Corporate Ties

• UC's Biotech-biofuel Benefactors: The Power of Big Finance and Bad Ideas

Exposing Biotech

• Alien Invasion!
• Seeding Starvation in Iraq
• GM Crops Still Not Performing
• Global GM Crop Report a PR Beat Up
• Sick People Used Like Laboratory Rats in GM Trials
• US Still Bullying EU to Market GMOs
• Scientists Create New Crop of Genetically Modified Crops
• Questions of Fraud Raised by GMO-contaminated Shipment of Organic Soybeans
• The High Cost of Opening the Door to GM Crops
• Farmyard Truths and Industry Lies
• How a Well-known Scientific Journal "Set Up" an Honest Scientist
• Against the Grain: 'Economics, Not Common Sense, Drives GM Crops'
• Attack of Syngenta's Armed Militia Results in Dead and Wounded in Brazil
• An FDA-Created Health Crisis Circles the Globe
• GMO Products as a Condition for Ukraine to Enter WTO
• GM: The Secret Files
• Biowatch Court Ruling: Gross Miscarriage of Environmental Justice
• The Excommunication of a Heretic
• Genetically Modified Seeds Raise Contamination Fears

Global South

• Growing Pains of India's GM Revolution
• RP Reviews Bayer's GMO Rice Bid
• GM Crops Cause 'Breakdown' in Indian Farming Systems
• Farmers Against Patenting of Seeds
• S. Korean Gov't Orders Labelling of All GMO Products from Late June
• S[upreme] C[ourt] Allows Field Trials of GM Crops
• Monsanto Warns It May Withdraw from Wheat-seed Market
• Annan Rules Out Use of GMOs in the War on Hunger in Africa
• Tortilla-hungry Mexico Setting Rules on GMO Corn
• GM Pollution in Brazil
• Paraguay: The Dark Side of the Soy Boom

GMOs and Bees

• Could Genetically Modified Crops Be Killing Bees?
• Collapsing Colonies: Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
• Give Bees a Chance

GMO Rice

• Rice Recalled Over Gene Contamination
• More Biotech Woes for U.S. Rice
• Rice Industry Troubled by Genetic Contamination
• Rice Board Spurns Biotech
• GE Contaminated Rice Turns up in Mexican Markets
• USDA Identifies Rice in Latest GM Contamination
• Importers Question Purity of U.S. Crops
• Biotech Rice Pact Reached
• GM Rice - Proposed Class Action
• Attack of the Mutant Rice
• Industry Tries to Purge Rice Strains
• German Company Sues U.S. Rice Millers Over Modified Rice
• Rice Farmer Claims Research Contaminated Crop
• Court Halts Introduction of GM Rice in the Philippines
• USDA Report: Rice Tainting a Mystery
• GM Rice Cost Industry $1.2B

In the Field

• Corn Pest Expansion Consequence of Transgenic Crops?
• GE Crops Slow to Gain Global Acceptance
• Debate Rages Over Genetically Modified Crops
• The End of Farm-saved Seed? Industry's Wish List for the Next Revision of UPOV
• Mystery Fungus Hits Bt Cotton
• Biotech Beets Gaining Approval
• Argentina Pampas Crops Threatened By Herbicide-Resistant Weed
• Round 2 for Biotech Beets

Legal & Government

• Federal Court Orders for the First Time a Halt to New Field Trials of Genetically Engineered Crops
• U.S. Agency Violated Law in Seed Case, Judge Rules
• Federal Court Finds USDA Erred in Approving Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Without Full Environmental Review
• USDA Criticized by 2nd Judge over Genetic Crops
• U.S. Courts Say Transgenic Crops Need Tighter Scrutiny
• Monsanto Biotech Alfalfa Lawsuit Ratchets Up
• Key Monsanto Patent Rejected
• Federal Judge Orders First-Ever Moratorium On Sale Of Genetically Altered Seed
• Judge Mulls Making Alfalfa Ban Permanent
• Judge Prohibits Planting of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
• Federal Judge Orders First-Ever Halt to Planting of a Commercialized Genetically-Altered Crop
• Center for Food Safety Opposes Proposal in Farm Bill to Bar State Prohibitions on Gene-Altered Foods
• Farm Bill May Ease Modified Crop Ban
• Congress May End Ban on Genetically Modified Crops
• Monsanto Appeals Roundup Ready Alfalfa Ruling
• Banned Strain of Alfalfa Planted in 43 Michigan Counties
• Organic Farmers Seek Supreme Court Hearing
• Scotts to Pay $500,000 Fine over Biotech Bentgrass
• Sask. Organic Group's GMO Suit Shut Down

Monsanto

• Monsanto Merger Sows Fears over Skewed Seed Market
• Planned Merger Angers Black Farmers
• Black Farmers Call for Boycott of Monsanto Products
• European Patent Office Revokes Monsanto's Species Patent on Genetically Engineered Soy Beans
• Monsanto Violated Patents, ISU Says
• Group Condemns Dept. of Justice Approval of Monsanto - Delta and Pine Land Merger
• Monsanto Tells Pack of Lies in South Africa
• Monsanto Loses Claims for Roundup Ready Genes
• Napa Investment Firm Goes After Monsanto
• Keep Monsanto Out of Our Milk
• Seed Controversy Sprouts

