Corporate Ties

• Enemy of the State
• Regent Calls Pact Raw Deal For Farmers
• Dr. Ignacio Chapela Takes UC to Court, Citing Discrimination
• UC Biotech Critic Reinstated, Given Tenure
• KVIE Show Criticized Over Its Sponsors

Events

• The Future of Food
• When Food From the Laboratory Leaves a Bitter Taste

Exposing Biotech

• US Launches Probe Into Sales Of Unapproved Transgenic Corn
• Tons of Experimental Biotech Corn Inadvertently Sent to Farmers
• Stray Seeds Had Antibiotic-Resistance Genes
• GM Industry Puts Human Gene into Rice
• When fed to rats it affected their kidneys and blood counts. So what might it do to humans?
• Genetic Trespass
• Farm Show Goes National
• US Says Cyprus Ties Could Suffer Over GMO Plan
• More GM Contamination Found in Crops
• The Myth of Coexistence (PDF 97kb)
• GMOs a Huge Subject of Debate
• Seventh Anniversary of GM Safety Scandal
• The Genetic Shell Game, or, Now you see it! Now you don't!
• Japan Finds 9th U.S. Corn Cargo Tainted With Bt-10
• Global Seed Industry Concentration - 2005
• A Deadly Epidemic and the Attempt to Hide its Link to Genetic Engineering
• GM Crop Scrapped As Mice Made Ill

GE Wheat

• New Study Says Costs of Roundup Ready Wheat Are Greater Than Benefits

Global South

• Will Biotech Feed the World? The Broader Context
• [Iraq's] Order 81
• GM Foods to Undergo Close Scrutiny, Says Fawaz Al-Alami
• Environmentalists Claim Modified Corn Included in U.N. Aid
• Mexico Approves Planting and Sale of GM Crops
• Report Slams Bt Cotton
• GMOs 'Can Cause Food Shortages'
• Illegal GE Rice Contaminates Food Chain in China
• Angry Andhra Uproots Monsanto
• Seeds of Ignorance
• Ghana Stops Importation of GM Foods
• Syngenta Bid to Monopolise Rice Patents
• The Indian Seed Act and Patent Act: Sowing The Seeds of Dictatorship
• Government Stops Research on Maize (Kenya)
• Caribbean Officials to Hold Talks on Genetically Modified Food Imports
• Farm Bodies Seek Ban on Bt Cotton Cultivation
• CSOs Report Foul Practices in Bt Cotton Sales
• Rice in a Private Grip
• ICMR Calls for Mandatory Labelling of GM Foods
• China Slows GMO Rice Plan as Concerns Mount

Home

• Japanese translation of "Heartbreak in the Heartland"
  
• German translation of "Heartbreak in the Heartland"
  
• Russian translation of "Heartbreak in the Heartland"
  

In the Field

• Growers Avoid Altered Alfalfa
• U.S. May Soon Lead The World In Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
• Roundup Ready Alfalfa on the Way
• Report Slams Bt Cotton
• Biotech Alfalfa This Year
• Genetically-modified Bt Cotton a Cropper: Study from R Akhileshwari
• PIRG: New Report Reveals Increasing Experimentation on Biopharm Crops
• Super Foods Flex Their Clout
• Modified Rape Crosses with Wild Plant to Create Tough Pesticide-resistant Strain
• Herbicide-resistant Weed Plagues California
• Genetically Engineered Crops Use More Pesticide
• Scientists Warn of GM Superweed Risk
• Genetically Modified Vines Worry French Winemakers
• Tennessee Researchers Confirm Glyphosate-Resistant Pigweed
• Scientists Confirm Failures of Bt-Crops
• GM Crops "Ruin Fields for 15 Years"

Legal & Government

• Canadian Government to Unleash Terminator Bombshell at UN Meeting
• Farmers Divided Over Seed Liability
• Cornell Staggered By Legal Blow
• Iowa Bills Fight GM Free Zones and Farmer Choice
• US States Passing Laws to Block Local GMO-free Ordinances
• How Preemptive Seed Legislation is Destroying Democracy
• [VT] Senate Passes GMO Liability Bill
• EU Nations to Ban Suspected GMO Corn Imports
• [Alaska] Bill Requires Labeling Genetically Altered Fish
• Canada Refuses Visa to GM Foods Expert
• Africa's Top Biosafety Envoy Shut Out of Canada Talks
• Canada Rapped for 'Censoring' Biotech Critics
• Judges Order Disclosure of Secret Study on GM Risks
• EU Ministers Uphold Sovereign Right to Ban GMOs
• Organic Farmers Granted Leave to Appeal Class Certification Decision
• Canada Grants New Controversial Terminator Patent To US Company
• Voters Reject Sonoma Ban on Genetically Modified Crops
• Wildlife Refuge Used for Genetically Modified Crops
• French court: Activists' Destruction of GM Crops Was Justified

Monsanto

• Monsanto Busted for Bribing Indonesian Official
• Monsanto "Seed Police" Scrutinize Farmers
• Monsanto Assault on U.S. Farmers Detailed in New Report
• Monsanto Buying Leader in Fruit and Vegetable Seeds
• Roundup® Highly Lethal to Amphibians in Natural Setting, Finds University of Pittsburgh Researcher
• Monsanto Fights Back Over Controversial GM Study
• Monsanto Agrees To Release Of Feeding Study Evaluations
• Clash over GM Seeds Brings Private Eyes, Angst - and Lawsuits
• Crop King Monsanto Seeks Pig-Breeding Patent Clout
• Monsanto to Bitter Greens: "Cease" and Desist
• Bitter Greens Blog Responds to Monsanto

