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A Kernel of Wisdom Europe may ban two types of genetically modified corn		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 9:58 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Europe may end up sans two types of genetically modified corn, as E.U. environment officials have proposed a ban on the seeds. Officials say the GM corn, made by powerful biotech companies DuPont Pioneer, Dow Agrosciences, and Syngenta, could harm wildlife and disrupt food chains. E.U. Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the genetically modified corn could have "unexpected ecos ...
Topics: agriculture, European Union, GMOs, industrial ag, news (all these topics)

Bush names a new USDA chief The former governor of North Dakota loves biofuel and GMOs	Tom Philpott	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Speaking yesterday at a gathering of the Grocery Manufacturers Association -- a trade group whose member list reads like a directory of multinational food corporations -- President Bush waxed coy about his new choice for USDA secretary. This afternoon I'm going to name a new Secretary of Agriculture. I'm not going to tell you who it is, because I'm trying to -- [laughter] -- but I think you'll like him. He understands agriculture, of course, and he'll be a good follo ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs, agriculture, biofuels, politics, industrial ag (all these topics)

Attack of the Helpful Tomatoes Radiation breeding of plants is way better than it sounds		28 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 3:47 PM on 28 Aug 2007 Think two wrongs don't make a right? Meet radiation breeding, a method of modifying crops by zapping them with gamma rays. While "radiation" and "modify" are unpleasant words to many, "I'm not doing anything different from what nature does. I'm not using anything that was not in the genetic material itself," says plant breeder Pierre Lagoda. The ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs, news (all these topics)

LS9 promises 'renewable petroleum' New company says it can make better, cheaper biofuels	David Roberts	30 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Picture a liquid fuel that is derived from the same feedstocks as cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, sugar cane, corn stover) but contains 50% more energetic content and is made via a process that uses 65% less energy. Unlike cellulosic ethanol, this fuel can be distributed via existing oil pipelines rather than gas-hogging trucks and trains, dispensed through existing gas stations rather than specialized pumps, and used in existing engines rather than modified " ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, GMOs, innovation (all these topics)

Pit by Pit Cherries, their cousins, and a clafouti recipe	Roz Cummins	26 Jul 2007	'Tis the Season
I went to a friend's house for breakfast a few days ago, and she placed an enormous colander full of ripe cherries in the center of the table. Gazing at it made me feel like we were experiencing the very quintessence of summer. It was right up there with the feeling of walking barefoot in wet grass or eating fresh corn on the cob. Life is just a bowl of cherries. Photo: iStockphoto The sight of it reminded me th ...
Topics: food, GMOs, green living, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Edible Media: Gene blues Why we may one day bitterly regret GM crops	Tom Philpott	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Edible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web. I spent the weekend in Atlanta at the first-ever U.S. Social Forum -- an extremely interesting event, but not the place to go for someone needing to catch up on rest. Now I'm laid up with a sore throat, which gave me a chance to do today something I never get to do anymore -- curl up with the print version of the Sunday New York Times. I especially like to dig into the b ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Moscow on the Cud Sign Russian capital introduces label for GM-free food		25 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Moscow on the Cud Sign Russian capital introduces label for GM-free food Now you can have your GM-free borscht and read it, too: next week, the city of Moscow will debut a groundbreaking label for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients. Under the leadership of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the city has devised a voluntary system of testing and labeling that will allow products to carry a GM-free label for a y ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs, news, Russia (all these topics)

Scientists create new crop of genetically modified crops Pesticide efficacy is decreasing	Maywa Montenegro	31 May 2007	Gristmill
If you've ever colored Easter eggs -- I mean the old-fashioned way, with food-coloring, not with those plastic wraparounds -- then you know that when you mess up, you have two options: rinse them off with some white vinegar and start over, or forge ahead, layer even more color on top, and hope that something presentable emerges. Okay, so that metaphor's a bit of a stretch, but that's what came to mind when I read, earlier this week, that scientists at the Univers ...
Topics: agriculture, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Monsanto tastes defeat Twice in one week!	Tom Philpott	08 May 2007	Gristmill
Monsanto has barreled its way toward dominance over the global seed market with strong-arm tactics and friends in high places. As evidence of the former, the roguish company once threatened to sue me -- then a neophyte blogger with 30 readers -- on the most trivial grounds possible. As for the latter, software monopolist Bill Gates, evidently impressed with the way Monsanto tosses around its market girth, has tapped a former Monsanto exec to help lead his foundation' ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Challenging Monsanto in Munich A guest blog from farmer's rights legend Hope Shand	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In the global fight to preserve what's left of agricultural biodiversity from the ravages of the multinational chemical/seed giants and their government lackeys, no civil-society organization stands taller than the ETC Group. Among other projects, ETC documents the growing dominance over the global seed market by a handful of firms: Monsanto, Syngenta, and Dupont. The following guest post, by ETC research director Hope Shand, details Monsanto's quest to enforce it ...
Topics: Big Ag, biodiversity, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Genetic tampering explodes in our face The sorcerer's apprentice running amok in ag?	JMG	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Gene tampering (called "genetic modification" by the same people who call gambling "gaming" and sewer sludge "biosolids") is a terrible idea, said the "extreme environmentalists" who warned that, nature being what it is, it wouldn't be long before we would see invasive weed species adopting whatever characteristics we created. Those same 'alarmists' warned that gene tampering had nothing to do with helping feed the world, but instead ha ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs (all these topics)

Also amusing	David Roberts	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The Daily Show on cloned meat:
Topics: agriculture, food, funnies, GMOs (all these topics)

