Genetically Manipulated Food News-- News Index 97/98

Field Testing Dangerous Genetically Engineered Crops in Scotland
Is the Royal Society helping GE?
GE Lectins in Crops: why do They Threaten Humans and the Environment?
New Trait Surfaces in Altered Plant
New Study Backs Up Biotech Fears
Call For Moratorium On Xenotransplants
Clinton leant on Blair to allow modified foods
Insurance Companies Fear Because Of Genetic Engineering
British Schools Cut Out Genetically Modified Foods
Prince Charles Enters Genetic Engineering Debate
AAAS Scientists Warn of Biotech Risks
rBGH Report Suppressed
Mississippi Farmers Receive $1.9 million for Biotech Crop Losses.
Seventy-Five percent of the British Oppose Biotech Crops
Video: Hazards Of Bovine Growth Hormone (bgh) In Milk
GE - Of the top 100 economies 51 are multinational companies, the rest are countries.
School's ban on genetic food.
Food Key To Democrats' Environment Policy

2 September 98

From Agent Orange to tampered genes: Monsanto's life cycle.
Research: UK College Refuses To Return Fungi
UK Issues Guidelines On Xenotransplant Trials
Vegetarian Society Symbol To Exclude Genetically Modified Food
Humans Risk Deadly Virus From Pig Organs
Greenpeace reveals Monsanto's uncontrolled field test in Eastern Europe
Expression of the human milk protein beta-casein in transgenic potato plants.
Latin America: Patents, A New Form Of Colonialism?
GM Foods Need Better Labelling
Genetic label 'con to trick customers'
Pigs Make Great Organ Donors, But ....

19 August 98

Immune System Damage In Tests
Mississippi Seed Arbitration Council Rules Against Monsanto
Genetically Modified Spuds Deemed Risky: Problems in Rats
Great Media Victory In Britain For Anti-gema Forces
More GE URLs for the WWW
We're All Just Guinea Pigs
Bees Make Honey From Genetically Altered Crops
India: Vigil Against Genetically Engineered Soyabeans
Genetics scientist suspended
Scientist's potato alert was false, laboratory admits
Danes Debate Safety Of Round Up Herbicide
Research Highlights Risk of using Viral Promoter Genes in New Foods
Monsanto Threatened TV Programme
Watch Those Beans
Give Us Back Our Precious Fungi, Thais Urge University
Add A Toxin To Potatoes And It's No Surprise They're Bad News
Do You Want Sour Cream With Your Vaccination?
Smoke Screen Around Fired Scientist
Scientists Worried By Modified Food Risks
Letters: Modified Food
Letters: Natural Defence
Letter: Another view of "Progressive" Evolution
Letter: Simplistic View
Letter: Labeling needed
Letter: More Pesticides and More Resistance
Gene Firm Tightens Grip On Food Chain

10 August 98

Genetically engineered foods debate sows seeds of discontent
African Scientists Condemn Monsanto's Latest Tactics and Call for European Support:
Dorset Farmers advised to avoid Genetically Modified Oilseed Rape
Labelling Petition Online
Biotechnology Morgan Stanley analyst Doug Lind 07/31/98
Open Letter to Monsanto's Robert Shapiro
Let Nature's Harvest Continue
US Children Used to Test Crop Genetic Engineering?
Gene Potatoes Damage Rats' Immune Systems

7 August 98

Sound fishy? Scientists eye fish-enhanced ice cream
Pig Livers May Be Used As Human Dialysis Machines
Trashing the crops
Fears Admitted On Genetically Modified Food
Plants Without Seeds Challenge Historic Farming Practices
Pollutants Blamed For Dual-sex Polar Bears
Canada: Biotech clampdown continues
France Imposes Moratorium on Biotech Crops
Monsanto Doses EU with Biotech Ad Blitz
Biotech Labelling Issue Stalls at Codex
A New Insecticidal Protein To Challenge The Bt Monopoly?
7,000 Farmers Denounce Wto-trips
UK: House of Commons has banned GE food from its restaurant
Don't Assume Your Bt is broken Because Borers Are Biting
Yet public still expected to eat it
Attention Owners of Birds! GE corn Stays in the Throat
Genetically Engineered Crops Breed Hardy Weeds
Genetic Crops Can Aid Superweeds, Claim Scientists

