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If you plan to read only one thing on this website, we strongly suggest reading Heartbreak in the Heartland, about Percy Schmeiser, the farmer that Monsanto sued, provided here in several languages: English - Heartbreak in the Heartland: The True Cost of Genetically Engineered Crops* Spanish - La Congoja en el Campo: El costo verdadero en los transgénicos*  French ( Québec) - Coeur brisé dans le terroir: Le véritable coût des cultures génétiquement modifiées* Chinese         Word document (Chinese font required) Hindi         Word document (Hindi font required | Download here)                   Hindi dub CD of Heartbreak is available - contact us for details  Bulgarian - Скръб в родината Japanese - (Japanese font required)  German - Rapsfarmer-David gegen Biotech-Goliath: Die wahren Kosten von gentechnisch verändertem Saatgut Russian -  (PDF file)  Давид - рапсовый фермер против Голиафа Coming Soon..... Zulu ! What Makes Percy Schmeiser So Persistent? Interview by Paul Goettlich 27may04 *  with link to free online video

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

• Monsanto Names Greubel President For Brazil Operations  - Dow Jones Newswire 28jun01

• Comments on: Environment Assessment: Confined field study of a transgenic Pink Bollworm Release  -  Prof. Joe Cummins 26jun01

• Greenpeace has Govt’s ear, farmers turn shrill Say NGO influenced Bt cotton decision  -  The Indian Express 22jun01

• How magic markers are messing up our food system  - Naomi Klein / Toronto Globe and Mail 20jun01

• ELF Claims Responsibility For Action Against Genetic Engineering At University Of Idaho  - Press Release 18jun01

• Greens/ EFA call for an international ban on patenting life forms -   Press Release 14jun01

• StarLink Corn Cleared in 17 Food Reactions: But Environmental Defense Says 'No Way' - Washington Post 14jun01

• Crop Pullers Acquitted While Others Pull, Pull, Pull ! (Oh HAPPY DAY!)  -  The Guardian 13jun01

• Genetically Modified Crops Can't be Stopped:  Non-biotech Fields Reveal Contamination  - New York Times 10jun01

• San Diego Police, City Officials, Downtown Business Owners Meet June 7 to Discuss BIO 2001 Protests  - Conlan/Zenger's News Service 8jun01

• Cloned Animals Should be Tightly Regulated Like Drugs U.S. studying safety of animal clones as food -  Reuters 6jun01

• China Enacts Genetic Product Rules Requires Labeling  - AP 6jun01

• Agroterrorism Prevention Act of 2001 (Introduced in the House) HR 2060 IH 5jun01

• GM plan 'Licence to Contaminate' -  Independent 4jun01

• Alter Genes, Risk an Ecosystem?  -  Washington Post 4jun01

• Industry Campaigning for Research Tax Credit -  SF Chronicle 4jun01

• Tainted pigs show up in sausage at funeral  - AP 3jun01

• GM Crop withdrawals increasing - gmfoodnews.com 2jun01

• Letter Writing Action Tell USDA & Congress "We will not stand for organic corn being contaminated !"

• GM Crop Decontaminations around the UK  - Norfolk Genetic Information Network (ngin) 1jun01

• Bombing Biotech  -  Wall Street Journal 1jun01

• A Conversation with Miguel Altieri on Agroecology - Russell Schoch / California Monthly Jun01

• The New Thought Police Jonathan Matthews & Mae-wan Ho / Splice May/June01

• The Maori view on GM --- Molecular Kaitiakitanga  - Splice May/June01

• Transgenic Insecticidal Corn: Beyond Insecticidal Toxicity to Ecological Complexity  - Obrycki JJ, et al. / BioScience h.51 n.5 May01

• Biotechnology and Food Security  - Agriculture Information Bulletin USDA, ERS Jun01

• EU Directive 2001/18/EC: Deliberate Release into the Environment of GMOs and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC 31may01

• Adoption of Biotechnology and its Production Impacts   - ERS USDA 31may01

• Michigan is pushing to become the Silicon Valley of biotech  - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 30may01

• Activists for Rooting out GM Crops  -  IPS 30may01

• European Demand for Non-GMO Soybean Meal Soars  -  AgJournal 30may01

• "Sophistry or Sensitive Science?" An Interview with Dr. Martha Herbert  - Wild Duck Review 29may01

• Big Business = Bad Science? Commercialisation of Academic Science - ISIS Report 29may01

• AP Interview With Venter  -  AP 28may01

• No Longer Swallowing Experts' Advice on What's Safe to Eat  -  The Guardian 28may01

• Chiron 20th Year -  SF Chronicle 28may01

• Greenpeace Barricades Nestle In GM Food Protest  - Reuters 28may01

• Wake Up and Smell the (GM) Coffee  - Action Aid 28may01

• Coffee Farmer in Ethiopia at the Sharp End - Action Aid 28may01

• Kanamycin Still Used and Cross-Reacts with New Antibiotics  - ISIS Report 27may01

• News Update  - The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods 27may01

• Down on the Genetic Farm  -  Editorial / New Scientist 26may01

• End GM Contamination of Britain’s Organic Farms  - Tim Yeo letter to Michael Meacher  25may01

• GM Wheat Tests Making Canadian Farmers Nervous  - CBC News 25may01

• Shoppers Fear GM Food Risks  -  Dorset Echo (UK) 25may01

• GMOs in Food Production: Evidence of Risks  - Briefing Paper / Soil Association 24may01

• Global Appeal: Help Distribute 40 Million Tonnes Of Surplus Food To 360 Million Hungry Indians  - Devinder Sharma 24may01

• Making Babies: An Automated IVF Chip Could Lead to Production-line Embryos  - New Scientist 23may01

• 'All organic farms at risk' say Greens (Norfolk UK) 23may01

• Legal Barriers to Human Cloning May Not Hold Up  -  Washington Post 23may01

• Brazil Citizens' Jury Delivers 'NO' Verdict to GM Crops  -  The Guardian 23may01

• ELF Fires Prompt Probe: Washington, Oregon blazes likely Related  - New York Times/AP 23may01

