Genetic Engineering 
2000

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Mindfully.org note: We consider all genetic engineering—plant, animal, or pharmaceutical—unsafe. Humans are not capable of understanding the complexity of life at any meaningful level. Corporate genetic engineering is less than sophomoric--much like reaching into a giant high-voltage electrical junction box while blind folded and standing barefoot in a puddle of salt water.          While the rest of the world destroys GMO crops in the fields, they cry out to the US to join them.          But US citizens are kept in the dark by corporately-owned media which scrubs all news of relevant details.          It was suggested to one over-worked environmentalist that she should "really, just get a good hobby and forget about all this trouble, and that it's no good for ones health to think about such awful news constantly."          So..... here's a suggestion for a great hobby to take your mind off of this troubled world. Let's all do some nighttime gardening, and put on a happy face. It's high time we did just that, don't you think. So be creative, and have fun at the same time.  :-)

• Will GMOs Feed the World?    Paul Goettlich / Mindfully.org Rev.4mar02

• Africa: Traditional Knowledge: Recognition and Protection - DR. MWANANYANDA MBIKUSITA LEWANIKA 30jul01

• 2003 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY/STEWARDSHIP AGREEMENT (Limited Use License)

• More on Monsanto and its Products

• Tomorrow's Biodiversity  - Vandana Shiva / Thames & Hudson 2000

• Beyond Substantial Equivalence: Ethical Equivalence  - Sylvie Pouteau / Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 13: 273-291, 2000

• Clone Scientists Can Grow Sperm in Laboratory  -  Sunday Times (London) 31dec00

• Biotechnology Companies Try to Ward Off Generic Drugs - NYT 28dec00

• One Man's Meat - Animal Xenotransplants - Alix Fano / The Ecologist Dec00/Jan01

• Uptake and translocation of 14'C-glyphosate in glyphosate-resistant cotton - Abstract - Harris, Vencill - UofGA

• Plant DNA in Farm Animals: Cattle and Chicken Fed Recombinant Plants  - Eur.Fd.Res.Tech. 2000

• Maryland Biotech Industry Matures -  Washington Post 28dec00

• StarLink Found in Japanese Beer - Whitley's World 27dec00

• StarLink USDA Advisory Letter sent to Seed Companies  -  USDA 27dec00

• Sampling and Testing Recommendations for the Detection of Cry9C Protein in Hybrid Seed Corn  - GIPSA of USDA Dec00

• USDA Calls for Testing Seed Corn for Presence of StarLink (Cry9C Protein)  - American Seed Trade Association Dec00

• Peter Schultz Tinkering with Nature  -  US News and World Report 25dec00

• A Boon for Biotech - Washtech.com 25dec00

• Biotech 2000 Review --  Glowing Bunnies and Tainted Tacos - Abate / SFC 25dec00

• Christian Burks - Slicing and Dicing the Facts of Life - US New and World Report 25dec00

• More Science And Labeling Needed For GMO Products  - Healthwell 22dec00

• Ann Veneman Named USDA Secretary Emphasizes "Free Trade" and Genetic Engineering - Agribusiness Examiner 21dec00

• 1,000,000 Farmers Protest in Italy - French Demonstrators Oppose US GE Crops - Agribusiness Examiner 21dec00

• At least one major firm won't be selling seeds unless they're approved by the EU - Christian Science Monitor 21dec00

• Ann Veneman,  First Woman Slated To Head USDA -  DJNW 20dec00

• Junk Science, Corporate Ideology, and Genetically Modified Food: An Interview with Ann Clark  -  Monkeyfist 19dec00

• What's Next for Biotech Crops? Questions -  NYT 19dec00

• Gene-Altered Food Needs Labels, Safety Reviews, Committee Says -  WSJ 19dec00

• James Watson Nobel Winner's Views Resonate With Readers - SFC 18dec00

• San Francisco Board Passes Genetically Engineered Foods Resolution -  Organic Consumers Association 18dec00

• US-EU panel recommends labeling, tighter controls on biotech food - AP 18dec00

• Scientists Concede Nobody Knows GM Risks  -  London Independent 16dec00

• EU preparing new rules for GM food labeling - Reuters 15dec00

• The Cartagena protocol on diversity - Guardian UK 15dec00

• The Arabidopsis Genome: Green genes -  The Economist 14dec00

• 39 Million Hectares of GMOs Planted but NO USEFUL  STUDIES YET  - NYT 14dec00

• First Complete Plant Genetic Sequence Is Determined -  NYT 14dec00

• StarLink  Confirmed as Probable Health Risk - Whitley's World 14dec00

• Scientists Decode Plant Genome Insights should prompt development of 'greener' disease-resistant crops - LAT 14dec00

• Looking for Gold in the Double Helix  - Washington Post 13dec00

• Gardenburger Announces Non-GMO Soy -- Decision Prompted by Consumer Preference - PRN 13dec00

• Biotech Calendar of Calamities - 2000  - RAFI 13dec00

• Monsanto Threatens Argentina - GM policy endangers investment -  - Reuters 13dec00

