'New Breeding Techniques' the next step in corporate control over our food?Originally published by Corporate Europe Observatory The biotech industry is staging an audacious bid to have a whole new generation of genetic engineering techniques excluded from European regulations. The pending decision of the European Commission on … [Read more...] about Biotech lobby’s push for new GMOs to escape regulation
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GM food being pushed by pro corporate scientists in India
Science Academies in India lobby to push GM crops in India By Devinder Sharma at Sep 27, 2010 Change Text Size a- | A+ I still can't overcome my disbelief. Such 'distinguished' scientific bodies from India, and such a shoddy report. I have always said there is good science, there is bad science but this report transgresses all earlier known brackets, … [Read more...] about GM food being pushed by pro corporate scientists in India
GM Maize ‘Has Polluted Rivers Across the United States’
by Steve Connor, Science Editor of The IndependentThis story does not necessarily reflect the views of TokyoProgressive An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment.Activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically … [Read more...] about GM Maize ‘Has Polluted Rivers Across the United States’
Monsanto CEO Voted Country’s Biggest ‘Biofool’
WASHINGTON - April 23 - Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant has been named the country’s biggest “biofool” after online voting in an April Fools Day competition sponsored by Friends of the Earth and the Rainforest Action Network came to a close yesterday. “It was a landslide. Nearly one third of all voters chose Grant,” said Kate McMahon of Friends of the Earth. “This result stresses … [Read more...] about Monsanto CEO Voted Country’s Biggest ‘Biofool’