• Industry Giants Urged to Fight GM Fish  -  IntraFish 22may01

• Biotech to drive chemicals sales, report says  - Reuters 22may01

• Key UK GM Crop Trial Abandoned  - BBC 22may01

• 'Gene Giants' Criticized at World Ag Forum - Reuters 22may01

• Future farm Gene altered farm animals are on their way, but will animal welfare or food safety be boosted or suffer?  - New Scientist 21may01

• Seed business sprouts crisis for Mexico's Savia -  Reuters 21may01

• Hopes raised in fight against sharpshooter Genetic discovery may help grapevines resist costly disease  -  SF Chronicle 21may01

• Indian growers target Europe with non-GM soybeans - Reuters 21may01

• Gene Altered Farm Animals: will animal welfare or food safety be boosted or suffer? - New Scientist 21may01

• Be Skeptical, Very Skeptical David Baker, Student Speaker at 2001 Commencement College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley 20may01

• Government turns on its GM allies  -  Independent 20may01

• Rice Straw Ethanol  -  SF Chronicle 20may01

• GM Pigs Smell Sweeter  -  The Observer 20may01

• RSPB to sell organic meat in high street  -  Independent on Sunday 20may01

• GMO food: From fields to supermarket shelves  - Editorial / Fort Wayne Journal Gazette  20may01

• Really Big Fish  - Editorial / Washington Post 19may01

• Activists Destroy GE Crops at Research Facility in Brentwood, CA  - GENETIX 18may01

• Top Seven Agrochemical Companies in 2000  - PANNA 18may01

• Pollen In The Air  -  Farm Journal 18may01

• Aventis to Landfill 5 Million Pounds of Biotech Rice  - Houston Chronicle 18may01

• Biodevastation 2001 Protesters prepare to Upstage Biotech Industry Gathering  - Berkeley Daily Planet  18may01

• Papers on OSR Pollen Dispersion  - National Pollen Research Unit, University College 18may01

• Equador Halts Food Aid Program due to GM content   - EFE News Service 18may01

• Glufosinate Ammonium Induces Convulsion through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in mice - Neurosci Lett 18may01

• Nearly 1/4 US maize contaminated with StarLink  -  Knight-Ridder Tribune 17may01

• Unexplained Health Problems of Cloned Animals Makes Cloning for Milk and Meat Unacceptable  - New Scientist 17may01

• Life-Threatening Food?   - CBS  17may01

• Risks inherent to r-DNA technology  - The Hindu 17may01

• Life-Threatening Food?  - CBS 17may01

• StarLink - Bioengineered Corn More Prevalent than Thought  -  Boston Globe 17may01

• Mutant bacteria biowars threaten apocalypse now  - Sydney Morning Herald 17may01

• Evan Brown: Month's jail for man who hit Canadian PM with Pie  -  Reuters/CBC 16may01

• Senior Scientist Dismissed for Defending Academic Standards  - ISIS Report 16may01

• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) accuses GM industry body of bungling - Press Release 16may01

• Bio-terrorism and the Gill rDNA trajectory  - Natural Law Party Wessex 15may01

• China introduces GM labeling  - China Online 15may01

• Horizontal Gene Transfer - DNA in the Soil  - AgBio View 15may01

• EPA to hold workshops on Bt corn insect resistance  - Reuters (undated)

• The Implications of the Percy Schmeiser Decision  - E. Ann Clark, Ph.D. 14may01

• Law to save organic crops from GM fallout (UK)  -  Independent 13may01

• Farms Risk Losing Organic Status from GM Contamination   - Soil Association 12may01

• GM chief Chris Pollock refuses Meacher plea to scrap test  -  The Guardian UK 12may01

• FAO Says GM Crops NOT Answer to Hunger -  Reuters 11may01 

• Rising fears for academic freedom  -  ANU Reporter 11may01

• U.S. Senate Declares May 13-20 National Biotechnology Week  - Press Release BIO 11may01

• Resolution on Transgenic Salmonids  - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) 11may01

• Merck Agrees to Acquire Rosetta In Bid to Enhance Research Arm  - Wall Street Journal 11may01

• Devinder Sharma replies to C.S. Prakash  - Norfolk Genetic Information Network  10may01

• Groups Seek FDA Moratorium On Genetically Engineered Fish -  Wall Street Journal 10may01

• Archbishop of Birmingham: "We Must All Act For the Good of the People and the Planet - Birmingham Post (UK) 10may01

• New Technological Breakthrough to "Fix" Problems of the Previous Breakthrough  - The Onion 9may01

• Mission Impossible - ... it will never solve poverty and malnutrition -  Manila Times 9may01

• No benefits from GM Foods FSA discovers!  - Norfolk Genetic Information Network (ngin)  9may01

• Biotech Bullies Pick on Scottish School Kids with "Your World"  - (see "Your World" above) Norfolk Genetic Information Network 9may01

• Aventis's CropScience Results Seen Boosting Price Tag  -  Dow Jones Newswires 9may01

• Argentina finds and destroys illegal GM seeds  - Reuters 9may01

• Monsanto Sues Again: Roger Nelson gets ready to plant, and battle in court over seed  - AP 7may01

• "Mi Cometa" Children Protest in Front of Offices of the World Food Program  - Acción Ecológica 4may01

• UN Explores Ethical Issues of Bioengineered Organisms  - ENS 7may01

• Chirac calls for proper GM safety testing  - Natural Law Party Wessex 7may01

• Farmers lobbied at GM trial sites in UK - BBC 7may01

• Monsanto's Dangerous Logic as seen in the Application Document submitted to Japan  - Nagoya University, Japan 

• Trials of GM maize threaten unique organic seed cache  -  Independent 6may01

• Seed bank couple fear GM threat to their life's work - Independent 6may01

• Genetic Engineered Babies Still Experimental: Carry Unknown Risks  - BBC 5may01

• Activists should Dream of Utopias  -  Ignacio Chapella Apocalypse Now? A workshop at UC Berkeley 4-5 May 2001.