• Monsanto  Seeks Development of  'Golden Mustard'  - EarthVision 12dec00

• Biotech Wheat Goes Under the Microscope - Oregonian 11dec00

• Oregon Potato Growers Turn Backs on Monsanto's GE NewLeaf Potatoes - The Oregonian 11dec00

• James Watson's ideas on Obesity, Race, Sex strikes chord with many -  SFC 11dec00

• StarLink Changes Dynamics of Grain Industry - StarLink  - NYT 11dec00

• Debating the Food Debate - The Scientist 11dec00

• Canada's Farmers Call for Moratorium on GE Food & Crops - National Farmers Union Canada 10dec00

• StarLink Discovery Ruins Farmers' 150,000 Bushel Sale - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 10dec00

• StarLink Study Finds Potential to Cause Food Allergies  -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 10dec00

• Roundup Ready Beans and Herbicide - Charles Benbrook 10dec00

• NGOs Campaign Against Basmati Patents -  Third World Network 9dec00

• StarLink Holding up Cheeto Supplies, Frito-Lay Says - Dallas Morning News 9dec00

• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Calls on State Attorneys General To Investigate StarLink Corn Disaster  - IATP 9nov00

• Sir Cyril Clarke KBE, FRCP, FRS, medical geneticist Dies 22nov00 -  London Times 8dec00

• German safety expert sees permanent EU feed ban - Reuters 8dec00

• Canadian List of GM-Free Foods Issued - Toronto Star 8dec00 (The List)

• Terminator Recombinase Does Scramble Genomes - Institute of Science in Society 8dec00 

• Australian GMO skeptics slam passing of law -  AAP 8dec00

• Biotech's Foes Are Taken Seriously Now - Progressive Farmer 8dec00

• EU's Need for Alternate Cattle Feed Could Solve Global Soybean Glut -  WSJ 8dec00

• Reject Gene Altered Corn -  Editorial USA Today 7dec00

• How World Food Resources are Threatened by Seed Patents -  Guardian  6dec00

• Federal Panel Is Wary of Gene-Altered Corn -  NYT 6dec00

• Deepening of the Agricultural Divide Farm Belt Fights Northeast-Backed Label -  Boston Globe 6dec00

• US panel unconvinced of StarLink bio-corn safety - Reuters 5dec00

• Scientific Doubts About GM Corn  - BBC 5dec00 

• GM crop pullers positive motives convicted - Report from Durham by Rowan Tilly 5dec00

• National Farmers Union, Canadian farm group calls for moratorium on GM foods - Reuters 5dec00

• Gene Altered Foods: A Case Against Panic  - Jane Brody /  NYT 5dec00

• StarLink Corn: Farmers Sue Aventis Over StarLink Corn Debacle: Negligence Suit Is Filed Over Altered Corn -  New York Times 4dec00

• AMA Calls GMOs "Quite Safe" - Orlando Sentinel 4dec00

• Anti-GMOs 'Food Without Poison' Caravan  -  Manila Times 4dec00

• Greenpeace Protest Against Genetically Engineered Soya Imports - WorldNews.com 4dec00

• Farmer to Farmer Campaign calls on state Attorneys General to learn from Starlink debacle  - In Motion Magazine 3dec00

• Untested GM food given to Indian cyclone victims -- Scientist -  Press Trust of India 3dec00

• It's a Long Road from Promising Discovery to Marketable Drug - Financial Post Canada  2dec00

• Soaring Seafood Demand Sparked Huge Aquaculture Expansion - Worries Over Growth Hormones - Financial Times 2dec00

• Questions and Answers about Transgenic Fish  - FDA 1dec00

• Assessment of Scientific Information Concerning StarLink Corn. - SAP Report 1dec00

• US Senator Dick Durbin Review of EPA Documents Shows Knowledge of Biotech Contamination in 1998 -  Press Release 1dec00

• Contrite Monsanto pledges to turn over a new leaf - Guardian 1dec00

• ARS Releases New Sweet Potato - Charles Benbrook 1dec00

• USDA Scientists Count Milkweed in Iowa Cornfields - AP 1dec00

• Recalled corn products still on shelves -  Boston Herald 30nov00

• StarLink meets with Attorneys General of 5 States -  AP 30nov00

• USDA rethinking StarLink Impact -  Sparks Companies 30nov00

• USDA To Improve Biotech Standards - AP 29nov00

• Anti-GMOs Press Campaign  -  Manila Times 29nov01

• Ramifications of Controversy Surrounding StarLink Corn - National Public Radio Morning Edition 29nov00

• StarLink Corn Sickens 44 People - Reuters 29nov00

• StarLink Causing Storage Delays at Indiana Grain Elevators - Times 29nov00

• Dr. Michael Hansen's StarLink Testimony to EPA  - 28nov00

• Dr. John Hagelin Stuns EPA with Stirring "StarLink" Testimony Providence Journal 9nov00 & Hagelin News 28nov00 

• Companies Seek Looser Rules on Labeling Genetically Altered Seed - NYT 28nov00

• Monsanto To Restrict StarLink Corn Sales - Delay Two Varieties - AP 28nov00

• Anti-Xenotransplantation Coalition Files Lawsuit Against FDA -  CRT News Release 27nov00

