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• Dairies Ahead to Dump GM? -  Truth About Trade and Technology 16dec04
• "Fuel for Nought" The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster -  The Guardian Weekly (UK) 8dec04
• White House Can't Explain Lurking Trade Imbalance -  Peoria Journal Star 7dec04
• Also see: The Loss of Corn Exports to Europe: Something to chew on at the Commodity Classic
• Hello Mike: Nebraska Governor Nominated to be Ag Secretary - Delta Farm Press 2dec04
  • Governors Biotechnology Partnership - Governor Mike Johanns, Chairman
• The Corporate Attack on Organic Agriculture -  Cornucopia Institute 24nov04
• Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Nine Years - (Executive Summary) Charles Benbrook / BioTech InfoNet 25oct04
• World Food Day in Iraq: Iraqi Farmers Aren't Celebrating - Press Release / GRAIN 15oct04
• Iraq's New Patent Law: A Declaration of War Against Farmers - Press Release / Focus on the Global South and GRAIN 15oct04
  • Iraq: Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 81: Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law  - CPA (Iraq) 26apr04
• Bee Decline May Spell End of Some Fruits, Vegetables - National Geographic News 5oct04
• The Green Machine: Corporate Monoculture Farming - The Monthly (Emeryville, CA) 1oct04
• India: Alternative Strategies for India’s Development: Agriculture, Food Security and Hunger - Devinder Sharma (India) 1aug2004
• WTO Farm Pact Wouldn't Be Panacea  - Wall Street Journal 29jul04
• Study Confirms Safety of Organic Food But Agrochemical Front Group Attempts to Twist Findings - Press Release / Cornucopia Institute 15jun04
  • Preharvest Evaluation of Coliforms, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Organic and Conventional Produce Grown by Minnesota Farmers - J. of Food Protection 1may04
• India: Government’s Change: But No Respite from Farmers Suicides - Devinder Sharma (India) / Mindfully.org 3jun04
• What Makes Percy Schmeiser So Persistent? - Interview by Paul Goettlich / Mindfully.org 27may04
• National Organic Standards: USDA Secretary Veneman Pulls Organic Food Directives But Major Program Reform Still Needed - Press Release / Cornucopia Institute 26may04
• FuturaGene: Gene Firm Pioneers Desert Crops -  The Guardian (UK) 21may04
• Gene Revolution: Great Potential for the Poor, but No Panacea - FAO Press Release (with commentary by Devinder Sharma) 17may04
• Livestock Industry Finds Friends in EPA: Documents detail lobbyists' impact on air-quality plan -  Chicago Tribune 16may04
• Norway Likes Our Wheat . . . but says NO GMO WHEAT! - St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) 30apr04
• Agricultural Research: CGIAR Turns to Outsourcing - Devinder Sharma  (India) 26apr04
• ID System for Cattle May Carry Large Tab -  Des Moines Register 25apr04
• Agriculture's Bullied Market -  Prairie Writers Circle 16apr04
• Silent Winter? Biopharmed crops are turning wildlife—and us—into lab animals  - World Watch magazine 1may04
• WTO and Agriculture: Green Box Subsidies Must Go  -  Devinder Sharma (India) 21apr04
• Mad Cow: U.S. Won't Let Company Test All Its Cattle for Mad Cow -  NY Times 10apr04
• Ventria's Pharm-Rice: California Rice Commission Approves Genetically Engineered Rice - Press Release 29mar04
• Japanese Group Against Biotech Wheat - AP 27mar04
• In Florida Groves, Cheap Labor Means Machines -  NY Times 22mar04
• Antibiotics: Judge Upholds Ban On Chicken Antibiotic -  Washington Post 17mar04
• Keeping Seeds Safe - Editorial / NY Times 1mar04
• Bt Corn Causes Fevers, Respiratory Illnesses and Skin Reactions: Scientists Suspect Health Threat from GM Maize -  The Guardian (UK) 27feb04
• Mad Cow: USDA Accused of Misleading Public on Mad Cow - Washington Post 18feb04
• Observations on the Supreme Court hearing of Percy Schmeiser - E Ann Clark Ph.D. / Cropchoice 2feb04
• Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq - Harper's Magazine 1feb04
• Biotech Industry Gives Record $150,000 to Fight Proposed Altered-Crop Ban in Mendocino County, California -  The Press Democrat 31jan04
• Organic Rules: Arthur Harvey v. Ann Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture - United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit / Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine no. 04-1379 26jan2005
• 19 Tons of of U.S. Chicken Seized by Ukrainian Customs - AP 26jan04
• India: Scientists Predict Record Output Of Maize, Wheat Crop This Year -  The Financial Express (New Delhi) 25jan04
• Percy Schmeiser: Unlikely Hero: Canadian Farmer Stands Up Against Monsanto in Biotech Battle -  Sacramento Bee 19jan04
• Percy Schmeiser's Future is Our Future - Vandana Shiva / The Council of Canadians 19jan04
• Iowa Farmers Adapt to Survive: Conventional farming is a thing of the past—go organic! - Chicago Tribune 19jan04
• US Meat Producers Move to Head Off Push for Mandatory Labelling -  Financial Times (UK) 17jan04
• Roundup Ready Wheat = More Pesticides: Genetically Engineered Wheat may lead to More Use of Chemicals -  Canadian Press 12jan04
• EPA Refuses to Ban Sewage Sludge as Fertilizer -  Louisville Courier-Journal (Kentucky) 11jan04
• Saskatchewan Organic Farmers File Lawsuit Against Monsanto and Aventis - The Canadian Press 10jan04
• Arsenic: Chicken Feed Effects Questioned: Researchers study health, environmental impact from use of arsenic -  Daily Times (Maryland) 4jan04
• Sewage Sludge: EPA to Study Use of Waste From Sewage as Fertilizer -  NY Times 3jan04
• Mad-Cow Testing on Trial: Should U.S. Start to Screen Every Last Cow, as in Japan? 'A Negligible Cost Increase' -  Wall Street Journal 2jan04
• Bull Market for Organic Beef: Mad Cow Scare Raises Awareness -  Washington Post 1jan03