• Babies Born in Experiments Have Genes From 3 People: Researchers Emphasize Added Genes No Consequence  - New York Times 5may01

• Enhanced tolerance of Rice to low iron availability in Alkaline Soils  - Nature Biotechnology v.19, n.5 May01

• Genetically Altered Babies Born  -  BBC 4may01

• Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens - II - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4may01

• South Africa - Biased Biotech Policy being Engineered by South African government? - NLP Wessex 4may01

• Grocery Manufacturers of America Want Biotech Food Tests  - AP 4may01

• World's First Genetically Altered Babies Born -  Reuters 4may01

• Monsanto Pledges to Donate Genetic Marker to Further Support the Better Bean Initiative - PRNewswire 4may01

• Law: Where the Wild Wind Blow: Genetically Altered Seed and Neighboring Farmers -  Duke Law & Technology Review 3may01

• Nigeria Pleads for Labels on GM Foods  - Globe and Mail 3may01

• Germany's Merck Faces Dilemma With U.S. Branding - Wall Street Journal 3may01

• Troubled Times Amid Commercial Success for Roundup Ready Soybeans:  Glyphosate Efficacy is Slipping - Dr. Charles M. Benbrook 3may01

• Monsanto's Roundup Victim of its Success: Widespread Herbicide Resistance, More Diseases -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3may01

• Risks of Genetic Engineering as told by an Indian Molecular Biologist  -  The Hindu 3may01

• Environmental Health Institute to Breed Mice with Gene Variants for Disease Studies  - NIEHS Press Release 3may01

• What's That Fish Doing in Your Tomato?; Expert on Genetically Engineered Foods to Speak at Bastyr University - Business Wire 2may01

• N American GMO Crops Face Bans in Certain Lucrative Export Markets  -  Boston Globe 2may01

• First GM Humans Already Created - Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho /  ISIS 2may01

• Scientists Fear Biotech will Harm Food Supply  -  Globe & Mail 2may01

• Genetically Engineered Tomato Is 'Heart-Smart' - Reuters Health 2may01

• ELF - Laboratory Ducks Are Stolen, And It's a Case for the F.B.I . - (Abstract)  New York Times 1may01

• The Age of Frankenstein  - Eduardo Galeano / The Progressive 1may01

• Organic crop certifiers decry transgenic contamination  - Cropchoice news 1may01

• Brazil - Model for Research Rises in a Third World City - New York Times 1may01

• Media Serve Genetically Modified Food Industry  -  Jane Akre and Steve Wilson / MediaFile  May/Jun01

• Invasion of transgenes from salmon or other genetically modified organisms into natural populations  -  Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. May01

• Biotech Bullies: The Debate Intensifies - Ronnie Cummins / BioDemocracy News #33 May01

• Based on what you now know, Do you think we should grow GM crops?  - PBS / Frontline Poll May01

• ANDi 'Jelly Belly'  -  National Geographic World Magazine (a children's magazine) May01

• GNA Expressing Potatoes - Brian R. Shmaefsky /  ISB News May01

• GM rape heading for agronomic scrap heap?  - NLP Wessex May01

• Report on Cloning - Church of Scotland Board of Social Responsibility May01

• Report on Cloning by SRT Project of the Church of Scotland  - Excerpted from Board of National Mission Report May01

• Transgenic mice expressing bacterial phytase as a model for phosphorus pollution control  - Nature Biotechnology May01

• Rebel French farmers' leader Jose Bové Urges Canadians to ruin GM Crops  - Reuters 30apr01

• Fears for birds as cash runs out for GM  - The Express 30apr01

• Bayer May Buy Aventis CropScience  - Reuters 30apr01

• Clones have souls, says Church of Scotland  - Scotland on Sunday 29apr01

• Gene Injections Make Blind Dogs See -  Washington Post 28apr01

• Milburn challenges NHS to exploit genetics revolution  - British Medical Journal 28apr01

• Putting Genetics in Perspective Requires Better Understanding -  British Medical Journal  28apr01

• UK Biotechs Call For Govt Help To Compete Globally  -  Dow Jones Newswires 27apr01

• Celera to Keep Mouse Genome to Itself  - AP 27apr01

• US Refiners Shun Bioengineered Sugar Beets, Frustrating Plans for Monsanto, Aventis  -  Wall Street Journal 27apr01

• Canola-Seed Recall Is Initiated Over Presence of Monsanto Gene  -  Wall Street Journal 26apr01

• Domestication’s Family Tree - DNA is revealing that taming animals was not a simple process - The Economist 26apr01

• Where Genes Fail - Dietary Interventions for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's?  - ISIS Report 25apr01

• Based on what you now know, Do you think we should grow GM crops? -  PBS / Frontline Poll 24apr01

• U.S. Buyback of Corn Seed Draws 77 Smaller Companies  -  Wall Street Journal 24apr01

• StarLink Biotech corn found in MORE products - Washington Post 24apr01

• Identity in a Bottle Kit for storing a child's genetic code gains sales as a car-dealer come-on  -  Wall Street Journal 23apr01

• Jane Akre and Steve Wilson Win Goldman Award for Fox  rBGH Story  -  SF Chronicle 23apr01

• New life for tobacco? Battered growers see hope in genetic engineering  -  Washington Post 23apr01

• Warehouse in St. Louis ships gene fragments to thousands of scientists worldwide - SF Chronicle 22apr01

• Japanese Sequence Genome of Virulent Bacteria Staphylococcus aureus  - Reuters 21apr01

• Molecular Biology Invading the Genetic Code  - Science 20apr01 

• Texas SB 102 Bans Human Cloning  - Texas 20apr01

• New Biotech Crops Face Old Biotech Questions  -  Dow Jones News Wires 20apr01

• Thailand Expects GMO Labels on All Foods by 2002  -  Bangkok Post 19apr01

• China Bans GE Rice, Wheat, Corn and  Soy  - South China Morning Post 18apr01

• Approaching Biology From a Different Angle: Scientist at Work Leroy Hood  - New York Times 17apr01

• International Day of Farmer's Struggle Against GMOs and Patents on Life - 17apr01