• Monsanto Makes Pledge - NYT 27nov00

• Monsanto Takes The Offensive In Addressing Biotechnology - DJN 27nov00

• Monsanto's Latest Shtick: The Company Next Door? ..... NOT ! - Monsanto Website 27nov00

• Congress Funds Biotech Research for Humanitarian Aid - AP 25nov00

• Germany Favors Ban on Patenting Engineered Genes and Genetic Sequences - Handelsblatt 24nov00

• Consumers, Industry At Odds Over Benefits Of Bio-Sugar - DJN 22nov00

• Consumer Views and Regulations Around the World - AGB 318 CaPoly 21nov00 

• Golden Rice in a Grenade-Proof Greenhouse - SCIENTIST AT WORK - Ingo Potrykus - NYT 21nov00

• Biotech protein found in seed - StarLink pollinated another Variety? - AP 21nov00

• Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties Derived through Recombinant DNA Technology - Final Consultations under FDA's 1992 Policy

• Some Grain Companies Dissuade Farmers From Using Biotech Seed - WSJ 20nov00

• U.S. Army Stockpiling Vaccines To Combat Risk of Bio-Terrorism - Boston Globe 20nov00

• Czech Republic Law Helps Digene -  Washington Post 17nov00

• Activists Dump 2 Tons of StarLink Corn at Door of San Francisco EPA - AP 17nov00

• UK's Blair Backs Biotech Indus, Urges Clear Communication - DJN 17nov00

• McDonald's Britain Asking Suppliers to find Non-GE Animal Feed - Reuters 16nov00

• Contaminated Corn Dumped on EPA - Simon Harris - Consumers Association 16nov00

• StarLink Scare Causes Japan To Cut Corn Purchases in Half - WSJ 16nov00

• Japan Says Imported US Feed Samples 0.5% GMO Corn -Kyodo - DJN 16nov00

• Genetic Worries Hurt U.S. Corn Sales Abroad - Illegal Starlink Corn - Bloomberg 16nov00

• Biopirates who seek the greatest prizes - Guardian UK 15nov00

• The Top Patenters in Food - Guardian UK 15nov00

• 16 States Attorneys General seek higher compensation in genetically modified corn dispute - AP 15nov00

• First genetically screened baby born in France - AP15nov00

• Rockefeller Foundation's Justification of Golden Rice - 14nov00

• EPA unconvinced on StarLink bio-corn safety -  Reuters 14nov00

• State of Texas Bill to Regulate Cloning of Human Beings 77(R) SB 102  -  Senator Jane Nelson: District 9 13nov00

• Korea recalls tortillas suspected to have unapproved corn -  AP 13nov00

• EPA says risk of eating unapproved corn `extremely low' - AP 13nov00

• James Watson Advances Racist, Sexist Thesis During Guest Lecture at UC Berkeley  - SFC 13nov00

• Chiron's Plight a Good Lesson in Perils of Trying to Curb Drug Prices  - SFC 13nov00

• CALIFORNIA AT THE CROSSROADS: The Impacts of Genetic Engineering on California's Agriculture - Dr. Doreen Stabinsky Nov00

• Dolly Out, Human Genome In... Under the heading Scary Science - The Scientist 13nov00

• "Under the heading 'scary science,' Dolly was out, and the human genome project in. -  The Scientist 13nov00

• Gene-altered cotton: The fabric of our future -  Bloomberg 12nov00

• EU proposes farmer liability for GMO hazards - Friends of the Earth 12nov00

• Aventis Says Cost of StarLink Recall Will Be Lower Than Original Reports - Wall Street Journal 9nov00

• The Economics of Within-Field Bt Corn Refuges - AgBioForum Winter 2000

• Negative Labeling Of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): The Experience Of rBST - AgBioForum Winter 2000

• The Concept Of Natural: Implications For Biotechnology Regulation - AgBioForum Winter 2000

• Affymetrix Found to Have Infringed Patent - Gene Chips - NYT 11nov00

• Bring Back the Dodo! Brave New Strides in Animal Cloning or the Island of Dr. Moreau - Time 11nov00

• Institute Calls on State AGs To Investigate StarLink Corn Disaster -  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 9nov00

• Aventis Says Cost of StarLink Recall Will Be Lower Than Original Reports - Wall Street Journal 9nov00

• Battle over gene-altered foods set to escalate -  BG 8nov00

• British Scientists Urge Acceptance Of Research Using Human Embryos - AP 8nov00

• Bio-technology India 2000 to showcase breakthrough - Times of India 8nov00

• Bioengineered Corn Found in European Food - NYT 7nov00

• Asian NGOs and Farmers Groups Oppose Genetically Engineered Rice - KMP 6nov00

• Euro Biotechs Seeks US Listing - Reuters 6nov00

• Malaria Vaccine Being Made In Milk of Mice -  SFC 6nov00

• Biotech in Massachusetts Catching Up to Bay Area -  SFC 6nov00

• Current Research Projects at the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research -  Tuskegee University 6nov00

• Idea Workshop Aims to Transform Academia Into Usable Technology -  DJN 6nov00

• Americans say stop planting gene-altered crops -  Reuters 6nov00

• Promising Way to Repair Brain Less controversial, more plentiful source of stem cells reported - SFC 6nov00