30 July 98

Why Refuge Will Not Work to Reduce Bt Resistance
Canadian Government Bureaucrats Reply to Comments on Canadian Biotechnology Strategy
USDA Goes Back To Drawing Board On Organic Rules
Al Gore urges France's Jospin to allow US corn sales
Gene Technology: Friend Or Foe?
UN Aid Agencies Slam Monsanto's Campaign
Bookmarks On Genetic Engineering For The Www
Organic farmer loses crop fight
UK: Public Funding For Cloning Resaerch Is Accelerating
GE-Free Liquid Lecithin Is Available In The US
Business Foes Of Biotech Crops Seek More Rules
Court decision throws seed trials into chaos
Canada: Food scientist silenced by FEDS
Update regarding Dr. Shiv Chopra Scientific Evaluator for Health Canada
The First "No GE Ingredients" Labeled Product In the US
Incredible edibles
India: Biotech Firms Sow Seeds Of Discord
Geneticists are using patents to own the mark they make
Genetic Engineering on Trees
Growth of Organic Foood Industry

22 July 98

Technological Responsibility: Agriculture, Biosafety, And Democracy
Health Canada Scientist Received Gag Order
Irish High Court Judicial Review Website
Monsanto `gobbling Up Food Industry', Say Green Campaigners
Grameen, Monsanto Sowing Seeds of Ruin?
Genetic food ban "FRANKENSTEIN"
Call For Independent Gm Crop Monitors
Ireland: Judgment reserved in challenge to EPA's consent to beet trials
Bucking U.S. Trend, Europe Blocks Gene-Altered Food
Forest Fragmentation Creating Genetic Bottleneck
Five Star Lift: Beware The Biological Century

16 July 98

Escape of genetically modified organisms 'would be disastrous'
Bees 'witnesses' In Row Over Genetic Food
Genetic Trials Win Crucial Ruling In Court
GPs Back Gene Inquiry
Monsanto Signs Up Third World Leaders For Adverts
Bio-diversity Bill Protects Bureaucrats And Not The Crops
Transgenic Corn Patent
UK: Action and Concern
French Confederation Paysanne Calls for GMO Destruction
USDA: The Final Count: 275,000 Against
Organic Field Crops: instability and an answer
Organic Livestock Standards Under Discussion
Internationaol Guardian: great article on GE (and Monsanto)
Farmers Weekly Article on GM Dangers
Monsanto buys UK plant breeder
Unilever Agrees Sale of Plant Breeding International to Monsanto
LA sues big tobacco over passive smoking
Pollution Changes Sexual Behaviour
Test Tube Trees Could Be Boost Timber Industry

14 July 98

Alert on gene crop threat to wildlife
Genetically altered crops 'could wipe out farmland
Relationship Between Government Advisers And Biotech Industry
GE Industrie's Advertising And Lobbying
Uniformity call on GM regulations.
False claims of GE research from US Universities
Clients still shun animal test firm.
Law backs whistle blowing while you work.
Monsanto and American Home Products Merger
Codex Report: No International GE Food Labelling
Migrane drug Maxalt (rizatriptam bensoate)
Brit crop experts linked to biotech firms
The Review Of Biotechnology

13 July 98

English Nature (EN) warns Government
FoE Calls for Government Genetic Advisors to be Sacked
Prince Philip warns against over-farming
Duke urges sustainable farming
US lags behind in spelling out food data to consumers
Japan To Adopt Certification System For Organic Product
Garbling the Seeds of the Future
Brit. calls for temp ban on GE plantings
Farmer calls for court ban on gene test crops
Mad Cow Disease, Part 1
Aspartame: Seizures and other Hazards
Another Informant On Aspartame, Name Removed. They Know Its A Poison!

7 July 98

British Organic Farmers Call For End of GE Experiments
Genetic Engineering Can Create Aggressive Plants
Reporters Fired Over Milk Hormone Story
Canada Denies Mouse Patent
Disappointing Biotech Crops
Biotech-Free Products Hot
Diseases Link to Gene Technology
Organic Farmer Fights for Rights
UK Retailers say no to GMOs
Genetics of Terminator
Some New Genetic Plumbing Tools
The Terminator (�Technology Protection System�)Patent US patent 5,723,765
Xenotransplantation in London Ontario
Monsanto Lead In Seeds Grows
Monsanto takes over Cargill Intl. Seed
Irish Court Case Begins
Researchers Develop Shortcut To Clone Cattle
Mycogen Wins Bt Patent Infringement Suit
Common Weakness Of The Organisms: Shikimate Pathway

