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Prodigal Son		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Prodigal Son The U.S. Agriculture Department has levied more than $3 million in fines against biotech company ProdiGene for mixing GM corn containing an animal vaccine with soybeans meant for human consumption. The contaminated soybeans were stopped before they reached the market, and the company, which makes pharmaceutical and industrial enzymes and proteins by growing them in GM corn, will pay $2.7 million for the value of ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Very Slow Food Movement		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Very Slow Food Movement After months of heated debate, the 15 farm ministers of the European Union agreed last week on labeling rules for genetically modified (GM) food and animal feed. Under the plan, all food and feed containing 0.9 percent GM ingredients or more would need to be identified as such; below that threshold, no labeling would be required. Pro-GM food ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Greenpeace, international government agencies (all these topics)

Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

You Will Live a GM-free Life ... in Bed		22 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
You Will Live a GM-free Life ... in Bed Until recently, China seemed to be positioning itself as a world leader in bioengineered foods, spending tens of millions of dollars on new technologies and touting the benefits of genetically modified rice, soybeans, and other crops. Now, though, the nation has imposed tough restrictions on domestic planting of genetically modified (GM) crops and strict labeling rules fo ...
Topics: business, China, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Measure for Measure		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Measure for Measure The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added its voice to those of the agriculture, biotechnology, and food-processing industries in opposing Oregon's ballot measure 27, which would require labeling of genetically modified foods sold in the state. In a letter sent Friday to Gov. John Kitzhaber (D), FDA Deputy Commissioner Lester Crawford said that GM foods "ar ...
Topics: business, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, green living, Oregon (all these topics)

The Seeds of Discontent		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Seeds of Discontent Despite a teeming black market for genetically modified seeds in Brazil, the country's leading presidential candidate says he would not lift a four-year ban on biotechnology anytime soon. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers' Party, who by all appearances was the victor in the first round of elections, held this weekend, opposes GM crops, saying they are harmful to small far ...
Topics: Brazil, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics (all these topics)

Sea, Sea, My Playmate		19 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sea, Sea, My Playmate More than 200 small grocers, restaurants, and seafood distributors in 40 U.S. states have announced that they will not buy, sell, or serve genetically altered fish. Among those joining the biotech boycott are such celebrity chefs as Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and Michael Schenk at Oceana in New York City. Whole Foods Market, the world's largest natural foods retailer, also signed on, b ...
Topics: Alice Waters, fishing, food, GMOs (all these topics)

On a Different Scale		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
On a Different Scale A pair of bills aimed at regulating genetically altered fish in food and the environment are facing a bitter fight in the California legislature. One of the proposed laws, a consumer right-to-know bill requiring the labeling of unpackaged transgenic fish in retail stores, passed the state Senate on Monday, but it must be approved by the Assembly by Saturday (the last day of the session) if it is to surviv ...
Topics: California, GMOs, marine life (all these topics)

Corn Bawl		22 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Corn Bawl In a slap in the face to the bioengineering industry, the government of Zambia has rejected thousands of tons of genetically modified corn offered as food aid to the starving nation. Instead, the country will buy conventional corn from Kenya and Tanzania, according to Zambian Finance Minister Emmanuel Kasonde. Kasonde declined to say how much corn the country plans to buy, or at what price, but he did say the purchase would cover the ...
Topics: GMOs, Zambia (all these topics)

Animal Crackers		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Animal Crackers The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the nation's highest scientific authority, has issued a long-awaited report cautioning that genetic manipulation of animals could pose a serious threat to the environment and human health. The report identifies a series of concerns about cloning and other genetic alteration of animals, ranging from fears that such animals could escape into the wild and chan ...
Topics: GMOs, National Academy of Sciences, wildlife (all these topics)

Pick Your Poison		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Pick Your Poison In the First World, debate over genetically modified (GM) foods is about differing ideologies; in southern Africa, where famine is deepening its grip, it is about life and death. The U.S. has offered to provide emergency food aid in the form of corn to seven stricken African countries, but some of that corn has been genetically modified. That leaves the governments of those nati ...
Topics: Africa, business, GMOs, health, population, United States (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)