• Biotech Execs Chafing at Prospect of Gore Presidency: Attack on drug prices makes Bush favorable -  SFC 6nov00

• Biotech Companies Face Potential Manufacturing-Capacity Squeeze - Bloomberg 5nov00

• StarLink Parent has Colorful History -  Register Business Writer 5nov00

• Illegal Biotech Corn Found In UK Tortilla Chips - Friends of the Earth - AP 5nov00

• Biotechnology Concerns in Quandary Over Drug Giants - NYT 4nov00

• University of PA Settles Suit on Genetic Test - AP 4nov00

• U.S. to Test Japan-Bound Corn For Presence of StarLink Grain  - AP 3nov00

• Natural Law Party: Halt Introduction of GM Food Support Natural, Healthy Alternatives  - Natural Law Party, London 3nov00

• Corn-Recall Cost Could Reach Into the Hundreds of Millions - WSJ 3nov00

• Gene transfer from corn to chicken - Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jahreis / Institut für Ernährungswissenschaften der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 3nov00

• Corn recall reaches stores, restaurants across country - AP 3nov00

• Corn-Recall Cost Could Reach Into the Hundreds of Millions  -  Wall Street  Journal 3nov00

• Turning Genes On and Off  - Science Magazine 3nov00

• Swiss to ban all animal meal in feeds on BSE fears - Reuters 3nov00

• Wilson Foods Recalls Tortillas Containing Unapproved Corn  - AP 3nov00

• Fabrazyme To Bypass FDA Panel Review -  DJN 2nov00

• Biotech-Corn Problems Lead to Recall Of 300 Products, Disrupt Farm Belt -WSJ 2nov00

• Biotech Firm Seeks to Separate The Coqs From the Coquettes Gender Sorting Device - WSJ 2nov00

• Sowing the Seeds Of Gastro-Activism  - WSJ 2nov00

• Monsanto: Fraudulent Conclusion Facts Found by Inspection of the Safety Assessment of GM Roundup Tolerant Soybean - Technology and Man magazine1nov00

• Immune Response Corp. Sues UCSF For Telling the Truth About Research Paid for by Immune Response - SFC 1nov00

• California leads nation in biotech crop research -  AP 1nov00

• JURASSIC FOODS? The food industry in a post-StarLink world - Industry PR  Nov00

• Removal of antibiotic resistance genes from transgenic tobacco plastids - Nature Biotechnology Nov00 

• Streptogramin-based gene regulation systems for mammalian cells - Nature Biotechnology Nov00 

• Production of hepatitis B surface antigen in transgenic plants for oral immunization - Nature Biotechnology Nov00

• Transgenic plants as factories for biopharmaceuticals - Nature Biotechnology Nov00

• Immunoprophylaxis in fish by injection of mouse antibody genes - Nature Biotechnology Nov00

• StarLink: More Bad News for Biotech, News & Analysis on Genetic Engineering, Factory Farming, & Organics - BioDemocracy News Nov00

• Today, Genetically Modified Food. Tomorrow, Genetically Modified Humans? - Exploratory Initiative on the New Human Genetic Technologies Nov00

• Precautionary Approaches to the Appraisal of Risk: A Case Study of a Genetically Modified Crop - IJOEH Oct/Dec00

• Do We Really Need Genetically Engineered Food?  - Peter Rosset Ph.D. / Food First Fall00

• Genetically Engineered Crops Skyrocketed from 1992 to 1999 Graph  - CALPIRG Fall00

• Philosophy Confronts Issues Raised by Technology, Genetics - WP 31oct00

• California Court To Consider Mycogen/Monsanto Case - DJN 31oct00

• Weird Science: The Brave New World of Genetic Engineering - USPIRG & PANNA 31oct00

• Making Mars Ours: Dreamers and doers meet at NASA conference on colonizing the Red Planet -  SFC 30oct00

• Scientists close to deciphering Y chromosome  - AP 30oct00

• Genetic Responses to Drought Plant scientists research how plants deal with stress - The Scientist 30oct00

•  Fetal Origins of Adult Disease ASHG session focuses on epidemiological and experimental evidence -  The Scientist 30oct00

• GM Food Debate Gets Spicy Recalled taco shells with engineered corn fuel controversy - The Scientist 30oct00

• Not Just for Pharmaceutical Firms Anymore: Explosive Growth in Variety of Fields - SFC 30oct00

• EPA pledges "rigorous" review of biotech corn approval - AP 30oct00

• Biotechnology Not Just Pharmaceutical Anymore: Explosive Growth in Variety of Fields - SFC 30oct00

• Biomedical Research Goes Where Candidates Dare Not -  Washington Post 29oct00

• GM 'Solution' to Over-Fishing - BBC 29sep00

• Some farmers profit from corn recall - AP 28oct00

• US Lifts Restrictions On Export Of Starlink Corn  - Dow Jones Newswires 27oct00

