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http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31328-2000May18.html

Europe Again in Food Flap

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43122-2000Jan13.html

Monkey Cloning Feat Could Aid Disease Research

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60473-2000Feb1.html

More Diverted Research Funds Found, CDC Misleads Congress

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64453-2000May24.ht....

University of Pennsylvania will no longer use humans for experiments

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/A43131-1999Dec10.html

Gene Therapy Firms Resist Publicity: "Adverse events are, by definition, trade secrets."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/A51427-2000Jan30.html

Gene Test Deaths Not Reported Promptly

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a57641-2000feb1.htm

Frito-Lay Accused of Helping Anti-Biotech Activists

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-11/06/095l-110699-idx.html

Scientists Reminded To Report Deaths – FDA Responds to Gene Therapy Flap

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/11/158l-121199-idx.html

Panel Keeps U.S. Judges' Investment Files Secret

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38824-1999Nov23.html

Article: Biotech Crops Spur Warning

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/daily/aug99/gmfood15.htm

Article: "Biotech Food Raises a Crop of Questions"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/daily/june99/blood06.htm

U.S. Blood Donations Decline By Avram Goldstein, Washington Post

http://www.wdm.org

World Development Movement: The Battle for International Rules on GMOs

http://www.wdm.org.uk

The World Development Movement

http://www.wdm.org.uk/action/gmo.htm

Views from the Third World on GM crops

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe

Words of warning; When scientists talk of 'absence of evidence' of risk, take cover. Password protected -- need to register first

http://www.web.net/~fbcja

FALLS BROOK CENTRE, 125 South Knowlesville Road, Knowlesville, New Brunswick, Canada E7L 1B1

http://www.webackbiotech.com

To protect and defend Frankenfoods, Novartis has launched a new website (Pro-GE!)

http://www.webactive.com/webactive/content/cspin981127.html

Monsanto and Media Progaganda Radio Show

http://webbook.nist.gov

Look up chemicals and get the CAS number (Chemical Abstracts Service, registry number)

http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/y/1999/whichmarker/index.htm

Which DNA Marker for Which Purpose? Final compendium of the research project 'Development, optimisation and validation of molecular tools for assessment of biodiversity in forest trees' - European Union DGXII Biotechnology FW IV Research Programme - 1999

http://www.weeds.iastate.edu/mgmnt/qtr98-4/roundupfuture.htm.

Monsanto placed print ads telling farmers Roundup was "the only weed control you'll ever need." You can see one of these 1998 ads on the Iowa State University Herbicide Ad "Hall of Shame" web site

http://www.weeds.iastate.edu/weednews/roundupcottonad.htm.

Some weeds are developing resistance to Roundup -- notably hemp weed or pig weed -- so Roundup is becoming less effective, requiring additional measures for weed control, raising costs for those relying on Roundup Ready

http://www.wefarm.net/board/Sustainable/messages/10017.shtml#0

FDA Taken To Court By Its Own Scientists

http://www.wharfe.demon.co.uk/bio.htm

David Brear's monthly review of GM news in Britain. The Wild Flower Page

http://www.wharfe.demon.co.uk/GM_Jun.doc

More about GM environmental risks. Try also GM_Apr.doc, GM_May.doc and so on. Needs MS Word (viewer).

http://www.wharfe.demon.co.uk/wildflwr.htm

The Wild Flower Page

http://www.wharfe.demon.co.uk/news1.htm

monthly review of wildlife conservation in Britain

www.wheatsville.com

Wheatsville Food coop; Jim Ellinger (512) 478-2667 jimsback@io.com (Related to Austin TX Anti-GE resolution)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB

US President's Office: Office of Management & Budget

http://www.who.int/infectious-disease-report/2000

See World Health Organization (WHO), OVERCOMING ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE (Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2000)

http://www.who.it/Emissues/GMO/gmorpt.htm

Release of Genetically Modified Organisms in the environment: is it a health hazard?" The report from the WHO/EURO-ANPA Seminar held at the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome Division, Rome

http://www.wholefoods.com

Margaret Wittenberg, Communications Director, Quality Assurance, Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas

http://www.whybiotech.com

Pro-GE: Leading biotech seed companies

http://www.whytakeda

Why Take DA ? (DA=Direct Action) .. but taking direct action can be one of the most wonderful and liberating experiences. However, some people can be traumatised by the event.

http://www.wildflwr.freeserve.co.uk/wildflwr.htm

The Wild Flower Page

http://www.wildflwr.freeserve.co.uk/news1.htm

the monthly review of wildlife conservation in Britain

http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/index.html

The World Intellectual Property Organisation has a Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA) on its website. The CLEA contains a full-text database of national intellectual property legislation, as well as international treaties, in English, French and Spanish. The laws of some 35 countries are presently covered.

http://wire.ap.org/APnews/main_search.html?SEARCHSTRING=MEAT&SEAR....

