A musing Beam

The "Monsanto Protection Act" is discussed some, but (for the most part) for the wrong reasons.  Actually, I'm discussing it partially for the "wrong" reasons, too -- I wasn't that interested, but my cousin asked me to. Once I did some research, though, I thought it really was worth slamming. If you haven't heard, the "Monsanto Protection Act" is what many are calling a "rider" placed on a recent appropriations bill.  It says that the Secretary of Agriculture should ignore court rulings in a particular set of cases.  The scenario is when a plant has been preliminarily deemed to be unharmful, and therefore unregulated, by the Secretary, then later a court order tries to stay that determination. Critics are saying that this gives carte blanche to Monsanto, the largest plant genetic modifier, who no longer has to worry with the courts.  That's taking it a bit far -- the Secretary of the Agriculture is already making a determinat