• Federal Officials Blame Aventis For Biotech Corn Found in Food - WSJ 27oct00

• Biotechnology Boom Strains US patent office - Reuters 27oct00

• Gore and Bush Stand-Ins Court the Biotech Crowd - SFC 26oct00

• White House Calls Meeting on Bio-Corn Concerns - Reuters 26oct00

• Schmeiser receives Mahatma Gandhi Award  - Prairie Messenger 25oct00

• US Foodmakers to Offer New Evidence of Biocorn Safety - Reuters 25oct00

• Japan consumer group says finds StarLink corn -  Reuters 25oct00

• Aventis says Needs 4 Years to Clear Out StarLink Corn - Reuters 25oct00

• Food and Fear: GM food debate escalates in US: Promar study prepares companies for storms to follow  - Press Release 24oct00

• Int Conf. on Biotech in Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle - Harvard Center of Int. Dev. 22-23sep00

• The 'Golden Rice' Tale - Ingo Potrykus  23oct00

• Reykjavik-based deCode Genetics has combined the health records of every Icelander, living or dead - SFC 23oct00

• Biotech Corn Scare Slows Kellogg Output - AP 22oct00

• Bt Hazards: Possible Human Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Bt Crops: Comments on the human health and product characterization sections of EPA's Bt Plant-Pesticides Biopesticides Registration Action Document - Michael Hansen, Ph.D. / Consumer Policy Institute / Consumers Union Presented to the EPA Science Advisory Panel Arlington, VA 20oct2000

• Polio Vaccine in BSE Scare - BBC 20oct00

• Grower having trouble tracking altered corn - FWJG  20oct00

• Bioethics And The Food We Eat  - CBS 19oct00

• Save habitats, not just individual species Shortsighted Biotech - Ellen Goodman 19oct00

• Argentina Cools to GM Crops - Mae-Wan Ho 18oct00

• Unethical Policies Undermine Value of Genetic Testing New British law permits DNA-based discrimination -  MSNBC 18oct00

• Genetic barrier to engineering corn discovered -  UPI 18oct00

• Genetic ID Neutral in Testing of Food - WSJ 18oct00

• Louisiana Cotton Farmer Loses to Monsanto - Farm Progress 18oct00

• Illinois figures out how much corn not approved for human use has entered commercial stocks - AP 17oct00

• Expanded Recall of StarLink Corn Highlights Need for New Law to Protect Consumers, Farmers - US Senator Dick Durbin 17oct00

• ConAgra Halts Processing at Mill To Check for Bioengineered Corn - WSJ 17oct00

• 'Frankenfish' or Tomorrow's Dinner?  -  Washington Post 17oct00

• Health fear over GM cattle feed: Key DNA fragments can enter the human food chain - Guardian 5oct00

• Food tests miss GM ingredients - London Times 15oct00

• Roundup 70% of Monsanto sales - Traditional Seeds & Tech Feeds for GMOs comprising the remainder -  DJN 13oct00

• Biotechnology NOT Better Than Continued Use of Pesticides - Paul Goettlich / Journal & Courier 12oct00

• Engineered corn found in more tacos - AP 12oct00

• New Kid on the Block -- Not yet Possible to Bring Bucardo Back from Dead - Editorial / The Economist 12oct00

• Friends of the Earth Environmental Group Seeks UK Biocrop Criminal Charges - DJN 11oct00

• Bt-Corn Pollen from Iowa Fields Kills Monarch Caterpillars - PAN 10oct00

• Aventis Admits Growing Unauthorized GM Seed in UK  - ENS 10oct00

• UK Govt Reveals 5 More "Unpublicized" Biocrop Trial Sites - DJN 9oct00

• Taco shell recall focuses on safety of biotech foods: Caution urged until impact of such products can be studied - Journal and Courier 9oct00

• Monsanto Cotton Can Make Gonorrhea Untreatable According to UK Gov. Sources - Press Release 8oct00

• Agriculture at a crossroads: Will organic farming succeed? - Peter Melchett, Exec. Dir. Greenpeace UK at Annual Greenpeace Business Conference 8oct00

• Agriculture and biotechnology: Considerations for the future - Bob Shapiro, CEO Monsanto at Annual Greenpeace Business Conference 8oct00

• Nader Joins Call to Action on Genetically Engineered Foods - Vote Nader Press Release 6oct00

• BASF to Invest Heavily In Plant Biotechnology Handelsblatt - 2oct00

• Monsanto will find a supporter in the White House, regardless of which candidate wins - Monsanto Press Release 1oct00

• Food’s Frontier: The Next Green Revolution (review) - Book by Richard Manning / North Point Press, Oct00

• Bt Human Cell Exposure Assays of Bacillus thuringiensis Commercial Insecticides - EHP Oct00

• Syngenta: Switching off farmers' rights? - Hugh Warwick, Genetics Forum Oct00.