Organic Cropland Doubled in 1990s (US)

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35376,00.html?tw=wn2000....

Biotechs Getting Cold Feet (Business Monday)

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36492,00.html

Vocal GM protests loom in Italy

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33534,00.html?tw=wn20000110

Genome Map Near Completion

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34289,00.html

Patients May Have Been Given HIV

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34877,00.html

EU Halts Franken Crops

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35266,00.html?tw=wn20....

Researchers in Toronto have found the gene that allows one of most common and highly contagious cold viruses to trigger deadly heart disease

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35283,00.html?tw=wn20....

Isolating the Meningitis Gene: can any good come out of these sequences?

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36151,00.html?tw=wn20....

Italy to Scientists: No GM Gelato

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36335,00.html?tw=wn20....

Despite negative market response of late, experts say things are still looking up for biotech

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37088,00.html?tw=wn20....

Percy Schmeiser: A Canadian farmer battles agribusiness giant Monsanto over the use of the company's rape oil seed. The case reveals pitfalls associated with controlling patented, genetically engineered technology. From the Environment News Service.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38646,00.html?tw=wn20....

Scientists have genetically modified tomatoes so that they ripen more slowly and produce twice the amount of an antioxidant that can help prevent blindness and cancers. - and of course there are no side-effects

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41171,00.html?tw=wn20....

Researchers say the presence of one gene determines whether or not skin cancer will spread in people with tumors.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41225,00.html?tw=wn20....

Bayer AG and genomics company CuraGen will spend more than a billion dollars on a 15-year project to develop drugs for diabetes and obesity.

http://www.wisc.edu

University Of Wisconsin-Madison: Research on Molecular Barrier to lock out GE and foreign genes

http://www.wiz.uni-kassel.de/fsr/ger/studgr/arche/index.html

Arche GENoah, German GE activist group, Uni Kassel. German language.

http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/pbrown/index.htm

UK Nationwide Ban on GE-Food

http://womenshealth.medscape.com/jobson/MedTrib...logybrief1.html

High-Fat Diet Protects Brain After Stroke A Western diet, containing animal fat and protein, may help prevent loss of cognitive functioning and mental ability following a stroke.

http://www.woodmac.com

Wood Mackenzie will release a global review and forecast on GM seeds in January 2001 entitled, "Seeding Growth."

http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/forum_poverty.html

For more information on the e-conference, including a full archive of contributions

http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty

For more general background on the WDR (World Development Reports)

http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/newsl/newsl

Newsletter Update on WDR (World Development Report)2000/01, No. 1, January 1999

http://www.worldwatch.org

World Watch Intitute and Magazine: Some food facts.

http://www.worldwatch.org/biotech/bhtest.html

Testimony from Senate Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion at the Hearing on “The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Nations”

http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html

World Watch Intitute and Magazine: Some food facts.

http://www.worldwildlife.org

World Wildlife Fund, 1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, N.W. P.O. Box 97180, Washington, DC 20077-7180

http://www.wri.org/wri/wri.html

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE The Washington-based institute has published a very useful overall introduction to the issues surrounding bioprospecting.

http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/pbrown/index.htm

Dr Aarpad Pusztai interview with GM-FREE magazine

http://www.wto.org

The WTO itself is supposedly streaming the plenary sessions through their website

http://www.wto.org/wto/about/meets.htm

World Trade Organisation: meeting schedule

http://www.wtowatch.org

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
2105 First Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404 USA
612-870-3400 (phone) 612-870-4846 (fax)

http://www.wwf-uk.org/news/news108.htm

An Overview of GM Technology in the Forest Sector. - a scoping study for WWF-UK and WWF International by Rachel Asante Owusu

http://www.wwf.ca

WWF's report, Do Genetically Engineered Crops Reduce Pesticide Use?

http://www.wwfcanada.org/news-room/GE%20&%20Pesticides.PDF

'more friendly to the environment' has been a major selling argument, which in practice has not turned out to be true according to recent studies.

http://www1.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/090600/detOPI01.htm

Neem tree patents: an immodest victory

http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/9%2D99pro.htm

Natl.Institue of Health: Minutes of RAC meeting, 5 September 1999

http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/patterson2-00.pdf

Testimony of A. Patterson,

http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/braziltech30.....

Battle over genetically modified food extends to Brazil