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Seeds of Destruction GM Crops Harm Neighboring Flora and Fauna, British Test Results Indicate		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Seeds of Destruction GM Crops Harm Neighboring Flora and Fauna, British Test Results Indicate Genetically modified crops can cause more damage to nearby plants and animals than conventional strains of the same crops, according to preliminary results from British government farm trials. The three crops studied -- GM sugar beet, maize, and oilseed rape -- destroyed more insects and weeds than their non-GM counterparts. Th ...
Topics: GMOs, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing -- and no public input	Shelley Smithson	30 Jul 2003	Main Dish
Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, based in Champaign-Urbana, is one of dozens of experiments being conducted across the country in which scientists are altering the genetic structure of animals ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, fishing, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Crop Circles		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Circles A much-anticipated review by the British government of genetically modified (GM) crops has found that they are safe to consume but pose a serious threat to the environment. The 300-page report, produced by a panel of 24 scientists and policy advisors, is by far the most exhaustive study of GM crops to date. To the relief of GM advocates, it found that transgenic food products do n ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Label of Love		02 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Label of Love European lawmakers today adopted new food-labeling rules that could pave the way for lifting a European Union-wide ban on genetically modified (GM) products. The new rules will require labels for food and animal feed containing at least 0.9 percent GM ingredients. Though the move may lead to the opening of E.U. markets to GM foods, environmentalists and consumer advocates welcomed the change be ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, green living, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Weed Between the Lines		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Weed Between the Lines In a finding that undermines one key argument in favor of genetically modified (GM) crops, researchers at Iowa State University have discovered that a number of "superweeds" have developed a resistance to Monsanto's widely used Roundup herbicide. Monsanto has engineered crops that are tolerant of Roundup, the idea being that the chemical would kill everything in a field but the desire ...
Topics: business, GMOs, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Chef's Salud		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chef's Salud Across the Atlantic, another fracas is brewing over genetically modified foods. Yesterday protesters hit the streets in Sacramento, Calif., to rally against GM technology, one day before the start of a large international agricultural conference that is bringing together agriculture ministers from more than 100 countries and reps from biotechnology and agribusiness corporations. Family farmers, chefs, an ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Crop Circles		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Circles Negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union over genetically modified foods broke down yesterday in Geneva, furthering heightening trans-Atlantic tension and prompting the Bush administration to call on the World Trade Organization to begin hearing the dispute. At issue is a European ban on GM crops -- a ban that the U.S. agricultural industry says is costing ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United Nations, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Standing the Rules on Their Ear		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Standing the Rules on Their Ear More farmers are failing to comply with the rules for planting genetically modified (GM) corn than the biotechnology industry claims, according to a new study of government data. Almost 20 percent of U.S. farms growing BT corn, the main type of GM corn, violate the rules for doing so, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Those rules require farmers to plant at least 20 percent of their a ...
Topics: business, GMOs (all these topics)

Blair Switch Project		13 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Blair Switch Project As part of a broad cabinet reshuffle that has British politicians and citizens alike shaking their heads, U.K. Environment Minister Michael Meacher was asked yesterday by Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down. Meacher, who has held his post since 1997, was increasingly at odds with Blair over the issue of genetically modified crops; Meacher opposes them while Blair is pushing for their acceptance. First ...
Topics: GMOs, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

What if Money Did Grow on Trees?	Suzy Becker	04 Jun 2003	Ha.

Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

Hunger Strike		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
Hunger Strike The backlash has begun against President Bush's comment last week that a European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) foods is contributing to world hunger. The reality, critics say, is that the dispute over GM crops is an international agricultural battle with billion-dollar stakes, and that concern about famine in the developing world is a sideshow at best and a smokescreen ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, GMOs, politics, population (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)

Seedy		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Seedy Members of Brazil's Landless Peasant Movement occupied a test farm owned by biotechnology giant Monsanto last week, in a bid to expel the company and establish an organic farm on the site instead. The protestors say neither the people nor the government of the Brazilian state of Parana support genetically modified (GM) crops, such as the transgenic soybeans an ...
Topics: Brazil, business, environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

No Way, Solae! On engineered soy products	Umbra Fisk	15 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I don't know if you'll have time to answer this question, but while purchasing 8th Continent soymilk my husband noticed that there was Solae in it. After some research on the Internet, we discovered that Solae is made by DuPont and is a genetically engineered soybean, but we were unable to find anything negative about it. Do you know anything about Solae and if it is dangerous? Sincerely, Heather Anne Sacramento, ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living (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)

We Don't Cotton to This Idea		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
We Don't Cotton to This Idea Farmers in India are harvesting the nation's first approved biotech cotton crop, a development that has environmentalists and some nationalists nervous. About 55,000 growers, an estimated 2 percent of India's cotton farmers, have planted Monsanto's Bollgard cotton seed, genetically engineered with the Bt bacterium to be resistant to the bollworm, a troublesome cotton pest. The crop should allo ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, India (all these topics)

Attack of the Clones		08 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Attack of the Clones Move over, Dolly: For the first time in history, scientists have successfully cloned an endangered animal, giving rise to speculation about what role technology will play in preserving -- and even reviving -- imperiled species. Using a single frozen skin cell, scientists at the San Diego Zoo cloned a Javan banteng, a cattle-like animal native to Asia. The cell was taken from a captive banteng that died in 1980; the resul ...
Topics: GMOs, wildlife (all these topics)

A Lulu for Lula		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
A Lulu for Lula Brazilian enviros are up in arms over a federal move last week that will allow genetically modified (GM) soybeans to be sold in the country temporarily, through January 2004. GM crops are officially banned in Brazil, but so many farmers flout the prohibition that an estimated 12 percent of the nation's soy crop is genetically engineered. With millions of tons of GM soybeans already in the ground and growing, soy traders argued ...
Topics: Brazil, GMOs (all these topics)

Lack of Interest		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Lack of Interest Three months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture settled a case against a Texas-based biotechnology company whose genetically modified (GM) feed corn contaminated natural corn and soybeans. The USDA represented the settlement as a sharp crackdown on violators of GM standards -- but in fact, the settlement involved a no-interest $3.5 million government loan, meaning the American people will subsidize the ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

The Rootworm of All Evil		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Rootworm of All Evil In a major win for the biotech industry, the U.S. government yesterday gave Monsanto the green light to sell corn that has been genetically modified to resist rootworm disease, the most significant threat to the crop. The effort to combat rootworm has been the single biggest reason farmers use pesticides, so the decision will be a test case of whether genetically modified crops will bene ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Above the Bar		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Above the Bar Great Britain may soon use DNA bar codes to make it easy to spot genetically modified (GM) foods. The technology, developed by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge, would help regulators quickly spot foods or crops contaminated with GM organisms. The British government is weighing the possibility of requiring biotech companies to use the technology, which involves add ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, United Kingdom (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)

Weed Wackos		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Weed Wackos The widespread use of Roundup, a common herbicide developed by Monsanto, has caused weeds that are resistant to the chemical to spring up on a half-million acres of agricultural land across the U.S. At fault, scientists say, is the popularity of bioengineered crops that are "Roundup Ready" -- that is, created by Monsanto to be genetically impervious to the herbicide. Together, Roundup and Roundup Re ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics (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)

GM's My Anti-nutrient. What's Yours?		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
GM's My Anti-nutrient. What's Yours? Genetically modified food could contain excessive amounts of dangerous compounds because of the government's failure to adequately regulate the production of such foods, according to a report being released today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The report says the Food and Drug Administration made "obvious errors" in reviewing ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health (all these topics)

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