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Not Corn Yesterday U.K. Ministers Green-Light Genetically Modified Corn		09 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Not Corn Yesterday U.K. Ministers Green-Light Genetically Modified Corn In the U.K., they fight over genetically modified foods the way folks in the U.S. fight over "America's Next Top Model." The daily drip of accusations and counter-accusations can blur the eyes, but today brought a bona fide significant development: U.K. ministers officially announced that they would allow commercial plantings of genetically modified corn, ...
Topics: GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Hey Hey, Ho Ho, GMO Has Got to Go Northern California County Passes Anti-GM Initiative		03 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, GMO Has Got to Go Northern California County Passes Anti-GM Initiative Northern California's Mendocino County yesterday passed a voter initiative that bans the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops. The surprising 56-44 percent victory capped the county's most contentious and high-profile election ever, in which the initiative's backers were outspent by a whopping 6-1 margin. Supporters of Measure H raised $93,525, whi ...
Topics: California, GMOs (all these topics)

Look for the GM Label Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods Rages On		27 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Look for the GM Label Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods Rages On It's been an action-packed couple of weeks in the ongoing global dispute over genetically engineered foods. Just today, a conference of 80 nations agreed on a strict set of labeling rules for international commodity shipments of GM foods -- rules which will form the basis of the biodiversity-protecting U.N. Cartagena Protocol -- over strenuous objections from the U.S ...
Topics: GMOs, United Nations (all these topics)

GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA Most ordinary crop seeds in the U.S. are contaminated with strands of genetically modified DNA, and unless federal regulations and farm practices are tightened considerably, the entire U.S. food supply will soon contain GM elements, says a report released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scien ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, health, United States (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Corn to Be Wild U.K. to Approve Planting of GM Corn		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Corn to Be Wild U.K. to Approve Planting of GM Corn The British government is set to give the go-ahead for genetically modified corn to be grown in the nation, according to documents leaked yesterday from a meeting of top government officials. A formal announcement is expected next week, though the government maintains that no final decision has been reached. The leaked discussion notes that "th ...
Topics: GMOs, international government agencies, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Crop the Insanity USDA to Revisit Rules Governing GM Crops		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Crop the Insanity USDA to Revisit Rules Governing GM Crops The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday that it will begin revising rules governing genetically modified crops. Several of the proposed revisions sounded like good news to wary enviros. One proposed a wide-ranging environmental impact statement assessing the ecological impact of current regulations, something environmental and consumer groups have be ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (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)

Bad Seed Despite European Objections, GM Agriculture Marches On		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Seed Despite European Objections, GM Agriculture Marches On Worldwide use of genetically modified crops grew by 15 percent last year, according to a report by the industry-backed International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. In 1996, the year GM crops were made commercially available, 4.3 million acres were used for biotech cultivated crops. By 2003, ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Which 'cide Are You On? GM Crops Linked to Rise in Herbicide and Pesticide Use		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Which 'cide Are You On? GM Crops Linked to Rise in Herbicide and Pesticide Use Pesticide and herbicide use on genetically modified (GM) crops in the U.S. has risen markedly over the past eight years, surpassing the concentration of agrochemicals sprayed on conventional crops, according to an analysis of U.S. government data. This research appears to blow a hole in one of the primary arguments in favor of GM crops -- that ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics (all these topics)

Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread The stakes in the debate over genetically modified (GM) food are about to jump significantly, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to complete a safety and nutrition review of wheat that has been genetically altered by biotech giant Monsanto. To date, GM crops have largely been used as animal feed and proc ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Starlink Trek: The Next Generation Banned Biotech Corn Variety Still Showing Up in U.S. Food Supplies		02 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Starlink Trek: The Next Generation Banned Biotech Corn Variety Still Showing Up in U.S. Food Supplies Genetically engineered StarLink corn is still contaminating U.S. food supplies, three years after it was pulled from the market. StarLink, which produces its own pesticide, was approved in 1998 -- but only for use in animal feed or industrial processes because of concerns that it might cause severe allergic reactions in ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, health (all these topics)

No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
No Silva Lining Once Seen as Ally, Brazilian President Draws Fire From Enviros It's been a roller coaster year for environmentalists in Brazil. Last October, with the election to the presidency of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula, for short), they were elated, because he was seen as one of their own. Now, though, enviros say they have been betrayed on virtually ev ...
Topics: Brazil, dams, energy, GMOs, international government agencies, nuclear power, rainforests (all these topics)

