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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)

This Little Farmer Went to Market		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
This Little Farmer Went to Market The number of farmers' markets in the U.S. increased 63 percent from 1994 to 2000, with 19,000 farmers now selling at about 2,800 markets, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Many of the farmers tout their produce as being organically certified, and farmers at the New York Greenmarket have agreed to a moratorium on selling any genetically engineered crops. With no intermediaries betw ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Kiwi Me a River		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Kiwi Me a River In a big loss for the Green Party in New Zealand, the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification has rejected the idea of a country free of genetically engineered crops and animals. The commission determined that biotech foods need not "threaten New Zealand's 'clean green' image," recommending that research on the foods "proceed with caution," including limiting the size of any release of genetically engi ...
Topics: GMOs, New Zealand (all these topics)

On De Loose		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
On De Loose Greenpeace U.K. is in a tizzy because of mysterious DNA found in Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, the world's most widely grown genetically engineered crop. The unexpected string of DNA, which was found by Belgian government and university scientists, is located next to the corn's inserted gene, provoking the enviro group to accuse Monsanto of not knowing as much about its product as it should. Green ...
Topics: GMOs, Greenpeace, health, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Kernel Clink		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Kernel Clink The U.S. EPA indicated on Friday that it would not permit even trace amounts of genetically modified StarLink corn into human food. StarLink, which was previously approved for use as animal feed, was found to have entered the food supply last year, prompting the costly recall of taco shells and other corn products. Despite a request by the maker of StarLink, Aventis CropScience, to ease restrictions on its product, the EPA stuck w ...
Topics: GMOs, US EPA (all these topics)

Monarch for a Day	Suzy Becker	26 Mar 2001	Ha.

Topics: GMOs, wildlife (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)

Well Hello, Dolly	Suzy Becker	01 Dec 2000	Ha.

Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

No-Thanks Giving	Suzy Becker	17 Nov 2000	Ha.

Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

How 'Bout One of Those GM Trees?	Suzy Becker	29 Sep 2000	Ha.

Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

The Gambler	Donella H. Meadows	28 Aug 2000	Global Citizen
"If I gamble, I usually gamble at high-stakes, high-payoff games." That's a boast not from James Bond, but from a chemist speaking to the prestigious journal Science (the July 14 issue, from which all quotes but the last one in this column are taken). His name is Peter Schultz. He works at Scripps Research Institute and at a new Genomics Institute created by Novartis, a company deep into genetic engineering. What he's gambling with is the c ...
Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

Stacking the Biotech Deck		21 Aug 2000	Global Citizen
Back in the 1970s the awesome news that scientists had learned how to redesign genes started a regulatory flurry. Distinguished panels met to ask imponderable questions. Could some human-created form of life carry self-multiplying havoc into the world? How can we prevent such a disaster? Image: Courtesy DOE Human Genome Project. Back then genetic escapes were considered so likely that gene-splicing research was carried out in sealed labs. The citizens of Cam ...
Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

Take the World Food Quiz	Donella H. Meadows	14 Aug 2000	Global Citizen
Gathering grain in Sudan. In some ways the world food situation hasn't changed for decades. There are still millions of starving people. There are still places where so much food is grown that it has to be thrown away. Fertilizers and pesticides pollute the countryside; soil erodes; groundwater tables drop. Every year when the new statistics come out, I flip through and think, "Ho hum." It's easy to become inured to tragedy if ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Animal Dreams	Suzy Becker	17 Jul 2000	Ha.

Topics: GMOs (all these topics)

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