• Native Americans zero in on bioengineering schemes -  Indian Country Today, Rapid City, S.D. 30sep00

• Statement by USDA and EPA on Preventing Starlink Corn From Being Used in Processed Foods - 29sep00

• Wild Rice: Rice by Any Other Name: The University of Minnesota's genetic research on wild rice goes against the grain - Peter Ritter / City Beat 27sep00

• Michael J. Phillips, BIO Exec Testifies at Senate Hearing on Biotech Food - BIO Press Release 26sep00

• Down on the farm: As controversy mounts, farmers second guess the rush to plant biotech crops - Boston Globe 26sep00

• Greenpeace executive director Lord Peter Melchett and 27 activists not guilty - BBC 20sep00

• Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops: Why We Need A Global Moratorium - Ronnie Cummins OCA 12sep00

• Why Many Farmers and Consumers are Lukewarm About GMOs and What Might Change Their Minds  - Charles Benbrook  6sep00

• We Are Being Exposed To One Of The Largest Uncontrolled Experiments In History - Dr. Martha R. Herbert / Chicago Tribune 3sep00

• Skylark: Under Threat From Beet Crops - Salt Lake Tribune 1sep00

• Genetically Modified Crops and Farmland Biodiversity -  Science 1sep00

• How to Let Ordinary People in on the Future: Be careful, take precautions  - Jacques Testart / Le Monde Diplomatique Sep00

• Australia's CSIRO to probe GMO environment impact - Reuters 29aug00

• Biotech ag initiatives endorsed -  Bismark Tribune (North Dakota) 29aug00

• Organic Farming Will Feed the World - Guardian 24aug00

• City of Boulder Open Space Policy -23aug00

• Giant salmon a scary prospect Genetic engineering prompts worries about 'Frankenfish'  -  News Tribune 21aug00

• Biotechnology: Not the Answer to Hunger  -  Devinder Sharma / The Hindu Business Line July 21jul00

• 'Frankengrass' creates Multi-Coloured Lawns  - Anova 20aug00

• Genetic Diversity and Disease Control in Rice  -  Nature 17aug00

• The mysteries of Mad Cow Disease  - MSNBC 4aug00

• Crops of Uncertain Nature? Controversies and Knowledge Gaps Concerning Genetically Modified Crops An Inventory - Plant Research International B.V., Wageningen r.12 Aug00

• Buried Data in Monsanto's Study on Roundup Ready Soybeans - Whole Life Times Aug00

• GM crop debate grows in North Carolina - Herald-Sun ?Aug00

• Field Deposition of Bt Transgenic Corn Pollen: Lethal Effects on the Monarch Butterfly - Hansen & Obrycki / Oecologia 29jul00 

• Scotts GM Grass Greener with Terminator, USDA's Biotech Advisory Board Ruminates on Terminator - RAFI 26jul00

• Activists Destroy 1500-2000 GE Trees at Mead Corp - Genetix Alert News Release 25jul00

• Advanta GM pollen contamination over 4km  - FOE UK 20jul00

• Europe 'caving in to US firms' on approval for GM foods -  Guardian Unlimited 14jul00

• Can Biology End World Hunger? - Margaret Wertheim / LA Weekly 7jul00

• Frankenfoods Should genetically modified produce frighten you? - Margaret Wertheim / LA Weekly 7jul00

• Dolly Firm Used Woman's DNA - GeneWatch - BBC 3jul00

• Potential for Ecological Release Virus-Resistant Transgenes into Natural Populations of wild Brassica - 6th Int. Symp. Biosafety of Gen. Mod. Org Jul00

• The Promise of Plant Biotechnology: The Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms  - Patrick Brown Jul00

• Experimenting With Life - David Suzuki / Yes! Summer 2000

• Production of gene-targeted sheep by nuclear transfer from cultured somatic cells  - Nature 29jun00

• Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina  - GAO Testimony 29jun00

• Australian Modified Food Regulator Gets Sharp Teeth -  Sydney Morning Herald 21jun00

• Biotechnology: Not the Answer to Hunger - Devinder Sharma / The Hindu Business Line 21jul00

• NGOs on GMOs: the Reasons for Resistance - Jean-Eric Aubert Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD 21jul00

• National Farmers Union Position on GMOs  - NFU Press Release 16jun00

• Cross-Pollinated Canola Resists Three Herbicides - Toronto Globe & Mail 15jun00

• Buffer Zone for GM Crops Does Not Work - Times (London) 14jun00

• Genetic Scientists and Executives: "US Patent Office Needs Money, Not Laws For Gene Patents" -  Dow Jones Newswires 14jul00

• GM crops 'may contaminate others' - BBC  13jun00

• Craig Venter: The Genome Warrior - New Yorker 12jun2000

• Health Risks of GM Foods: Many Opinions but Few Data - Jose L Domingo / Science v.288 9jun00

• Monsanto Discovers Wild Gene Fragments in Roundup Ready Soya - Agribusiness Examiner 6jun00

• Monsanto Lobbyist to Serve as U.S. "Consumer Advocate" on U.S. Biotech Consultative Forum Delegation - Agribusiness Examiner 6jun00

• Anarchist Golfing Association causes between $$300,000 and $500,000 damage to a grass research facility - The Oregonian 6jun00

• Monsanto Lobbyist Carol Foreman Appointed US "Consumer Advocate" Biotech Consultative Forum Delegation - Agribusiness Examiner 6jun00

• The People v Monsanto, Anniston, Alabama - Guardian 5jun00

• US 'dumped' GM food in Orissa  -  BBC 3jun00

• Suspend GM crops for at least 5 years - scientists  - The East African 2jun00

• What Indigenous People Should Know About Biocolonialism  -  Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism Jun00