• UK Dairy Farmers Don't Need US Soy Anymore  - NLP Wessex 17apr01

• April 17th International Day of Farmer's Struggle Against GMOs and Patents on Life - Via Campesina 17apr01

• Working in Academia and Industry - The Scientist surveys researchers  - The Scientist 15[8]:28 16apr01

• Novartis Scaled Back Research on Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants  -  Fortune 16apr01

• Taking Science Seriously in the GM Debate: Science in crisis  - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho at US National Academy of Science 16apr01

• Our High School Age Children Being Taught Industry's Myopic Vision of Nature  - SFC 16apr01

• Fury at Pro-GM School Magazines - "Biotech and You"  -  Sunday Herald (Scotland) 15apr01

• Human Genome Project in Crisis: Where is the program for life?  - Richard Strohman / California Monthly April 01

• Changes Sought in Canada's Patent Process  -  Genetic Engineering News 15mar01

• UK Schools GM Scandal - US Propaganda Initiative Begins  - NLP Wessex 15apr01

• Sri Lanka announces ban on genetically modified food imports - AP 13apr01

• Scientists investigate 'contamination' of oilseed rape crops by GM material  -  Independent 13apr01

• US Bureau tells Mexico to stop GM Labelling  - Natural Law Party Wessex 13apr01 

• Neogen Licenses Monsanto Technologies for Rapid Detection of of genetically enhanced grains - Dow Jones Newswires 12apr01

• Genentech Reports 38 Percent Increase in Product Sales for First Quarter  - Press Release 12apr01

• Italy Police Seize More Monsanto Seed in Raid  - Reuters 12apr01

• CP Kelco Sues Pharmacia, Alleging Misinformation by Monsanto Team  -  Wall Street Journal 12apr01

• Dolly the sheep firm PPL creates gene-spliced pigs  - Reuters 11apr01

• Biotechs suffer the herd instinct of investors  -  Guardian UK 11apr01

• Anti-Human Cloning Bill Heads to Texas Senate  - Press Release 11apr01

• Nissin acknowledges possible presence of GMO food in noodles  - Kyodo News Service 11apr01

• Gene Therapy Is Performed in Bid to Halt Alzheimer's  -  New York Times 11apr01

• Thinking Again of Life's Miracle  - Mae-Wan Ho / ISIS 10apr01

• Virus in DNA 'is cause of mental illness' -  New Scientists 10apr01 

• No Wall High Enough: Nature's Path Concerns Rise With GMO 'Genetic Drift' Contamination  - Business Wire 10apr01

• Blown Profits - Genetic Drift Affects more than Biology - US farmers stand to lose Millions  - Boston Globe 8apr01

• Survey of Scientists and Government Ministers Exposes Complete Lack of Independent Safety Testing Never Carried Out  - NLP Wessex 7apr01

• Thailand Bans Genetically Engineered Crops  - Deutsche Presse-Agentur 6apr01

• Wall Street Journal Tests Find GMOs - Laboratory Tests Belie Promises Of Some 'GMO-Free' Food Labels - Wall Street Journal 5apr01

• Liver on a plate: Artificial organs could be built layer by layer using a non-stick dish  - New Scientist (7apr01) 4apr01

• Monsanto To Get Together With Customers Through Council  -  Wall Street Journal 4apr01

• Farmers demand scrapping of rice research institute -      Inquirer News Service 4apr01

• What next for Percy Schmeiser?  - Canadian Broadcast Corporation 3apr01

• Monsanto's seed depot in Italy set on fire  -  AP 3apr01

• Food Labels Fail to Protect People With Allergies  -  New York Times 3apr01

• Aventis to sell off rather than float CropSciences  - Reuters 3apr01

• USDA's Changing Role: From Distributing Free Seed to Prohibiting Seed Saving -  Cropchoice 2apr01

• Monsanto vs. Percy Schmeiser: No Corporate Liability for Unsafe Sex and Bioserfdom  - Geno-Types - 2apr01

• Cloned cows die at Chico State University  - AP 2apr01

• Biotech Personality List - Alums of Genentech, Chiron, Cetus - SF Chronicle 2apr01

• Cow-Clone Firms Hope to Copy Success Prize animals draw top dollar  -  Washington Post 2apr01

• Sowing Science - KQED TV Special on Genetically Engineered Food (rough transcript by mindfully.org) Apr01

• Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives Miguel A. Altieri, Ph.D. / Food First Special Report n.1 Apr01

• Farmers must sign away rights to legal recourse should Monsanto Crops fail to perform  - Alive Apr01

• Failure of Genetically Engineered Goods  -  Alive: Canadian Journal of Health and Nutrition Apr01

• More than half the foods in U.S. supermarkets contain GE ingredients. Have they been proved safe?  -  Scientific American Apr01

• Italy performs GMO trial About-Face  -  Nature Biotechnology Apr01

• Polluter gets paid - good week for Monsanto and Bush  - NLP Wessex 1apr01

• A biodegradable polymer as a cytokine delivery system for inducing bone formation - Nature Biotechnology Apr01

• Seeds of Concern: Are genetically modified crops an environmental dream come true or a disaster in the making?  -  Scientific American Apr01

• Glyphosate-Resistant Soybean Cultivar Yields Compared with Sister Lines  - Agronomy Journal Mar/Apr01

• Farmers Have Love-Hate Relationship With Biotech  -  LA Times 31mar01

• Biotech Soy Expected to Be 63% of U.S. Crop StarLink corn uproar doesn't dissuade farmers -  LA Times 31mar01

• Spring for Action - CPE/NFFC Joint Statement 30mar01

• Proposed biotech wheat bans falter in N.D., Montana  -  Reuters 30mar01

• Canadian professor speaks out on Percy Schmeiser decision  -  E Ann Clark / Cropchoice Opinion 30mar01

• Percy Schmeiser Loses Fight Against Monsanto  -  Washington Post 30mar01

• Canadian Court Orders Farmer to Pay Monsanto for Unauthorized Use of Canola  - AP 30mar01

