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  A U.S. court has banned any further planting of genetically modified sugar beets until the completion of proper safety studies. This has landed the corporate houses and farmers in an utterly troublesome situation. The problem is so grave that the biotech giant Monsanto has already submitted a petition to the United States Department of Agriculture requesting to allow a small and closely monitored planting of the GM sugar beet in order to avoid devastation of the local sugar market. Natural News reports that not only Monsanto but a few other sugar producing organizations have made the same request to the USDA. http://www.naturalnews.com/030377_Monsanto_GMO_sugar_beets.html The USDA, understanding the gravity of the situation, has published a 365-page report over the necessity of the farmers to be able to plant the RoundUp Ready sugar beets in a controlled way. The main reason behind the banning of the GM sugar beets was the contamination of other crops. The court has

     Have you heard of GMO superbugs? GMO infections? Genetically modified cancer cells? Have you heard of drug resistant bacteria? It may be invisible to the naked eye, but now dogs are proving they can sniff out the sickness!! That's right, follow this: The olfactory sense of dogs is a thousand times stronger than that of human beings. This is why dogs are able to pick up the scents that the human nose might not be able to detect. Natural News reports that this unique strength of dogs can now be used to pinpoint the origin of infections in hospitals. It may sound bizarre but it is true that dogs can sniff out Clostridium difficile an antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria which is the causative agent of hospital infections.   According to a new study that is shortly going to be published in the British Medical Journal , dogs are capable of sniffing out C-diff from stool samples and the also from the air around patients in hospitals. The success rate of t