1. July 1998

Government Faces Court Challenge Over "illegal" GE-crop Trial
GM Foods Face School Meals Ban.
Schools Cut Out Genetically Modified Foods
Key French Gene Crop Report To Have Wide Impact
Monsanto to buy Cargill foreign seed businesses
Health - Costa Rica: Agrochemicals Harm Banana Workers
National Union of Farmers (NFU),UK: Call For GM Crops Overview.
EU Convention Guarantees The End Of Secrecy??
UK: GM Ads Complaints.
Irish Court Case Preparations
UK: First Time Cancer Test For Embryo Raises Ethical Questions

26 June 1998

Prefers Genetically Modified Foods to be Clearly Labeled
Coming Soon To A Field Near You - A Field Of Genes
Blindness, Mad Cow Disease and Canola Oil
Monsanto`s Hormonal Milk Poses Serious Risks of Breast Cancer
Genetic Manipulation Firm Wants Test Sites Kept Secret
Monsanto Seeks World Policy On Gene-altered Food
Agribusiness Lobbying To Avoid Liability For GEMA Accidents
Hazards' Body Sought On Modified Foods
Genetically engineered oilseed rape (canola) (Good Overview)

22 June 1998

Fox In The Cow Barn
Scientists Warn GE Risks May Outweigh Benefits
The Swiss Referendum Outcome
Swiss Referendum On Genetic Engineering
Bavarian Referendum On Positive Labelling Failed
Experiment Crop Fed To Animals
GE Crops Jeopardize Organic Farm
Prince of Wales enters GE debate
Genetic Food Warning by Price Charles praised
Prince Is Backed In Attack On Modified Foodstuffs
A few Aspects and Thoughts about GE
Companies Get Tough On "seed Piracy"
Farm Group In Canada Demands Clarification On rGBH Review
Awareness Campaign: Your Food -- Your Choice!
US Doubles Gene Crop Use As Row Heats Up
Poll: Majority Want Genetic Crops Ban
Do You Want Your Vaccine To Be Boiled Or Mashed?
Monsanto Canada bying up Seed Company
Monsanto Cuts Australian INGARD Cotton Price
Monsanto Cited in Crop Losses
A Critique Of The Monsanto Briefing Notes on Roundup Ready Soya
Monsanto`s Hormonal Milk Poses Serious Risks of Breast Cancer
Austrian GE Maize Ban
Seventy Five Percent Of British Oppose GE Crops
Japan Co-ops Take Biofood Labeling In Own Hands
France May Decide To Block Gene-changed Crops
Fears that GE crop impasse could spark agri-trade war.
Warning About Food That Is Genetically Engineered
Scientific Facts about GE

6 June 1998

Landmark Lawsuit Challenges FDA Policy On GE Foods
EU Adopts Controversial Labelling Law For Gene Food
EU adopts controversial food labels
EU Listens to Consumers on Labelling Biotech Foods
Novel foods create novel dilemmas for trade partners
New Label Rules For Genetic Foods
Farmer Bars Crop Tests
Sterilizing Seeds
Swiss Hold Referendum About Ge
Switzerland: Genetic code of conduct:
Andean Farmers: Quinoa Patent Dropped
Food With Modified Genes Sold Unlabelled
GE News: Ottawa Citizen article on Codex Alimentarius
International News Conference
Lawsuit Challenges US Agency On Gene-altered Foods
Terminator" technology leads to widespread chemical pollution
Health Officials Trying To Kill Critical Parts Of Drug Report
What's in your food?
High-Tech Foods
Monsanto taken over by American Home Products
USA: EPA approves Bromoxynil on Transgenic Cotton

23 May 1998

GE - No Patents on Rice! No Patents on Life!
Biodiversity: Europe Was Warned Of Bio-piracy Dangers
Will Biotechnology Feed The Worlds Poor?
GE Foods --- how Shall They Be Labeled For International Trade?
What Is Codex Alimentarius?
Sample Letter from Dr. John Fagan
RESOLUTION to the Codex Committee on Food Labelling
Researchers Describe Their Engineered Cloned Calves
Japan: Kanematsu To Certify Food As Non-Genetically Engineered
Message to Codex Alimentarius
The Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business
Holstein Calves Cloned From Cells, Scientists Report
rBGH: Reporters Who Say They Were Silenced by TV Station Post Web Site (NYT)
U.S. warns EU of big trade row over genetic corn
Paris to decide on gene maize imports after debate