• Proposed biotech wheat bans falter in N.D., Montana  -  Reuters 30mar01

• Farmers to boost plantings of gene-altered crops, USDA says  -  AP 30mar01

• Cloning Denies Our Uniqueness  -  SF Chronicle 30mar01

• Italy Seizes 300 Tons of Monsanto's GMO Seeds  -  AP 29mar01

• Think You Own Your Genes? Think Again - Britt Bailey / SF Chronicle 29mar01

• Efforts to Clone Humans Are Opposed in Hearing - Wall Street Journal 29mar01

• Greenpeace protests seafood show Group criticizes production of GE Fish - Boston Globe 28mar01

• We DON'T Want Your GM Crops! -  Dorset Echo (UK) 28mar01

• Genetically engineered fish threaten world's oceans Greenpeace calls for GE-free seas  - Greenpeace Int. 27mar01

• The Risks on the Table  -  Scientific American 27mar01

• Code of the Code -  Scientific American 27mar01

• Does The World Need GM Foods? Interview with Margaret Mellon (Union of Concerned Scientists)  -  Scientific American 27mar01

• Most Americans Want to Know if Eating Bio-Foods (Labeling) -  Reuters 26mar01

• Researchers Find Big Risk of Defect in Cloning Animals  -  New York Times 25mar01

• Cross-Pollination Leads to Triple Herbicide Resistance  - ISB News Report Mar01 (via NLP Wessex)

• Farmers Joining State Efforts Against Bioengineered Crops  -  New York Times 24mar01

• Why Didn't You Warn Me About GMO's?  -  Indiana Prairie Farmer 23mar01

• Biochips Down on the Farm  (eSensor) - The Economist 22mar01

• Monsanto's Genetically Modified (NewLeaf ) Potatoes Find Slim Market  - WSJ 22mar01

• Starbucks protesters target milk hormone (rBGH) -  Boston Globe 21mar01

• Genetically Engineered Crops - A Threat to Soil Fertility?  - PSRAST 21mar01

• E. coli 0157:H7 and Genetic Engineering  - ISIS  21mar01

• StarLink Fact Figures 1999, 2000 Crops - How Much, In What - Reuters 20mar01

• Pink Bollworm - Terminator Insects - The Killing of Females  - ISIS 20mar01

• National Restaurant Association to the FDA:  No Labeling of GMOs! 19mar01

• StarLink Corn  Tainted 430 Million Bushels: Possible Human Allergic Reactions  - Reuters 19mar01

• Biotech Corn Is Test Case For Industry Engineered Food's Future Hinges on Allergy Study - Washington Post 19mar01

• 36% of UK Public Believe What Food Industry Says -  Times UK 19mar01

• Business 101 for Budding Biotech Scientists UCSF class first of its kind in U.S.  -  SFC 19mar01

• Israeli Biotech Begins to Boom  -  AP 19mar01

• Mission Bay Rising Catellus' chief keeps the faith in the building biotech park  -  SFC 19mar01

• Biotech Corn Tainted Vast Amounts Aventis's Report Expands Estimate  - Washington Post 18mar01

• Five Year Freeze Called For by 120 National UK Organisations and Companies  - NLP Wessex 18mar01

• Transplanting fetal brain cells to treat Parkinson's disease "disastrous"  - New Scientists 17mar01

• PiggyBac a Name to Remember  - ISIS 16mar01

• Canada says StarLink Mistakenly Fed to Animals  - Reuters 16mar01

• Starbucks Switches to rBGH-Free Milk  - AP 16mar01

• Scottish Transgenic Sheep Flock Seen Safe, for Now  - Reuters 16mar01

• We Are Such Stuff as Genes Are Made Of  - Op-ed by Evelyn Fox Keller / SFC 16mar01

• Starbucks States Positions on Activist Issues  - Business Wire 16mar01

• The StarLink Situation  (31p. pdf html formatted) - Iowa Grain Quality Initiative 15mar01

• Cloning Around  - The Economist 15mar01

• French Rebel Jose Bové Convicted for GM Food Assault - 4M francs Damage - Reuters 15mar01

• EU Farmers Liable for GM Damage  - NLP Wessex 15mar01

• Canada Confiscates StarLink Shipments  - Reuters 15mar01

• UK GMO Field Trials - A Tragi-Comedy of Errors  - ISIS 15mar01

• Scientists: More Research Is Needed  -  AP 15mar01

• EU Parliament Pledges Support for GM Technologies  - Reuters 15mar01

• Debate Sprouts Over Rice Genome Technology  -  DJN 14mar01

• Tests Confirm StarLink Genes in Kellogg's Food  - AP 14mar01

• Irish Doctors' Environmental Association  Criticize Government-commissioned Report  -  Irish Times 13mar01

• Kellogg's Recalls StarLink Corn Dogs  - Reuters 13mar01

• Alliance to Develop Diabetes Drugs (Abbott/Millenium)  - NYT 13mar01

• Royal Society launches new study on use of GM plants for food  - RS Press Release 13mar01

• Biotech Varieties Not Critical for Indiana Farmers  -  AgWeb News 13mar01

• Parkinson's miracle cure turns into a catastrophe  -  Guardian UK 13mar01

• Purdue professors downplay importance of transgenics to Indiana farmers  - Cropchoice 13mar01

• NFU Adopts GMO Policies  -  AgWeb News 13mar01

• NFU Mutual won't insure GM crop trial risks  - NLP Wessex 13mar01

• Monsanto's Gene-Altered Wheat Stirring Global Fears  - Washington Post 12mar01

• Patents: Part of Fierce Battle Over Genetic Engineering  -  NYT 12mar01

• European and American Regulatory Politics and Policies  - David J. Vogel, UC Berkeley / Checkbiotech.org 12mar01

• Two at Purdue Recommend Not Planting RR Corn - GMO Issues Facing Indiana Farmers in 2001  - Purdue 12mar01

• National Farmers Union Convention Adopts Measures on GMOs  - NFU Press Release 12mar01

• Assassin Bugs - A New Weapon for Pest Control  -  Central Queensland Cotton Tales 12mar01

