetic engineering, even in plants, and states on its website that its fish east a non-GMO, organic diet. It says its fish contain twice the omega-3 content of other salmon, and “ are not fed like most farmed fish, which are too often fed with formaldehyde, pesticides, antibiotics, and GMOs”. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ezPPPVC4

📢 The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the decades-old “Chevron deference” legal doctrine that has given agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a whole lot of leeway to interpret ambiguous laws when writing regulations. Swipe 👈 through for a quick explainer from Clark Mindock of Landmark to help us understand what the doctrine is, its history and some quick takeaways.‘ The court’s 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, hands a major victory to conservatives who have long been interested in reigning in the power of the so-called administrative state. And it shifts the balance of power between executive agencies and the courts, handing the latter a greater opportunity to wade into policy. The landmark decision, issued along ideological lines, threatened regulations made by virtually every federal agency including the EPA, the Interior Department and others to address everything from power plant pollution to logging projects in federal forests.’ Chevron has been used to defend rules on all sorts of issues from tax policy to health care, as well. https://lnkd.in/eYs27Vrg

🌿 👐 Support Organic through the Farm Bill 📢 Right now we have the single greatest opportunity to strengthen and support the organic sector for years to come. Congress is crafting the next Farm Bill, which sets our nation’s food and farm policies for the next five years!The US Farm Bill is not just about farming – it's about our entire food system, from seed to fork. It determines what ends up on our supermarket shelves and eventually, on our plates. This bill has enormous potential to shape a healthier, more climate-friendly food future for the next 5 years with organic at the front and center. 🍎 🤝 @centerforfoodsafety & @naturespathorganic have proudly joined forces throughout 2024 to make sure Congress passes a bill that elevates organic agriculture as the primary solution to address our food systems biggest pitfalls.But to make it happen, it will take all of us speaking out, demanding our elected officials prioritize organic. ✍ Take action, urge your Congressional representative to support a Farm Bill that puts organic first! Join the movement via link in bio, or visit here:  https://lnkd.in/ewvBZ2pA  🌎

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