Exposing Biotech

• 2005 Was a Very Good Year for the Biotech Food Industry
• Monsanto's Man at the U.S. Trade Office
• A Columnist Backed by Monsanto
• Hawaii Serves As World's Biotech Lab
• Researcher Fined for Dumping Bio Waste
• America's Masterplan Is to Force GM Food on the World
• US May Press Africa on GMOs
• Risk or Benefit
• GM Food Goes on Trial
• Are There Human Genes in Your Food?
• U.S. Misled the World on Biotech Foods "Victory"
• Biotech Crops Will Hurt Family Farmers and Worsen the Energy Crisis
• Unusual Livestock Deaths Blamed on Bt Cotton
• Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines
• Contamination from Gene-altered Crop Trials Poses Unappreciated Threats to Wildlife
• Babies As Guinea Pigs
• Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease
• GM Food: A Guide for the Confused
• A Fourth of Corn Seeds Contaminated by GMOs
• Genetic Engineering No Magic Bullet for Africa's Hunger

Global South

• Mali Farmers Reject GM Crops as Attack on Their Way of Life
• Iran Takes Rice Biotech Lead
• Lid Stays on Modified Rice
• Doubts Over Cassava Project
• Stop Giving Approvals to Field Trials of GM Crops: SC
• Mexico Rejects Biotech Corn
• Mexico Shuts the Door on GM Maize

GMO Rice

• US Rice Farmers Sue Bayer CropScience over GM Rice
• Bayer Faces More Lawsuits Over GMO Rice
• EU Set to Stop GMO-Tainted US Rice
• Rice Contaminated by GM Has Been on Sale for Months
• Japan Suspends US Long-Grain Rice Imports
• Biotech Firm, Government Hid Rice Contamination from Public
• GMO Chinese Rice Found in EU
• EU Lacks Data on US GM Contamination
• Flap Over Modified Rice Weighs on Food Importers
• GM: The Cover-up
• Legal Challenge Plan Over GM Rice
• Tracing the Transatlantic Spread of GM Rice
• Gene-Altered Profit-Killer
• Rice Industry: Keep Genetically Engineered Varieties in the Lab
• Biotech Instills Fear and Loathing in California Rice Belt
• Rice Farmers Biggest Losers Over Altered Rice, Exec Says
• Biotech Rice Saga Yields Bushel of Questions for Feds
• USDA Gives Rubber-Stamp Market Approval to Genetically Engineered Rice Contaminating Food Supply
• Genetically Engineered Rice Wins USDA Approval
• Rice Not Fit for Human Consumption in Ghana?
• Rice Industry Tackles Export Problem
• Feds Combine Lawsuits by Rice Farmers

GMO Wheat

• More Voices Joining Chorus for GMO Wheat
• Syngenta Moves Closer to Launching GM Wheat
• US Food Sector Wary of GMO Wheat

In the Field

• UM Researcher Cites GE Contamination
• 1600 Sheep Die After Grazing in Bt Cotton Field
• GMO Contaminated Papaya Seed Sold
• Seven-year Glitch
• Farmers Use As Much Pesticide with GM crops, US Study Finds
• Bollworms Feeding on Bt Cotton in Arkansas
• Johnsongrass Resistance to Glyphosate Confirmed in Argentina
• Alfalfa Growers Asked to Consider Risks Before Planting
• Pigweed Not Only Threat to Glyphosate Resistance
• Brazil: Transgenic Soybean Seeds Increase Herbicides
• Tractors Begin Destroying Corn Crops

Legal & Government

• [VT] House Waters Down GMO Seed Legislation
• [NY] Bill Would Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Seeds
• Compromise Collapses on Vermont's Modified-crops Bill
• Weed-resistant Alfalfa Provides Fodder to Activists
• Justices Reach Out to Consider Patent Case
• Patently Ridiculous
• Summary of Genetically Engineered Food Legislation
• Governor Vetoes GE Seed Liability Bill
• Consumer Group Sues FDA Over Biotech Foods
• Federal Court Rules Biopharm Permits Issued Illegally in Hawai'i
• Monsanto Anti-Farmer Patents To Be Reexamined At Pubpat Request
• Seed & Plant Preemption Bills Fail in 2006 Legislatures
• Patent Abuse: Monsanto Intimidates American Farmers
• MRTPC Issues Notice to Monsanto
• EPA Fines Syngenta $1.5 Million for Distributing Unregistered Genetically Engineered Pesticide

Monsanto

• Monsanto May Commercialize Terminator
• Rise in Rate of Twin Births May Be Tied to Dairy Case
• Monsanto Gives $15 Million to Danforth Plant Science Center
• PUBPAT Challenges Monsanto Patents Being Used To Bankrupt American Farmers
• Monsanto Sued For Alleged Glyphosate Monopoly