• EPA Reviewing Bioengineered Crops Independent panel to release results  -  Boston Globe 12mar01

• Why Clone At All?  - ISIS Report 11mar01

• Doctors Say Nothing Will Stop Child-Cloning Effort  -  Los Angeles Times 10mar01

• Aqua Bounty Farms to begin selling genetically modified salmon eggs  - Fishmonger News Network 8mar01

• StarLink Corn Found in Morningstar Corn Dogs  - AP 8mar01

• EPA: StarLink Altered animal feed must pass human standard  -  Boston Globe 8mar01

• StarLink Corn Weighs on U.S. Farmers  - Reuters 8mar01

• StarLink - U.S. Will Buy Back 400,000 Bags of Corn Seed  - Washington Post 8mar01

• U.S. to Buy Back Contaminated Corn $20 Million  - Reuters 8mar01

• Genetic Tinkering Is Found to Extend Roundworms' Lives - Reuters 8mar01

• Human Cloning Bid Stirs Experts' Anger  -  Washington Post 7mar01

• Gene Research Finds New Use in Agricultural Breeding  -  NYT  7mar01

• Foot and Mouth Disease transgenic edible Vaccines: Solution or Problem  - Prof. Joe Cummins 6mar01

• Gene Research Finds New Use in Agricultural Breeding  -  New York Times 6mar01

• Herbicide-Resistant Weed Found In Ohio County -  AgAnswers / Purdue 6mar01

• Paradigm Genetics Exceeds 4th Milestone In Monsanto Pact  - DJN 6mar01

• Starbuck's Campaign Taking the GE Food Fight Directly to the US Marketplace! - Biodemocracy News OCA 5mar01

• GE Bugs Begin Creeping From Labs  -  AP 5mar01

• Scientists create killer moth to control pests  -  Guardian UK 5mar01

• The Great Yellow Hype (Golden Rice) - Michael Pollan / New York Times 4mar01

• A New Urgency in the Race for Blood Substitutes  -  NYT 4mar01

• Ministers admit GM trials are too soon for [UK] farms  -  Independent UK 2mar01

• Aventis Reports Profit Rose 64% in 2000; Confirms Plans to Divest Agriculture Unit  - WSJ 2mar01

• Biotech Corn-Seed Traces Are Detected In Seed Intended for Spring Planting Jill Carroll / WSJ 2mar01

• New Worries of Planting Altered Corn  -  NYT 2mar00

• StarLink Altered Corn Found in Seed  - AP 2mar01

• Emerging Technologies Biochips Mate Silicon with Proteins  - Semiconductor International Mar01

• Concentration and Technology in Agricultural Input Industries - USDA Agriculture Information Bulletin Mar01

• Biotech -- The Basics Final Part  -  Rachel #719 1mar01

• StarLink Déjà Vu All Over Again  - Washington Post 1mar01

• StarLink Contaminates Human Food . . . Again  - AP 1mar01

• Infecting Skills of HIV and Ebola Could be Harnessed to Smuggle Genes into Diseased Lungs  - New Scientist 1mar01

• Fast-track fruit Orange trees that bear fruit in just one year are created in Spain  - New Scientist 1mar01

• EPA Analysis of Bt Corn Flawed  - PAN 1mar01

• Stem Cells: Loose Change - The Economist 1mar01

• Industry Takes Another Look at Biomass New Policies Encourage Growth Of Technology  - GEN 1mar01

• Blue revolution on the horizon as scientists develop genetically engineered fish  - The Campaign Reporter Mar01

• Cloned Human  Mitochondria in human offspring derived from ooplasmic transplantation  - Human Reproduction Mar01

• Acceleration of potato tuber sprouting by the expression of a bacterial pyrophosphatase - Nature Biotechnology Mar01

• Ecology of Transgenic Crops Genetically   - American Scientist Mar/Apr01

• Bayer Joins Race to Develop Genetically Modified Plants  -  Handelsblatt (Germany) 28feb01

• UK Govt Unveils Details Of Biotech Beet, Rapeseed Trials  - DJN 28feb01

• Suit Alleges Genentech Cover-Up  -  SFC 27feb01

• Good For the Farmer? - Gary Goldberg, CEO / American Corn Growers Association

• Asthma Gene Find Spells Profit - Boston Globe 26feb01

• Scientists Planning Computerized Drug Design Bioinformatics works behind scenes  -  Boston Globe 26feb01

• Moth-Jellyfish Release Planned for Summer  (includes regulatory timeline, application & assessment) -  AP 24feb01

• USDA APHIS Regulation of Transgenic Arthropods  (and other transgenic invertebrates) 24feb01

• GM soya ban good for UK  - Farmers Weekly letters 23feb01

• Dyslexia: Reading Minds  -  Economist 22feb01

• US Tightens Japan-Bound Corn Tests  - AP 21feb01

• Bush may hire Biotech Coordinator  -  Boston Globe 21feb01

• Philippines Bans GM Biotech Research  - Manila Times 20feb01

• The False Promise of Genetically Engineered Rice  -  Manila Times 20feb01

• Human Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine Surprisingly low number of genes raises big questions  -  SFC 19feb01

• Reaping a Biotech Blunder [StarLink] Fortune 19feb01

• Victory for our 'name GM sites' campaign  -  Independent UK 18feb01

• Ethical, safety issues arise as scientists try to Bioengineer Better Food Animals  - SFC 18feb01

• Eating Cauliflower Mosaic Virus infected vegetables Not Proof CaMV Promoter in GM Crops is Safe - Prof. Joe Cummins / ISIS 18feb01

• Genome Timeline  -  Science 16fe01

• Trader Joe's Line of Bread Mix Has Bioengineered Corn  -  SF Chronicle 16feb01

• Biotech -- The Basics Part 3  - Rachel #718 15feb01

• Pollen flow between herbicide tolerant canola (Brassica napus) is the cause of multiple resistant canola volunteers  - WSSA Abstracts 2000

• EU Approves Strict New Rules For Genetically Modified Crops  -  WSJ 15feb01

• European Parliament Approves Rules for Biotech Foods, Seeds  -  New York Times 15feb01