Genetically-modified malaria-resistant mosquitoes But the Franken-mozzies will still bite ... and their eyes glow red in the dark!	Robert Delfs	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Genetically-engineered mosquitoes that cannot transmit malaria could help stop the spread of the illness, according to a report in the The Guardian and other publications. Replacing wild strains of Anopheles with malaria-resistant GM mozzies could make a huge difference in the fight against malaria. Between 300 and 500 million people contract malaria every year, of which about 1 to 3 million die from the disease. Most of them are children, mostly poor, most living in ...
Topics: GMOs, toxics (all these topics)

Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa		13 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa A first-of-its-kind ruling in the U.S. will stop Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa in its tracks -- for now. Citing the USDA's failure to conduct an environmental impact statement before approving the crop in 2005 and its "cavalier" response to concerns that the franken-falfa could contami ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice A California company is one step closer to growing rice that contains human genes on a commercial scale. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a preliminary OK to a plan to sow 450 Kansas acres with the stuff this spring, with 2,750 more acres to come. Ventria Bioscience's three Frankenr ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, Kansas, news (all these topics)

Till There Was You Researchers hope new crops, methods will help farmers fight climate effects		04 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Till There Was You Researchers hope new crops, methods will help farmers fight climate effects Agricultural researchers are joining the legions who are working to help the world respond to climate change. A coalition called the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (which goes by the just-shy-of-delicious acronym CGIAR) is launching an initiative today that will pour money into developing crops that can ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Don't Cry to Them, Argentina Is Monsanto playing fast and loose with Roundup Ready Soybeans in Argentina?	Kelly Hearn	22 Sep 2006	Main Dish
Crying not for Argentina but for lost patent fees, Monsanto's legal hacks are in European courts suing to block millions of tons of Argentine soybean meal from docking on the continent. Bean there, sprayed that. Photo: iStockphoto Monsanto says that much of the meal crossing the Atlantic to feed Europe's cows and pigs contains traces of its genetically modified Rou ...
Topics: Argentina, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Fool Me Rice Unapproved GM rice from China pops up in European stores		07 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Fool Me Rice Unapproved GM rice from China pops up in European stores A variety of genetically modified rice from China has made it into Asian specialty stores and Asian restaurants in the E.U. -- and the Europeans ain't too happy about it. A new report from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth claims that some rice noodles imported into France, Germany, and Britain contain a strain of ...
Topics: China, European Union, Friends of the Earth, GMOs, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain		22 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain The U.S. government admitted last week that its commercial supply of long-grain rice has been contaminated by an illegal, untested, genetically modified strain with the warm-and-fuzzy name of LLRICE 601. The European Union, the biggest importer of U.S. long-grain rice, may decide to delay or ban imports; Japan ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Japan, news, United States (all these topics)

The Grass is Always Meaner on the Other Side Genetically modified grass found in the wild		16 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Grass is Always Meaner on the Other Side Genetically modified grass found in the wild In what could be the first confirmed instance of a genetically modified plant growing outside a farm in the U.S., EPA ecologists have found an unapproved type of GM grass in the wild in central Oregon. The EPA said the creeping bentgrass (could it sound more evil?), being developed by Scotts Miracle-Gro and Monsanto to be resistan ...
Topics: GMOs, Hawaii, news, Oregon, US EPA (all these topics)

Cotton a Trap GM cotton doesn't cut pesticide use long term, new research indicates		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Cotton a Trap GM cotton doesn't cut pesticide use long term, new research indicates Biotech giant Monsanto touts its genetically modified cotton seed -- spliced with the bollworm-killing Bt toxin -- as money- and earth-saving, because it lowers the need for pesticide use. Funny story about that: a new study found that cotton farmers using the seed soon fell back into heavier pesticide use. Researchers from Cornell University followed 481 ...
Topics: China, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Oil She Wrote On canola oil	Umbra Fisk	24 May 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I recently saw "organic canola oil" on a salad dressing bottle. I looked up the origin of canola oil, and it looks like it is a genetic modification of rapeseed. I thought organic certification disallowed genetically modified foods. What's the scoop? Tom Grundy Nevada City, Calif. Dearest Tom, Have you noticed yet that May is food month here on floor 2B? Food and plants, in honor of spring -- and to counter last month' ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, food and agriculture, GMOs, organic food (all these topics)

Genetically modified hubris Biotech crops have benefited shareholders in seed giants, but nobody else	Tom Philpott	16 Feb 2006	Gristmill
A couple of days ago, NY Times writer Andrew Pollack attempted to address the failure of biotech companies to 'improve' fruits and vegetable crops -- that is, to bring a genetically altered fruit or vegetable strain (as opposed to grains like corn and legumes like soy) from seed to supermarket. Unwittingly, the article illustrates the industry's hubris and the mainstream press's gullibility in covering the topic. Pollack opens thusly:At the dawn of the era of geneti ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs (all these topics)

You'll Eat It, and You'll Like It WTO says E.U. illegally blocked genetically modified crops		08 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
You'll Eat It, and You'll Like It WTO says E.U. illegally blocked genetically modified crops After years of striving to pry Europe open to biotech crops, Washington scored a crucial victory yesterday: A World Trade Organization panel found that the European Union had illegally blocked imports of genetically modified crops, and that several E.U. nations had no legal right to impose their own bans. Altho ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, news, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Dude, Where's My Crop? USDA failing to keep track of gene-mod crop experiments		17 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's My Crop? USDA failing to keep track of gene-mod crop experiments The U.S. Department of Agriculture has failed to adequately monitor thousands of acres of experimental biotechnology crops, according to, um, itself. A two-year internal investigation yielded a report released quietly -- that is to say, buried -- in the days before Christmas. In it, the department's inspector general said the USDA did not f ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

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