Other GMOs

• Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service
• Synthetic Biology - Global Societal Review Urgent!
• Global Coalition Sounds the Alarm on Synthetic Biology
• The New Chainsaw
• Mice Deaths Are Setback in Gene Test
• Genetically Modified Ice Cream Could Be Coming to Britain
• Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears
• Nanofood
• Escaped Golf-Course Grass Frees Gene Genie in the US
• Grass Created in Lab Is Found in the Wild
• Frankenstein Fuels
• Bio to Nano: Technology, Risk and Democracy
• False & Destructive "Solutions" to Global Warming
• UN Leader Urges Biotech Safeguards
• Genetically-modified Fish Proteins in Breyer's Ice Cream
• The Dangers of Genetically Modified Wine Yeast

Pharming

• Biotech Plan in Missouri Suffers Setback
• Down on the Biopharm, Missouri Plows Ahead
• Frightened Rice Industry Wants Tiny Firm to 'Go Away'
• Gene-Altered Crops Denounced
• Bio Firm Plans Kansas Rice Plant
• Collard and Cauliflower as a Base for Production of Recombinant Antigens

Regulatory

• UN Meeting Undermines Moratorium on Terminator: Goal to Approve Terminator is Now Clear
• Europe's Rules on GMOs and the WTO
• WTO vs. Europe: Less (and More) Than It Seems
• Safety Checks on GMOs Flawed: EU Environment Chief
• GM Debate: Coexistence Made to Measure for EU
• EU Commission 'Admitted GM Food Uncertainty'
• Poland Set to Approve Gene Crop Ban Despite EU
• US Did Not Win Transatlantic GM Trade Dispute
• GM Debate: Coexistence Made to Measure for EU
• Keeping Tabs on Rogue GMOs [NZ]
• GM Organic Contamination Stokes EU Controversy
• Deficiencies in Federal Regulatory Oversight of Genetically Engineered Crops
• EU to Debate Approving First "Live" GMO in 8 Years
• Hungary Set To Pass "Strictest" GMO Crop Law
• Potato Crop Trial 'GM by Back Door'
• Scientists Get Go-ahead for Genetically Engineered Peanuts

Scientific Studies

• The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformation
• Can Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn residues and Bt-corn plants affect the earthworm?
• GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile

Scientists Speak

• Gene Shuffling to Produce Food and Feed Crops
• National Regulations Should Reflect Risks of GE Crops
• Cozy Relationship Between Universities, Industry, Hurts Science: Suzuki
• Genes From a Wild Plant, Solanum Bulbocastanum, Used to Resist Potato Blight Fungus
• Health Risks of GE Food
• From Barnyard to Bedside: Is FDA in Control?
• Transgenic Virus Resistant Plums
• Genetic Engineering (GE) and Omitted Health Research: Still No Answers to Ageing Questions

Taking Control

• Non-GMO Project Is Officially Launched
• Patents on Taro Hybrids Protested
• GMOs Are Unconstitutional
• Mali Farmers Reject GM Crops as Attack on Their Way of Life
• Biotech "Revolution" May Be Losing Steam
• Biotech Fears Are Growing
• Groups Challenge USDA Approval of First Perennial Gene Altered Crop
• Farmers, Others Sue USDA over Monsanto GMO Alfalfa
• Europe Rejects Genetically Engineered Drug
• Cotton Farmers Sue Monsanto, Others, for Crop Loss
• [HI] Bills Limit Taro, Coffee Testing
• Waldo County Town Votes to Ban GMOs
• County Eyes Ban on Genetically Engineered Crops [Santa Cruz]
• How the Flood of GM Goods Was Driven Off The Shelves
• A Matter of Ethics
• Efforts to Take GMO Control Blocked
• Law to Label GM Foods Gazetted in Sri Lanka
• California Senate Preserves Local Rules on Genetically Engineered Crops
• Tell USDA NOT to Approve Illegal GE Rice!
• Vermont Ag Secretary Backs Milk Hormone Ban
• Beginning of the End for rBST

Terminator

• UN Meeting Undermines Moratorium on Terminator: Goal to Approve Terminator is Now Clear
• Monsanto May Commercialize Terminator
• UK Ministers Back 'Terminator' GM Crops
• Controversy Sparked on Sterile GM Seeds
• Biotech Foods: David Versus Goliath
• Don't Sell "Suicide Seeds", Activists Warn In Curitiba
• Terminator Seeds Suffer Defeat at Global Biodiversity Conference
• Take Action to Stop Terminator Seeds Demands WCC General Secretary

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