• Research Suggests Breeding Works as Well as Genetic Engineering  - LA Times 15feb01

• Fish: Traditional Domestication of Livestock More Effective Than Genetic Modification  - New Scientist 14feb01

• Setback for GM Fish  -  BBC 14feb01

• GM Cotton Fails in Indonesia  - ISIS 14feb01

• Nature Beats Nurture  -  London Times 13feb01

• Europe debates tougher rules for genetically modified food  -  AP 13feb01

• National Corn Growers Association Warns Farmers to Avoid Contaminating with Biotech Corn  -  AP 13feb01

• Of Genomes And Governments  - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 13feb01

• GE Fantasy Shattered by Human Genome Project  - Natural Law Party Wessex 13feb01

• Proteins -- Not Genes -- Could Be Clue To Human Complexity, Disease, Cures  -  Wall Street Journal 13feb01

• Of Genomes And Governments  -  Wall Street Journal 13feb01

• No Easy Link Between Genes, Behavior DNA Studies Dash Quest for Easy Answers  - SFC 13feb01

• Murky Gene Pool Unexpected Shallowness Won't Simplify Drug Development  -  SFC 13feb01

• Watson  Sees Fruits of Labor  - Washington Post 13feb01

• Cracking the DNA Code - Editorial / SFC 13feb01

• Sonoma State Studies Sequencing  -  SFC 13feb01

• Why You Can't Judge a Man by his Genes  - Regarding the Completed Genome Project -  London Times 12feb01

• Burlington Northern drops genetic testing of employees  - AP 12feb01

• Baby, It's You! And You, And You...   - Time 12feb01

• BIO 2001 Preliminary Program as of 12feb01

• Biotech Crop Debate Focuses on Poor Countries  -  New York Times 12feb01

• Gene map creates New Frontier for Discrimination   -  AP 11 feb01

• Genome Discovery -  Genetic Blueprint Contains Far Fewer Genes - DNA's Importance Downplayed  -  SFC 11feb01    

• Better Beef Through Biotech Safeway Forms Partnerships to Develop Genetic Tests - SFC 11feb01

• Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States  -  British Medical Journal 10feb01 

• Rockefeller Foundation says GM rice promoters 'have gone too far'  -  Guardian (UK) 10feb01

• Potrykus Responds to Greenpeace Criticism of 'Golden Rice' - Ingo Potrykus 9feb01

• Canadian Royal Society Urges More Caution over GM Crops -  Independent UK 9feb01

• First GM insect release set to get go-ahead  - Jellyfish/Moth - BBC 9feb01

• Fool's Golden Rice  - Greenpeace 9feb01

• Colorado state senator introduces bill to label genetically modified foods  - Cropchoice Opinion 9feb01

• North Dakota, Montana Consider Moratoriums on Roundup Ready Wheat  - Cropchoice News 9feb01

• Transgenic Crops in Natural Habitats (Did NOT Perform Better)  - Nature 8feb01

• Genetically modified weaklings: GM crop plants are less weed-like than weedy  - Economist 8feb01

• New Zealand Royal Commission of Inquiry on Genetic Modification Transcript of Proceedings  8feb01

• Biotech The Basics Part 2  -  Rachel's #717 6feb01

• Monsanto CEO Outlines Strategy For Growth  - Monsanto Press Release 6feb01

• Monsanto 2001 Strategy Hendrik Verfaillie's Presentation At Fifth Annual AgChemicals/AgBiotechnology Conference  - Monsanto  6feb01

• Superweeds Invade Farm Fields; Canola plants are almost Pesticide-Proof  - The Ottawa Citizen 6feb01

• Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel Raises Serious Questions About the Regulation of GM Food  -  Press Release and Executive Summary 5feb01

• Monsanto beanfeast as BSE crisis bites: Huge Increase in Imported GM Soya  -  Independent UK 4feb01

• Breaking the rules Almost a third of US farmers broke rules for planting GM maize last year  - New Scientist 3feb01

• Cracking the FDA Code:      BIO Wants Less Regulations -  WSJ 2feb01

• Effect of feed processing conditions on DNA fragmentation  - A. Ryan, M.W. Ho (undated)

• Marker Assisted Plant Breeding  - Policy Paper The Soil Association United Kingdom 3feb01

• Is the Genome the Secular Equivalent of the Soul? - Science 2feb01

• Hawking and Collins Foresee Applications for Genetic Knowledge  - GEN 1feb01

• Campaigning for organic food and farming and sustainable forestry -- Marker Assisted Plant Breeding - Policy Paper Soil Assoc UK 1feb01

• Gene Patent Guidelines "Magna Carta" Of Biotechnology  -  GEN 1feb01

• BIO Urges Bush To Continue Moratorium On Cloning Human Beings  - BIO 1feb01

• Farmers, Foreign Markets Send Negative Signals on Roundup Ready Wheat  - Cropchoice 1feb01

• 'Golden Rice’ Arrives in Asia at IRRI for Testing   - Press Release by International Rice Research Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation and Syngenta AG Feb00

• Scientists identify gene that can raise prostate cancer risk  -  AP 31jan01

• Genetic transformation of HeLa cells by Agrobacterium  - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 30jan01

• Bosnia Rejects "Humanitarian" GM Corn From U.S.  - Agence France Presse 30jan01

• Action Alert !    FDA's Bogus Proposed Rules on GE Foods  - Organic Consumers Association 30jan01

• Biotech -- The Basics Part 1  - Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly News #716  30jan01

• Brazil Gives French Activist 24 Hours To Leave Country  - AP 29jan01

• Monsanto May Sue Activists For Destroying Brazil Soy Crop  - DJN  29jan01

• Biotechnology Battles Chemical Industry in Pesticide Market  -  SFC  29jan01

• A New Kind of Fish Story: The Coming of Biotech Animals  -  FDA Consumer Magazine Jan/Feb01

• Plans to Clone Humans Italian made announcement with U.S. cohort - LAT  28jan01