14. May 1998

UK: Iceland Foods Own Brands Don't Contain GE
Organic' Label Ruled Out For Biotech, Irradiated Food
Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Riskier Than Ever
Canada: Court rejects mouse patent
Patients Checked For Risk On Transplant From Pigs
GE Maize Kills Beneficial Insects
Getting Biotechnology Set to Hatch
UK: Sainsbury Claims GE Eliminated From Most Own-label Goods
UK: Organic Grower Seeks Ban On 'mutant' Maize.
US: HGS Applies For Patent On Menigitis Bacterium
Controversy Over Biotechnology
China Engineers Super Tomato With Fish Genes
Transgenic Pigs Sent Abroad For Experiments
Campaign To Label GE Food
Genetic Engineering will not Feed the World
Breast Cancer, rBGH and Milk
Anger as Europe votes to 'sell-off' genes
U.S. frustrated over exclusion at EU maize tenders
People need to know what they are eating
89% of Australians expect GE food to be labeled

30 April 1998

The Case Against Genetic Engineering
Steve Wilson: rBGH and the Fox TV Case
USDA Organic Decision Delayed
Monsanto Asks USDA to Delay Decision On Organic Crops
Irish EPA grants more GE field trials
Japan develops Cloned Eucalyptus Trees for Paper Production
EU to approve new gene maize/rapeseed on Wednesday
Concern Abounds About Growth of Genetically Engineered Foods
New, Improved Organic: Pleasures Of The Table
New Poll: 81% of Brits against Cloning Animals
Farm Aid: USDA's Organic Food Rules 'Assault on Family Farms'
New gene crops win official EU backing
Disappointing Biotech Crops
Questions and Answers about Milk and rBGH
Firm reveals cross-species transplant studies
Should we "fix" nature's genetic mistakes?
Plans to Reform EU Gene Law Draw Heavy Criticism
USDA Urged To Scrap Organic Rules
List of GM free soya suppliers (USA, Canada, Netherlands and UK)

16 April 1998

UK: Hundreds of GE crops found
EU To Approve Sale of Bio-Grains
Scientists Find Link Between Human Growth Hormone And Bone Quality In Mice
US chemical firm admits to PR errors
Scientists Link Gene Technology to Resurgence of Infectious Diseases of Infectious Diseases
Organic Farmers Fight USDA Plan
Leading GE Experts Discuss The Genomics Revolution
Does having a patent make genetics valid?
Problems with the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy (CBS) review
Food Facts from Worldwatch Institute
US Patent Stops Farmers From Collecting Seeds
Adverse effects of "human" insulin: GE technology

14 April 1998

Baby milk producers flout rules
A Letter To An Organic Farmer (by Prof. J. Cummins)
South African scientists plan "super cow" clone
Gene-japan To Keep Customer's DNA Upon Request
250 Million Investment In Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics
Patenting of DNA and Genome
New CJD (Creutzfeld-Jacob-Disease) Study Attacked As `illogical'
GE Crops Growing Near You

11 April 1998

Milk, rBGH And Cancer (The FOX TV case)
News Blackout On GE in USA
Health-Japan: No Genetically-altered Food Please
Monsanto 'Superfoods' and 'Wonder' Drugs
Want To Know More About Your Food?
Computer Model Tests 'Bt Corn'
Seed Piracy by Monsanto
Genetic test crop destroyed.
Squatters On Ge Release Plot
Field Trial Results Show Economics of Weed Control in Roundup Ready and Elite Soybeans
Monsanto Cautions Farmers to View Competitor's Roundup Ready Soybean Data
Misconceptions About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides And The Causes Of Cancer
Judges Influenced Over Environment?
Agrochemical Industry On New Tack to overcome the swing toward organic farming
Germline gene therapy 'must be spared excessive regulation'
Prestigious Medical Journal Opposes Ban On Human Cloning
Agrevo stops rape experimental cultivation in France

Freitag, 10. April 1998

Basta-Liberty (Glufosinate) Spells Birth Defects
Church dumps Monsanto Shares
Britain's Sugar Factories refuse GE Sugar Beet
Canada: Health scientists pressured to approve rBGH and other drugs
Milk with rBGH linked to Prostate Cancer
Genetic engineering sentment on NBC
Terminator' Seeds Threaten A Barren Future For Farmers
Panel may challenge planned U.S. organic rules
Monsanto uses Synthetic Genes
Evidence of Dangers of Monsanto's Roundup

