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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Dolly has triggered the shutdown of about 5 percent of crude oil and natural gas production from the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Minerals Management Service said Tuesday. As of 11:30 am CST (12:30 p.m. EDT), energy companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico shut some 60,621 barrels of daily crude production and 395 million cubic feet of daily natural gas production, the MMS said.

“What Monsanto is doing across the country is often, and according to farmers, trespassing even, on their land, examining their crops and trying to find some of their patented crops,” said Andrew Kimbrell, with the Center For Food Safety. “And if they do, they sue those farmers for their entire crop.” In fact, in Feb. 2005 the Runyons received a letter from Monsanto, citing “an agreement” with the Indiana Department of Agriculture giving it the right to come on their land and test for seed contamination. Only one problem: The Indiana Department of Agriculture didn’t exist until two months after that letter was sent. Read more