• Space Seeds in China - A Miracle or Ecological Disaster?  -   ENS 27jan01

• Asda Supermarket UK aims for GM-free produce  -  London Independent 26jan01

• Bioengineered Bugs Stir Dreams Of Scientists; Will They Fly? -  WSJ 26jan01

• Gene-Therapy Death Linked To Immune System's Reaction to Protein  - AP 26jan01

• Syngenta Sequences the Genome of Rice, But Access to the Data Will Be Restricted  -  WSJ 26jan01

• Meat prices may soar in GM food Row -  The Telegraph (London) 26jan01

• Wal-Mart UK Subsidiary Asda plans to go GM free  - BBC 26jan01

• What is in the Future for GM Foods in the UK?  - Nutrition and Food Science 2001

• Dan Glickman, Outgoing USDA Secretary's Confession "They made me do it." -  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 25jan01

• Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle  -   NYT 25jan01

• German government shelves research program on GM crops due to mad cow worries  -  AP 25jan01

• Action Alert!     FDA Fails To Require Labeling of GE Foods  -  Food First 25jan01

• Monkey Business is Serious Business  - Editorial / South Bend Tribune (Indiana) 25jan01

• Biotech Wheat Bill Creates Problem (Montana) -  Billings Gazette 25jan01

• Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle  - NY Times 25jan01

• Aventis Pays Millions for StarLink Corn Debacle  - ENS 24jan01

• America's Food Safety Crisis News & Analysis on GE, Factory Farming, & Organics - BioDemocracy News #31 24jan01

• Inform Public about Altered Foods  - Editorial / Austin American-Statesman 23jan01

• Madagascar Rice Trials Lead to Agricultural Revolution: New Methods Break with Centuries of Tradition  -  Financial Times 23jan01

• Modified Mouse Virus Sounds Bio-Warfare Alarm Similar Process in Humans Could be Deadly  - NYT 23jan01

• Scientists Warn of Deadly Mouse Virus  - AP 23jan01

• New Patent Guidelines Suit Biotech Innovators Exclusive rights harder to get now  - BioWorld Today 22jan01

• Embattled Bioengineers Out to Prove They're the Good Guys Scientific world split on biotech food - SFC 22jan01

• Genentech Raids Stanford Lab New Research Chief Coming From Academia  -  SFC 22jan01

• Double Mammy - Chronicle of the Future Undated

• Gene-Altered Monkey Could Suffer  - Letter to the Editor SFC 19jan01

• ANDi :  A tiny primate with a gene from a jellyfish raises scientists' hopes--and some serious ethical questions - Time 19jan01

• Guidance for Industry Voluntary Labeling Indicating Whether Foods Have or Have Not Been Developed Using Bioengineering Draft Guidance - FDA 19Jan01

• FDA Rejects Call to Label Genetically Engineered Foods or Test for Safety New Rules Will Restrict Labeling of Non-GE Foods  - Food First 18jan01

• Public Disclosure of Certain Data and Information Related to Human Gene Therapy or Xenotransplantation - FedReg 18jan01

• FDA Draft Guidance for Industry on Voluntary Labeling  - Federal Register 18jan01  ( Comments due 20feb01) 

• Premarket Notice Concerning Bioengineered Foods  - FDA, HHS Proposed Rule 18jan01

• Bill Prohibiting Human Cloning Introduced in Texas  - Genetic Crossroads Issue 14 18jan01

• Engineered Food Rules Proposed  -  SFC 18jan01

• How About Glow-in-the-Dark Birthday Cake? -  International Herald Tribune 18jan01

• "Pharming" Cows Provide Vital Proteins Turning Milk into Medicine -  AP 17jan01

• Disabled People Speak on the New Genetics - DPI Europe Position Statement on Bioethics and Human Rights 17jan01

• FDA Issues Rules For New Biotech Foods, Voluntary Guides - AP 17jan01

• Plant-Incorporated Protectant (PIP) Rules Issued - Press Release EPA 17jan01

• US regulators refuse to require labels for bio-foods  - Reuters 17jan01

• FDA New Proposal on GE Foods 1st Draft Analysis -  Joseph Mendelson, Legal Director Center for Food Safety 17jan01

• Plant DNA in Farm Animals: a collaborative case-study investigating cattle and chicken fed recombinant plant material  - European Food Research and Technology 16jan01

• Monsanto's GM Bread heads for American shelves, EU Trade Negotiators Prepare For Labelling Battle  -  London Independent 15jan01

• Conflict looms over EU plans to label genetically modified foods imports -  London Independent 15jan01

• Religious Leaders Question Research  -  SFC 15jan01

• StarLink  Corn Discovered in Beer Product  - AP 13jan01

• France stunned as chef rejects pleasures of flesh Alain Passard  -  Telegraph (London) 13jan01

• Anger over 'green' agriculture order to combat BSE -  Telegraph (London) 13jan01 

• Are GMOs essential for effective sustainable agriculture in a hungry world?  -  Mark Griffiths BSc FRICS FAAV 12jan01

• Cloned Ox (Guar) Dies of Disease Shortly After Birth - AP 12jan01

• Rockefeller Foundation Report Damns US regulation of biotech foods - Reuters Health 12jan01 (See "Breeding Distrust" 11jan01 below))

• Rockefeller Foundation Report Damns  FDA  Regulation of Biotech Foods  - Reuters Health 12jan01

• First Genetically Altered Primate Is Produced by Oregon Scientists -  WSJ 12jan01

• First Gene-Altered Monkey Hailed as Research Tool Opponents concerned about ethical issues -  SFC 12jan01

• Purdue seeks $9 million for agricultural genetic research  - AP 12jan01

• Breeding Distrust: An Assessment and Recommendations for Improving the Regulation of Plant Derived Genetically Modified Foods -  CFA 11jan0

• U.S. Farmers to Cut Genetically Modified Crops Only Slightly  - Reuters 11jan01

• Illinois Asks Dealers Not to Sell A Controversial Monsanto Seed -  WSJ 11jan01

• GMO Link To Decline In US Cotton Quality Feared  -  Reuters 11jan01

• Decoding the Genome  - Ralph Brave / Salon 9jan01