Other GMOs

• The Beef About Clones
• Now, Bioengineered Trees Are Taking Root
• Campaign Demands USDA Halt Field Releases of Genetically Engineered Trees
• China's Wild Card on Transgenic Tree Front
• The Shape Of Forests to Come
• Agency Weighs Genetically Modified Grass
• Creating 'Human-animals' for Research
• US Biotech Firm Sees FDA Approving Cloned Meat
• Field-testing Bacterial Pathogens with Antibiotic Resistance Genes
• Field-testing GM Fungus
• Aqua-Bounty's New Immune Booster for Shrimp Shows Need for Regulatory Certainty in U.S. for Biotech
• First Documentary on Genetically Engineered Trees Released
• GE Trees at the Meeting in Vitoria
• Creating First Synthetic Lifeform

Pharming

• Pharmaceutical Rice In Missouri Threatens Food Supply
• Bootheel Farmers Gain Allies in Rice War
• Busch to Boycott State's Rice if Genetic Alterations Allowed
• Anheuser-Busch Drops Threat to Boycott Missouri Rice
• Ventria Won't Try to Grow Modified Rice in Missouri This Year
• Firm Asks to Use Altered Algae
• Ex-employee Testimony to the Hawai'i Department of Agrigulture on Pharm Algae
• Biotech Corn Returns to Iowa
• Growers Oppose Drugs Made of Flax
• Pharming Underground
• Grain of Doubt
• Court Orders Public Oversight of 'Biopharm' Experiment in Hawai'i
• Biotech Company Closes
• Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals (PMPs) Financial Risk Profile

Regulatory

• FDA Plan Offers Upfront GMO Safety Assurance
• Government Probes New Corn Variety
• Codex Committee Defers Decision on Biotech Labeling
• Agency Weighs Genetically Modified Grass
• Ireland Intercepts U.S. Biotech Corn
• Global Organic Sector Calls For Strict Liability Under The Cartagena Protocol On Biosafety
• Syngenta's Bt10 Corn Found in Japanese Imports
• Brazil, New Zealand Block Decision on Documentation of GMOs
• Complexities of GM Issue Delay WTO Decision
• EU Clears GM Maize Despite Member State Opposition
• GM Rape Approved for Import into EU
• Crop Trials Criticized

Science

• Scrambling and Gambling with the Genome
• 'Frankenfood' Revolution Stalls
• Most Offspring Died When Mother Rats Ate Genetically Engineered Soy
• Genetically Modified Peas Caused Dangerous Immune Response in Mice

Scientific Studies

• Transgenic Crops Take Another Knock
• Biggest Study of GMO Finds Impact on Birds, Bees
• The End for GM Crops: Final British Trial Confirms Threat to Wildlife
• EU Seeks Advice on Long-Term Effects of GMO Crops
• Health Fears Over Secret Study into GM Food
• University of Newcastle Research on the Transfer of DNA from GM Food into Bacteria in the Human Gut
• Insects Develop Resistance to Engineered Crops Cornell Researchers Say
• Study Contests Professor's Controversial Paper
• Gene-Modified Corn Gone from Mexico, Study Finds
• Chapela and Quist Response to PNAS Article
• Bt Maize Inferior Yield
• Genetically Modified Soy Affects Posterity (rat study)
• GM Pea Causes Allergic Damage in Mice

Scientists Speak

• Genetic Researchers Cite Specter Of Profits (Asilomar 2000)
• Asilomar Revisited: Lessons for Today? (2000)
• Food Fight
• 'Rush to Exploit Biotechnology' Concerns Suzuki
• Biology Prof. Resigns Over Government Use of Plant Research
• Who's Afraid of GMOs? Me!
• Sensible Regulations For GE Food Crops
• The Side Effects of Drugged Crops
• Open Letter From Dr. Takahiro Kanagawa on GM Rice Containing Defensin
• Glyphosate and Fusarium Crop Death

Taking Control

• Hungary Bans Monsanto GMO Maize Seeds
• Dow Agrosciences Field Trials of GM Maize Blocked
• Investors Challenge Monsanto Over Risks Of Genetically Engineered Products
• Farmer Protection Acts Crop Up in Three States
• Fall Vote Likely on GMO Ban
• Government Forced to Reveal [Biotech] Crop Test Sites
• What's Wrong with Crop Biotechnology in Hawaii
• Biotech Wheat Foes Ask For Lawsuit Regulation
• Tillamook Creamery Bans Artificial Growth Hormone
• Tillamook Dairies Uphold Hormone Ban
• Tillamook Farmers Ban Hormone Use
• Shopping to Avoid GMOs and Action Suggestions (PDF-336kb)
• Ecopledge's GMO Food Facts (PDF-302kb)
• Campaign Demands USDA Halt Field Releases of Genetically Engineered Trees
• Whole Foods Shareholder Resolution
• Shareholder Proposal on Whole Foods Market Proxy Statement
• Top Ten Reasons Why Whole Foods Should Tell the Whole Truth
• Brooklin Voters Reject Modified Crops
• Whole Foods Ducks GE Labeling
• Whole Foods Shareholders Applaud Company's New Policy to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
• Filmmaker Challenges Monsanto to Debate on Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods
• Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods
• Worldwide Register of Genetic Contamination Introduced
• National Food Fight Launched To Stop Genetically Engineered Crops
• Agri-Mark Weighs Ban on Cow Hormone
• Ballot Fight Targets Biotech Crops
• Turning Point for California's Farm Industry
• How to Fight Preemptive Legislation in Your State
• Preemption Toolkit
• GMO Debate Comes to Lake County
• Switzerland 'Backs GM Crop Ban'
• Kraft to Stop GM Food Sales on Mainland

Texas News

• Local Grassroots Campaign Targets Genetically Modified Food

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