5. April 1998

EU to weigh approval for new gene maize, rapeseed
USDA's Definition of Organic: Chock-full of natural nonsense
Monsanto's altered sugar beet is not sweet to Irish
Pharmaceutical Money Drives the Medical Profession
US plans would banish genuine organic produce
Unauthorized rapeseed lines in Swedish field test in 1997
Pope condemns excesses of genetic engineering
Swiss find Banned GE Corn
USA's Patent on New Genetic Technology Will Prevent Farmers from Saving Seed
Biotech Setback
GE - ICELAND supermarket (UK) bans GMOs from own brand products
Gene maize shipment returns to Netherlands
India Girds To Defend Its Biodiversity
Gene Therapy Trials: Suffer the children
Transgenic Crops: GMO Crop Surface To Double In 1998
Genetic Engineering: Scientists And Doctors Call For Moratorium
Is Modern Medicine Our Only Option?
Website Addresses (URLs)
Alternative Scientists Expose Genetic Engineering Risks
French Farmer's Defence Speech
French Farmer On Trial

4. April 1998

Biotech Bacteria Highlights Limitations of Risk Assessment
GE and Traditional Breeding Methods: A Technical Perspective
Scientists Warn That GE Food May Have Serious Consequences
Will GE crops deliver benefits to farmers? (Quotes of Prominent People)

3. March 1998

E-mail to Honest World Leaders
Address Honest World Leaders
Industry Payments to Congress/USDA
GE-Crops in Asia
GE -'Confidential' assessment for Monsanto
"Healthy" genetically engineered foods
Comment on "Healthy" GE food
Monsanto to pay cotton farmers
Prince Charles Openly Opposes GE Food
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Criterion For Decision
Brilliant Scottish Campaign
EU Examines possible illegal gene-maize Imports
Sabotaging Organic Standards
Dutch Government puts Ban on cloning
The Type of people at Monsanto
French Supermarket Chain LeClerc Demands Labeling of GE Food
Ireland: Delay urged in ' genetic' planting
Netherlands-Cloned Calves to be outlawed
Scientists create genetically engineered frog
Potatoes made to carry cholera vaccine

27 February 1998

Biotech industry reaps as it has sown
Food testing 'starved of resources'
Brown&Williamson still selling High-Nicotine Cigarettes
Nobel-prizewinning dramatist slams EU biotechnology patent Law
Will Irradiation Spook Consumers?
Weeds showing herbicide resistance
Ireland: Monsanto withdraws 5 of their trial sites
Public Symposium (Ireland) criticised as a Biased Exercise by Industry
Australia: International Biopiracy Allegations Refuted
Brazil's Illegal GE Soy
Monsanto's New Sweeter - Letter to the US Justice Department
What has to change if organic agriculture is to prosper? (by Prof. Joe Cummins)
Partial Victory in Oprah Winfrey's 'Food Disparagement' Case

19 February 1998

The 17 violations of the USDA proposed Organic Standard
Biopiracy of Indian chickpeas in Australia
Battle to protect plant patents after basmati rice 'hijack'
Monsanto sets swift pace for biotech
New strain of genetically altered wheat bred in China
Why Producers don't want GE labeld
Chemical Sensitivity: A new Mechanism of Disease?
Contradiction to Glickman and Monsanto Strategy

17 February 1998

Multi-National Companies want secret Agreement with Governments
Misuse of Codex Alimentarius
Glufosinate is sold under the names Basta, Finale and Liberty
Biodevastaion Conference Date Change
Revolving door between Monsanto and the White House
Campaign Infiltrated by GE Proponents
Organic Farmers Sue: "GMOs Interfering With Properties of Others"
CDC Investigation on aspartame
US Organic Standards: How to Win the Battle
My Opinion: Inside Information Leak Subterfuge
Comic Relief

16. February 1998

USDA hearings a farce?
Gene Transfer between Canola and related weeds (long scientific paper)
Herbicide glufosinate (Basta) causes birth defects (8 scientific papers)

14. February 1998

US-Natural Law Party to save Organic Standards
Monsanto's aspartame replacement Neotame
Dallas AP article on USDA Hearing
Report on the USDA Hearing in Austin, Texas
Scientists warned of human BSE in 1988
Gene-Engineered Anthrax: Is It a Weapon?
Crucial info for USDA Ames hearing
Letter to the Surgeon General of the US
Basta-Liberty the Nightmare of Genetic Engineering
Obesity Called a national epidemic