Look for the Onion Label?		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Look for the Onion Label? It's not quite like a pie in the face or mashed potatoes on the cafeteria ceiling, but Oregonians can still expect a food fight come November. The state seems poised to be the first in the nation to vote on a labeling law for genetically modified foods, now that the backers of the initiative, Oregon Concerned Citizens for Safe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs, Oregon, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Zealander		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zealander New Zealand is one of the last countries in the world to have a food-production system entirely free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). But that could change when nearly 4 million voters go to the polls this Saturday to decide whether to lift a moratorium on the use of GMOs next year. In fact, the vote will decide more than that; it wil ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, New Zealand, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Where the Sun Don't Shine		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Where the Sun Don't Shine Confirming fears of those opposed to genetic engineering, researchers in Great Britain reported this week that DNA from transgenic crops can find its way into the bacteria that dwell in the human intestines. In a study by scientists at the University of Newcastle, seven volunteers (all of whom had earlier had their lower bowels removed in unrelated surgeries) were given a single meal consisting of a b ...
Topics: GMOs, health, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton For the first time, genetically modified insects have been released in the wild, in a secret location in the cotton fields of Arizona. The insects, pink bollworms, were modified by scientists to effectively destroy their own species; they are designed to be sterile, so that when they mate with natural bollworms, no offspring will result. Concern about the development is coming f ...
Topics: Arizona, business, GMOs, wildlife (all these topics)

The Look, the Feel of 'Cotton'	Suzy Becker	17 Jun 2002	Ha.
The Look, the Feel of "Cotton" 17 Jun 2002
Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

Blair Switch Project		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Blair Switch Project In what some observers saw as a thinly-veiled attack on environmentalists and animal-rights activists, British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that his nation risked being overtaken by other countries if it let public sentiment and vocal protesters stand in the way of scientific progress. Speaking yesterday to the Royal Society in London, Blair said Great Britain's economic future was jeopardized ...
Topics: animal welfare, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Teed Time		03 May 2002	Daily Grist
Teed Time Can you say, "Not in my backyard" with a British accent? That was the message villagers in southeastern England sent to the national government this week over a planned test site for genetically modified (GM) crops. In March, Environment Minister Michael Meacher announced that the government would test GM crops in Weeley Parish, Essex County, as part of the final year of government trials to determine the environmen ...
Topics: GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

I'm Too Sexy for My Gills		29 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
I'm Too Sexy for My Gills Meanwhile, in other news about fish, a transgenic version of the North Atlantic salmon is the first genetically engineered animal up for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as food. The fish looks more or less like its natural cousin, but it grows seven times faster and is, we kid you not, sexier (if you're a salmon of the opposite sex, that is). Scientists achieved those characteristics by includ ...
Topics: fishing, GMOs (all these topics)

Beet It		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Beet It Some genetically modified crops are likely to crossbreed with organic crops or wild plants, jeopardizing farms that are certified as GM-free, according to a European Union study. The Europe Environment Agency found that rapeseed, sugar beet, and maize had a medium to high probability of transferring genetic materials, while potatoes, wheat, and barley were unlikely to crossbreed. In related news, a British organic farming group ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs (all these topics)

Kenya Opener		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Opener Even though Kenya is a major food exporter, it hasn't reaped much benefit from the $20 billion-per-year global market in organic foods. Now some farmers and nonprofits in the African nation are trying to change that. Many Kenyans already grow their crops without chemical inputs, but up till now, not a single one has been certified as an organic ...
Topics: Africa, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, Kenya (all these topics)

Animal Crackers		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Animal Crackers Undaunted by the post-Sep. 11 anti-terrorism climate, an Animal Liberation Front spokesperson yesterday released the first-ever "year-end report" on illegal actions committed in the name of animals and the environment, or so-called eco-terrorism. The report cites 137 such acts in 2001, including an act of arson at the University of Washington that resulted in $5.3 ...
Topics: animal welfare, Federal Bureau of Investigation, GMOs, Washington (all these topics)

Go Fish!		08 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Go Fish! Maine's wild Atlantic salmon remain genetically distinct despite more than a century of fish-stocking, aquaculture escapes, and other threats to the species, according to an independent report prepared by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The report undermines the claim by Maine Gov. Angus King (I) and others that Maine salmon were genetically diluted and therefore did not merit protection ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, fishing, GMOs, Maine, marine life (all these topics)

Thought for Food		05 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Thought for Food The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has approved a precedent-setting, legally binding framework for protecting the genetic diversity of the world's crops. The deal reached over the weekend marks the culmination of years of difficult negotiations between poor countries and environmentalists on the one hand, and developed nations and multinational corporations on the other. Under the framewo ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, United Nations (all these topics)

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