• Soy gene find fuels doubts on GM crops  -  Guardian UK 31may00

• Agricultural Biotechnology And Public Attitudes In The European Union  -  AgBioForum Spring/Summer00

• Soya gene find fuels doubts on GM crops - Monsanto - Guardian 31may00

• 245 Consumers Organizations in 111 Countries Call For Mandatory Labeling - Mae-Wan Ho / Bangkok Post 29may00

• GM Genes Can Spread to People and Animals  -  Independent UK 28may00

• Senators: Gene Therapy Unsafe- Reuters 25may00

• Monkeys genetically modified in the womb -  BBC 22may00

• Genetically Engineered AIDS Vaccine to Be Tested In Africa -  SFC 20may00

• Anger over GM 'delay' - BBC 18may00

• GM firm faked test figures Poor crop results were replaced by a forgery, Ministry's internal paper shows  -  Guardian London 16apr00

• Research Shows Roundup Ready Soybeans Yield Less - IANR News Service, University of Nebraska 16may00

• Why Not Genetically Engineered Foods?  - Paul Goettlich / South Bend Tribune 15may00

• US Patent on Neem Revoked - Times of India 12may00

• Who's Winning the Frankenfoods Fight? - BioDemocracy News #27 May 2000

• Grocery Manufacturers of America Petition to FDA - GMA 4may00

• Italy to Scientists: NO GM Gelato - ENS 5may00

• Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare Standards for Safety Assessment of Foods and Food Additives Produced by rDNA Techniques  -  1may00

• Whole Foods Market Genetic Engineering Position Statement May00

• The "Promise" of Stem Cell Research - Testimony before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies 26apr00

• Biotech grapes destroyed in Californian wine country, Petaluma pruners communique  - Genetix Alert 16apr00

• EU rejects GMO liability laws - Australian BC 13apr00 

• Austria Bans Aventis' Gene-Modified Maize - Reuters 13apr00

• Villagers Force a Halt to Crop Trial - Sunday-Times (UK) 12apr00 

• EU Parliament rejects GMO liability clause - Reuters 12apr00

• Giant GM salmon on the way - BBC 11apr00 & Environmentalists alarmed over giant GM fish 11apr00 Reuters

• Biotechnology: New danger or solution to Africa's food deficit? - Africa News Service 11apr00

• The Risks and Realities of Engineered Crops -  US News and World Report 10apr00

• All Tomatoes are NOT Equal - Christian Science Monitor editorial 7apr00

• Biotech Firms Launch Food Ad Blitz; Up to $50 Million Annually Pledged To Woo Consumers - Washington Post 4apr00

• $50 Million (1st Year Cost) Biotech Ad Campaign Attempts to Shape U.S. Attitudes Toward Modified Crops -  WSJ 4apr00

• Julie Hill on GMOs: A Public Perspective - OECD Observer 2apr00

• GM Food, Regulation and Consumer Trust - OECD Observer 2apr00

• Environmental Genome Project: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications - EHP Apr00

• Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation - Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources National Research Council Spring00

• Public Took a few years to catch up with Monsanto's vision - and they didn't like what they saw - Globe and Mail 31mar00

• Can Genetically Engineered Crops Feed a Hungry World? Con - Biotech Will Not Feed the World - Miguel Altieri, Ph.D. / SFC 30mar00

• Genetic Imperialism And Bio-Serfdom:  Implications Of Genetic Engineering For Farmers And Agriculture - Rafael V. Mariano - KMP 30mar00

• Monsanto Criticised by ASA Over Misleading Adverts - BBC 31mar00

• rBGH What’s That In My Milk?  -  The Tech (MIT) v.120, n.16 31mar00

• Protesters Rally Against Biotechs  - Biodevastation2000  - AP 27mar00

• 1,500 March in Boston to Protest Biotech Food - NYT 27mar00

• Biotech protest draws 2,500 Demonstrators march peacefully, seek ethics debate  -  Boston Globe 27mar00

• Opposition reflects the diversity of a grass-roots movement At Copley Square, wide spectrum expected -  Boston Globe 26mar00

• BioDevastation 2000 Underway In Boston; Conference addresses anti-biotechnology issues -  Boston Globe 25mar00

• Biodevastation 2000  - City tightens security procedures as biotech conference nears -  Boston Globe 24mar00

• Outcrossing Between Canola Varieties - A Volunteer Canola Control Issue  -  Alberta Agriculture Food and Rural Development 24mar00

• Comments to the EPA on Monsanto's Application to Register Bt Corn Targeted at Corn Rootworms  - Union of Concerned Scientists 20mar00

• The Rise and Fall of GM  -  Transcript of UK Channel 4's Equinox 20mar00

• Genetically Engineered Anti-Aging Medication Poses Undisclosed Cancer Risks - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. / Cancer prevention Coalition 14mar00

• New genes and seeds: Protesters in Europe grown more passionate - NYT 14mar00

• Biotech food fight pits U.S., China vs. Europe, environmentalists - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 12mar00

