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You're Fired Up Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry		20 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
You're Fired Up Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry Former University of California at Berkeley professor and one-time biotech supporter Ignacio Chapela is fighting against what he alleges are huge sums of money being used by the biotech industry to influence research at U.S. universities. After what he says was a coordinated PR push by the industry, the science journal Nature abandoned support for his research ...
Topics: GMOs, politics, United States (all these topics)

We Was Cobbed! NAFTA panel says U.S. GM corn is invading Mexico		10 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
We Was Cobbed! NAFTA panel says U.S. GM corn is invading Mexico A panel of scientists convened by NAFTA at the request of Mexican farmers and officials has concluded that genetically modified corn grown in the U.S., where it is legal, is crossing the border and contaminating crops in Mexico, where it is not, and that the contamination constitutes a threat that needs to be addressed. (It is legal to use GM corn for f ...
Topics: GMOs, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer		21 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer Speaking of genetic drift: The Canadian Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday in a case that has become a cause celebre for both opponents and fans of agricultural biotechnology. Agro-giant Monsanto Co. sued Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser when its patented biotech canola was found growing in his ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Unsafe at Any Seed? A new consumer revolution could change the way we label food		30 Oct 2003	The Gist
There's a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign going on in New York City right now regarding smoking in public places. The ads feature slogans like, "If they ban smoking in airports, people will never fly again," and "If they ban smoking in bathrooms, people will never gossip again." I thought of this campaign when I stumbled across a Reuters article on Tuesday describing opposition to a new l ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Crop Dustup		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Dustup Speaking before the United States Coast Guard Academy yesterday, President Bush accused the European Union of undermining efforts to end widespread hunger in Africa by banning genetically modified (GM) food. Bush praised "high-yield bio-crops" as key to increasing productivity and ameliorating hunger in developing nations, and claimed the E.U. ban was based on "unfounde ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, population, United States (all these topics)

Ban Rollover		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Ban Rollover Starting up what's likely to be an ugly trade tussle, the Bush administration yesterday filed suit at the World Trade Organization against the European Union, challenging E.U. policies that severely restrict the import of genetically modified (GM) crops. U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick contends that the E.U. has in effect instituted a ban on GM products, which ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Test Ban Treat		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Test Ban Treat Here's one unintended consequence of the impending U.S. war against Iraq: The Bush administration has delayed a formal challenge to the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Recently, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick blamed the ban for widespread starvation in the developing world and said the administration was considering ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, Iraq, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Big Ban Boom		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Big Ban Boom Robert Zoellick, the Bush administration's chief trade official, is calling on the U.S. to challenge the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Zoellick claims the ban is both scientifically backward and "immoral," arguing that it deprives starving people in the developing world of food. The U.S. and t ...
Topics: Africa, European Union, globalization, GMOs, health, politics, population, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Cut the Crop		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cut the Crop Concerned that experimental genetically modified (GM) crops could contaminate their unaltered counterparts and creep into the nation's food supply, the White House has drafted new rules to protect consumers and avoid costly and disruptive food recalls. The rules, which were written by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, propose preliminary crop-safety assessments before beginning large field tri ...
Topics: GMOs, health, politics, United States (all these topics)

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure	Donella H. Meadows	09 Jan 2001	Global Citizen
What do you do when you want to move fast but the way ahead is dark, possibly dangerous, and almost entirely unknown? Accelerate? Proceed with moderation? Slow way down? Stop? Don't spray it. That question underlies most environmental regulations. We are not sure what pesticides are doing to soils, waters, other creatures, or ourselves. We have only a vague idea what our rising greenhou ...
Topics: climate, energy, GMOs, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

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