The annual sugar beet harvest is in full swing. Half of the sugar produced in the U.S. comes from beets, and about a quarter of the nation's beets are grown in the West. A decade ago, Monsanto Company developed a sugar beet that was genetically engineered to survive its Roundup weed killer. But, thanks to public outrage over the prospect of genetically modified candy bars, the GMO beets were put on hold, and the nation's M&Ms and Kit Kats remained GMO-free. Today, however, Americans consume GMO sweets all the time. Some 95 percent of U.S. sugar beets are Roundup Ready, developed and planted largely under the public radar since the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly "deregulated" the crop in 2005. On Sept. 21, though, a U.S. district judge in California hobbled the Roundup Ready revolution when he ruled that the Department of Agriculture broke federal law by approving those