11. February 1998

Declaration of Physicians and Scientists Against G E Food
First Response of IFOAM to the US proposed Rules for Organic Production
Ireland: Monsanto has gone quiet
URLs for pamphlets
Proceedings of the Oprah Winfrey Process in Texas
There are still Humans at the USDA
Great News: GE Crop Stopped in the UK
Media Alert, Neotame, Info from Mission Possible Sweden
Letter to Dr. Friedman, Monsanto
The Neotame Formula

8 February 1998

Most important enviromental issue of our time
Robert Cohen on Monsanto's Questionable "Science"
Some Questions Raised by the Proposed USDA Organic Standards
Postcard in Organic magazine
USDA's Comment Period Extended
Prof. Philip James warns of "Frankenstein Foods"
Calls for EPA Plan to Slow Insect Resistance to Natural Pesticide
Trial in France to Focus on Genetically Altered Maize
Genetic Engineering: Technology or Cookery? by Prof. J. Clemens
New tomato keeps men healthy - with a bit of sauce on the side
Duped consumers swallow genetically altered food

7 February 1998

Monsanto's response to HARPER's magazine
Bio-Piracy: Australian Case Highlights Debate on Intellectual property
GE and World Hunger
Beneficial Insects Killed by Biotech Plants
Industry Reacts To Proposed Organic Rules
Canadians Demand Labeling of Biotech Foods
Herbicide Resistance Transferred to Weeds
Unapproved GE Sugar Beets Processed by Mistake
Thai Government Stops Biotech Cotton
How to Shop to Avoid Genetically Engineered Food
Physicians and Scientists Against Genetically Engineered Food
Local (South African) doctors 'set to clone humans'
Are third world countries being chosen as fertile ground for odious cloning process?

5 February 1998

Bayer on Shanghai Trial on Nifedipine -- and Response
Monsanto's Influence on the Missouri Botanical Gardens
GE Soja Scandal in Brazil
Organic Standards and Revoking Monsanto's Charter
Biotechnology and the Third World, by Richard Wolfson, PhD
TEN NEW Irish Sugar Beet Planting Trials?
Genetically Decaffeinated Coffee
COMING SOON: Wider Selection of GE Seedless Fruit
Testing for Genetic Manipulation

29 January 1998

Cow Eggs used to Clone other Mammals
Quotes from the novel "The Gold Bug Variations"
Oestrogen Pollution causing Sex Change
Europe Approves but Resists
Bt Toxin Kills Beneficial Insects
Ladybugs Threatened by Biotech Crops
Dutch Retail Chain found guilty of false Advertising
Farmyard Freaks: Beef, Pigs and Chickens
Biotech Cotton Failure
Japan Co-Op Begins Biotech Labeling
USA: Genetically engineered cotton suffers setback
Indonesia Could become GE dumping place
Drugs Factory down on the Pharm
Genetically Manipulated Organisms and Sewer Sludge in Food
Cenex Land O'Lakes to sell GE Rhizobium for alfalfa seed
Organic Standards At Risk (9 points)

22 January 1998

Genetic Discrimination: A Primer (Radio Interview)
Cuba attaining sustainable agriculture
Excellent news from Austria about GE
Cloned Cows May Carry Drugs in Milk
The Fallibility of Scientific Authorities

19 January 1998

Propaganda Strategy of Gen-Multis leaked out
Referendum about gentech labeling in Bavaria
Genetic Engineering Kings have an Uneding Appetite
Unpredictable Side Effects From GE Food
Bee Deaths raising Concern
Brazil's Secret: Crazy Tobacco
Arms race on the crop fields (Spiegel 2/88)
Monsanto aims to advertise safety of gene foods
Human cloning techniques in use.
Austria Develops it own GMO label
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Index (URL)
Monsanto URLs
Follow the Money (Science & Governments)

1 January 1998

Tryptophan Summary (by Prof. John Fagan)
USDA's Proposed National Organic Rule Destroys Confidence, Marketplace and Family Farm
Bacterium makes 'Alien' a 'cakewalk'
Can Pizza prevent cancer and ketchup cause heart risk?
What's wrong with GE food? (by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho)
Addendum: USDA and Organic Integrity
A Dangerous Race
Monsanto and IBM Announce Strategic Technology Alliance
Monsanto Deals
Genetically Engineered Vaccines
Organic? Industry is way ahead of Government
Applause is muted for new US guidelines on organic food

