Here is yet another Mahyco-Monsanto tale, one of defiance and breaking the law even as the scientific community looks on. [...] The Mahyco seed company had approached the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee in its meeting on January 12, 2011 for permission to produce seed of genetically engineered cotton containing a herbicide tolerant gene. This non-Bt cotton was not proposed to be released as a herbicide tolerant crop but to be used as the refuge crop for when BG II RR Flex cotton is finally approved for cultivation.