Other GMOs

• Extreme Genetic Engineering
• Biotech Dairy Debate Spills Across U.S. Markets
• Synthetic Biology -- Genetic Engineering On Steroids
• Woodstock Revisited (Frankentreethanol)
• Brazil Will Permit Planting of Transgenic Trees
• Baldwin Site Of Eucalyptus Experiment
• Hybrid Embryos Get Go-ahead
• WHA Agrees on "Major Review" of Smallpox Virus Research
• Potential Link Between Pathogenic Fungus and Introduced Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
• Synthia's Last Hurdle?
• Plague of Bioweapons Accidents Afflicts the US
• Gene Therapy Safety in Question Again
• Super Trees: The Latest in Genetic Engineering
• Frankenforests: GE Trees Threaten Ecosystem Collapse
• Woman's Death Calls Gene Therapy into Question
• We're One Step Closer to Creating Genetically Enhanced Humans
• Warning Is Sent to AIDS Vaccine Volunteers
• Crops That Shut Down Pests' Genes

Pharming

• USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes
• USDA OKs Plan to Grow Modified Rice
• Plan to Plant Gene-Modified Rice Alarms Interest Groups
• How to Confine the Plants of the Future?
• Down on the Pharm
• U.S. Approves GMO Rice to Produce Human Proteins
• Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals and Plant-Made Industrial Compounds: GMA/FPA Position Paper

Regulatory

• Someone (Other Than You) May Own Your Genes
• Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation
• New Attack on GM Food Safety Testing Standards
• Ex-FDA Chief Crawford Faces Sentencing
• EFSA to Review Monsanto Maize Concerns
• Malaysia-U.S. Stand-Off Over GMOs in Free Trade Talks
• Greenpeace Says it Found Illegal GM Corn in U.S. Shipment to EU
• U.S. to Mull Changes to Oversight of Biotech Crops
• Maine Last State to Allow Genetically Altered Corn
• Without U.S. Rules, Biotech Food Lacks Investors
• Genetically Modified Corn - Next step: Do no harm
• GM Crops Get Go-ahead
• FTC Says Milk Ads Are OK
• France Moves Towards a Freeze on Growing GM Crops
• Consumers Won't Know What They're Missing
• Proposed Ban on Genetically Modified Corn in Europe
• EU Decision on GMO Testing Opens Door for U.S. Rice
• Both Sides Cite Science to Address Altered Corn

Scientists Speak

• Food From Cloned Animals: These Products Should Remain in the Lab
• GM Potato Controversy
• Largest Pet Food Recall Ever
• Keeping an Eye on Transgenic Crops
• GM Contamination at 21 km and Farther
• Doctors Should Highlight Risks of GM Food
• Dangerous Field Test of Non-pathogenic GM Bacteria
• Scientist Who Claimed GM Crops Could Solve Third World Hunger Admits He Got It Wrong

Science

• Strong Suspicions of Toxicity in One GMO Corn
• Revealed: Why Monsanto Suppressed GM Maize Feeding Study
• Genetically Engineered Foods May Cause Rising Food Allergies (1)
• Genetically Engineered Foods May Cause Rising Food Allergies (2)
• Change to Gene Theory Raises New Challenges for Biotech
• Toxins and Reproductive Failures

Scientific Studies

• Suppressed Report Shows Cancer Link to GM Potatoes
• The First Independent Study of Genetically Engineered LibertyLink Rice
• A Serious Concern : Authorized GM Maize Is Unfit For Consumption
• Russian Researchers Present New Data on Negative Influence of GMO on Human Health
• How Much Bt Toxin Do Genetically Engineered MON810 Maize Plants Actually Produce?
• Effects of the Herbicide Roundup on Human Embryonic Cells
• Trials 'Underestimate GM Crop Risk'
• Study Shows Genetically Engineered Corn Could Affect Aquatic Ecosystems
• Genetically Engineered Corn May Harm Stream Ecosystems
• Do Escaped Transgenes Persist in Nature?
• Low-Dose Exposure and Immunogenicity of Transgenic Maize!

Taking Control

• Declaration of Seed Sovereignty
• Leading Advocates Against Genetically Modified RBGH Milk File Citizen's Petition With FDA
• Bill Would Hold Makers Of Engineered Crops Liable For Damage
• States Introduce Numerous Bills to Regulate Genetically Modified Foods
• Groups Laud Florida's Ban on Non-Native and Genetically Altered Fish for Open Water Aquaculture
• New Statute Protects the DNA of Wild Rice
• Monsanto Tells Pack of Lies in South Africa
• Italian Campaign Plans Mass "Vote" Against GM Food
• Genetically Altered Food: Labels Hotly Debated in Iowa
• Time for a Fresh Start on GM
• Three Million People "Vote" to Make Italy GM-free
• PA Dairy Label Rule Shelved

Terminator

• Bill to Ban Terminator Introduced in Canada

Texas News

• Bird Flu Accident at University of Texas at Austin
• Biodefense Blackout
• Texas A&M Safety Manager Quits on the Day of Critical CDC Report

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