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2008-09-11 | permalink
U.S. Riceland co-op tensions rise over rice-contamination suit
Disillusionment among members of Arkansas’ largest farmer-owned cooperative has begun bubbling to the surface in the wake of an ongoing lawsuit involving the 2006 contamination of U. S. long-grain rice supplies by unapproved, genetically engineered rice. Some members of Stuttgartbased Riceland Foods Inc. believe the co-op’s managers are keeping secrets from them, said John Alter of DeWitt, whose family has been a Riceland member for three generations.
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2008-09-11 | permalink
U.S. Riceland co-op tensions rise over rice-contamination suit
Disillusionment among members of Arkansas’ largest farmer-owned cooperative has begun bubbling to the surface in the wake of an ongoing lawsuit involving the 2006 contamination of U. S. long-grain rice supplies by unapproved, genetically engineered rice. Some members of Stuttgartbased Riceland Foods Inc. believe the co-op’s managers are keeping secrets from them, said John Alter of DeWitt, whose family has been a Riceland member for three generations.
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