22 December 1997

Monsanto and Friends' Biotech Blunders and Disasters
US government currently formulating national organic regulations.
Urge EPA to Deny Tolerance for Bromoxynil on GE Cotton
New study on the spread of genetically altered traits in plants
Herbicide-resistant rape spreads its manipulation
Reminder: Words Are Very Important
Minister against Genetic Manipulations
After Dolly, meet Polly the therapeutic lamb
Russian centre cloned over 100 trans-gene sheep
Thailand: Govt. Passes Up Pest-free Cotton Plant
White House aide joining Monsanto
10,000 Canadians sign petition to label GE food
PANAMA: Indigenous People Fear Genetic Slavery
Re: Organic Food Rules

20 November 1997

Greenpeace on Legal Protection of Biotech Inventions
Prince Charles on GE
Canadians take action for Labeling GE Foods
GE Cotton Used in Medicine Poses Threat
Seeds of Discontent: Cotton Growers Say Strain Cuts Yields
GE penetration of the US-Market

5 November 1997

Ladybugs lay fewer eggs and live half as long on GE plants
Ladybug, Quickly Fly Away Home!
Doctors test 'human gene' pigs on patients
Ireland: Mainstream food 'culture' criticised
Biotech babes down to earth (Biotech stocks are worst investment) (UK)
Environmental threat: Call For a Spin Doctor
Monsanto's cotton gets the Mississippi blues
U.S. To Hold Bioengineering Seminars In Japan October 30, 1997
Biotechnology Myth

22 October. 1997

Civil groups want a halt to patenting on life
Norway Rejects Release of GE Production
Headless frog opens way for human organ factory
Cloning History: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead

17 October 1997

Japan Rejects GE-Modified Tomato
Giant Potato Produced in Germany
Scientists Identify Gene to Force Flowering in Plants
Growing Medicine on Trees
Firefly Genes Light Up Stanford Research Mice
GE Animals to produce donour organs for transplants
Pig viruses may transfer with organs

14 October 1997

Global Days of Action Against Genetic Engineering (2-16 October 1997)
Gene Enhancements' Thorny Ethical Traits (Washington Post)
Bookreview: Milk -- the Deadly Poison

9 October 1997

BST on the Brink
US Firms Team To Make Cloned Cattle, Human Milk
All Milk contains Human Proteins
Problems with Herbicide Tolerant Cotton in U.S.

4 October 1997

The Danger of Virus-Resistant Crops, by Prof. Joe Cummins
Brazil being pressured to segregate transgenic soy
The Protein Bug
Distrusting Aspartame

30 Sept. 1997

Europe resisting biotech crops
Grain Cartels Secretly Trading in Non-Genetically Engineered Crops
Consumers prepare for Second Global Days of Action Oct. 2-17
Roundup Ready: Unhappy Farmer
Brazil Says NO

24 September 1997

Genetically Engineered Bacteria Approved by EPA in USA
Co-op in Japan labels non-genetically engineered foods
Monsanto Strategy
Suppliers of non-Genetically Engineered Food
Aspartame Summary
Aspartame References

20 September 1997

Appeal of Dutch retail chain fails
16,000 Sign Petition Opposing GE Foods in UK
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused
Law suit against GE crops with BT filed

14 September 1997

Study to Identify Biotech Grains
Genetically Engineered Ginseng
Human Genetic Research
Transgenic Enzymes in Milk
Campaign Consumer Rights to Know
Summary of Concerns of Gen Manipulated Food

7 September 1997

New Types of GE Milk
Unreported Mad Cow Disease in Europe
Engineered Farm Animals
Monsanto Tackles Sceptics

30 August 1997

Norway Acts Against Genetically Modified Food
Genetically Identical Monkeys
Super-Tress
Patents Loophole and Human Genes
US Argic. Secretary Indicted for illegaly taking gifts

24 August 1997

Law Suit Clears Way for "Free From rBGH" Labels,
rBST/rBGH smuggling still under dispute in Canada,
Status of rBGH Approval in Canada,
Codex suspends rBGH decision,
Mad Cow Disease on TV in Canada,
Agribusiness is trying to use dubious new libel laws to control the national debate on food safety.
Farmers complain about Monsanto's GE Cotton
Mass Producing of Coloned Animals
Bees harmed by GE rapeseed
Fear of Plant Safety Carrying Viruses

13 August 1997