The Wrath of Grapes Ban on Biotech Crops Makes the Ballot in a California County		19 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
The Wrath of Grapes Ban on Biotech Crops Makes the Ballot in a California County Voters in Northern California's Mendocino County will be the first in the nation with a chance to rebuff growers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Local anti-biotechnology activists gathered enough signatures to secure a spot on the March ballot for an initiative that would ban the raising of GM crops in the county. The camp ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics (all these topics)

Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods A corn product developed by the Anglo-Swiss biotech company Syngenta will likely be approved for sale by the European Union next month, ending a five-year de facto ban on new genetically modified foods on the continent. A number of other GM product approvals are expected to follow. This may mollify the U.S., which has been fighting f ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, Switzerland, United States (all these topics)

Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals A coalition of green groups and consumer advocates took the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court yesterday in an effort to halt experimental planting of "biopharmaceutical crops," plants genetically engineered to produce medicine. The coalition, which includes Friends of the Earth and the Center for Food S ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, health (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)

The Bees' Knees Are Knocking Major British Study Pans GM Crops as Harmful to Wildlife		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Bees' Knees Are Knocking Major British Study Pans GM Crops as Harmful to Wildlife Bad news just keeps on coming for British backers of genetically modified foods, a group whose most high-profile member is Prime Minister Tony Blair. The latest: A three-year government investigation billed as the world's largest study of the environmen ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

You Can't Hide, You're Hybridized Hybridization Between GM and Non-GM Plants Inevitable, Study Finds		10 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: GMOs You Can't Hide, You're Hybridized Hybridization Between GM and Non-GM Plants Inevitable, Study Finds Confirming the fears of opponents of genetic modification, cross pollination between modified and wild plants cannot be prevented and could lead to the creation of hybrid "superweeds," according to Britain's first national study of how genes pass from crops to weeds. The findings differ from earlier research on gene flow, which found minimal danger of hybridization ...
Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

Can't Get a Piece of the Rock British Insurance Companies Would Not Cover Farmers Growing GM Crops		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Can't Get a Piece of the Rock British Insurance Companies Would Not Cover Farmers Growing GM Crops The general public in the U.K. is deeply opposed to genetically modified crops, and now British farmers have yet another reason not to grow them: No one will insure them. A study by the agricultural organization Farm found that none of Britain's five major insurance underwriters would be willing to insure farms that ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans In a big blow to opponents of biotechnology, Brazil announced last week that it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, ending its role as one of the leading nations opposed to GM crops. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government had previously promised to oppose GM plantings, bu ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business, deforestation, food and agriculture, GMOs, rainforests (all these topics)

As If British Food Weren't Bad Enough British Citizens Voice Overwhelming Opposition to GM Foods		24 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
As If British Food Weren't Bad Enough British Citizens Voice Overwhelming Opposition to GM Foods The British government is poised to support the planting of GM crops in Europe when a five-year ban on them expires next year -- but British citizens could scarcely disapprove more of that plan. According to "GM Nation?," a report on the results of 600 meetings held throughout England this summer, British sentiment on GM foods &qu ...
Topics: GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Better Biosafe than Sorry A new GMO treaty is about to get tangled up in trade tussles	Lissa Harris	11 Sep 2003	Main Dish
All but eclipsed by the somber anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will become international law today with little fanfare. Nonetheless, its entry into force could mark the beginning of a new era in international trade -- with potentially sweeping consequences for the environment. Fields of grain -- GMO barley, to be precise. P ...
Topics: food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Gm-oh! Blair Backing Off Plans to Introduce GM Crops in UK		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Gm-oh! Blair Backing Off Plans to Introduce GM Crops in UK British Prime Minister Tony Blair is dramatically scaling back his plans to open UK farms up to widespread planting of genetically modified crops. The Blair government had been expected next month to announce blanket approval for GM plantings, but faced with unwavering public opposition to GM foods, and weakened by scandals surrounding the Iraq war, the government has backed of ...
Topics: GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Salad Daze On Roundup	Umbra Fisk	18 Aug 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have a large, organic (hopefully) vegetable garden. However, I occasionally use Roundup around the edges to keep invasive grasses from creeping in. Now, I have been given to understand that Roundup is relatively safe and breaks down almost immediately. What are your thoughts on this subject? I totally trust your judgment. Betsy Michigan Dearest Betsy, Roundup is relatively safe -- it's not as bad as, say, depleted uranium -- but that ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food, gardening, GMOs, health, organic food, toxics (all these topics)

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