• Congress: Gene-altered foods may be put to the test - Fox News 11 mar00

• Truth in Organic Foods - Huntsville Times 9mar00

• Is GM Safe?  - BBC Transcript 9mar00

• Restaurants Try to End Genetically Modified Food - Dow Jones 9mar00

• Make Way for Frankenfish! What Happens To These Ordinary Salmon If The Genetically Modified Lunkers Ever Get Loose?  - Time 6mar00

• The Kept University  - Atlantic Monthly v.285, n.3 Mar00

• Wheat Future is in Bio-tech NOT GM -  Farmers Weekly 25feb00 

• Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track  - RAFI 25feb00

• Beware the appliance of science These scientists act as if they live on another planet to the rest of us -  Guardian (UK) 24feb00

• Worried Public Turns to Organic Foods: Research funds, once scarce, may see an upturn -  Sacramento Bee 23feb00

• Portrait Of An Industry In Trouble  -  Worldwatch Institute 17feb00

• Firms face battle over altered food - Shareholders demand say in use of GMOs  -  USA TODAY 15feb00

• Genetically Engineered Vitamin 'A' Rice: A Blind Approach to Blindness Prevention - Dr. Vandana Shiva  14feb00

• Roundup's  Surprise Crop Puzzles Farmer Percy Schmeiser - Guardian 5feb00

• European hysteria over Frankenfood - National Post 4feb00

• We need a comprehensive analysis - Dr Donald Maclaren / OECD Observer 4feb00 

• Genetic Concern welcomes food safety trade protocol - Irish Times 3feb00

• Back to Basics: GM Backlash Tilting the Balance in Illinois -  The Guardian (UK) 2feb00

• U.S. should label modified foods - Minnesota Daily 2feb00

• Transgenic Crops in Indiana: Short-term issues for farmers  - Nielsen, R.L. Feb00

• AgriBioTech Files For Bankruptcy  - AgBiotech Reporter Feb00

• Survey: French Shun GM Foods Regardless  - AgBiotech Reporter Feb00

• Court Affirms Seeds and Plant Patents of Pioneer Hi-Bred  - AgBiotech Reporter Feb00

• Transgenic Crops in Indiana: Short-term issues for farmers  - Nielsen, R.L. / Purdue Feb00

• Pandora's Pantry -  Mother Jones Jan/Feb00

• Trade Rules Set On Food Genetics; Compromise Gained On Labeling Issue  -  Washington Post 30jan00

• "Frankenstein Food" Pact Set  -  LA Times 30jan00 

• Monsanto Chairman Robert Shapiro's Charities Will Gain $22.6 Million from Pharmacia Merger  - Knight-Ridder 29jan00

• Monsanto's name radically modified  -  Guardian UK 28jan00

• Organic Vision of Sustainable Agriculture  - Benedikt Haerlin, Greenpeace Biotechnology: the Science and the Impact Conference Proceedings 20jan00

• Biotech Firms Transforming Animals Into Drug-Producing Machines - SFC 17jan00

• Are GMOs essential for effective sustainable agriculture in a hungry world? Dismantling the myth  - Natural Law Party, Wessex UK 12jan00

• Martha Crouch: The Cost of Biotech Fever -  Mother Jones 11jan2000

• Seed of Controversy - Will Richard Seed, an unemployed physicist, be first to clone humans? - Time 11jan00

• Playing the Odds: Health insurers want to know what's in your DNA - Time 11jan00

• Arpad Pusztai - No Small (Genetic) Potatoes Joel Bleifuss / In These Times 10jan00

• Retailers Dropping Bio-Foods -  USA Today 4jan00

• Prescriptive Use of Transgenic Hybrids for Corn Rootworms: An Ominous Cloud on the Horizon? - Michael Gray / Proceedings of Year 2000 Crop Prot. Tech. Conf., U of IL Jan00

• Genetic Engineering is NOT an Extension of Conventional Plant Breeding-  Michael K. Hansen, Ph.D Jan00

• The Genetically Modified Food Fight - Michael Jacobson / West J Med 2000;172:220–221

• Genetically Engineered Crops Planted in 1999 - ISAAA 2000

• Motors of Stasis and Change: The Regulation of Genetic Stability - EF Keller 2000

• Useful Genetic Engineering Websites

• Turfgrass and Ornamental Research Support 

• Dinner Menu at Chez Transgene

• Summary of Consumer Surveys Related to Labelling of Foods Produced Using Biotechnology -  Michael Hansen, Consumer Policy Institute, Consumers Union, USA

• 10 Reasons Why Biotechnology Will Not Ensure Food Security, Protect The Environment & Reduce Poverty In The Developing World - Miguel A. Altieri & Peter Rosset

• DNA - Some Basics

• Understanding the Human Genome - Undated student project / John's Hopkins Medical Institutions, Division of Biomedical Information Sciences

• Evaluation of the allergenic risk of transgenic foods from vegetable origin - Comptes Rendus de l'Academie d'Agriculture de France 2000

• Can't See the Trees for the Wood  (GE Trees) -  Seedling 2000 

• Christian Aid International Policy Briefing - CAI Jan00

• Genetic Engineering pre-2000 files

   

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