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Index of News 2000

24 December 2000

• More politics than science in food-safety concerns
• Letter to the Editor, Ottawa Citizen
• Oregon's Potato Crop
• Canada –- Saskatchewan Soon To Lead World In Organic Acreage
• GM FOods A Tough Trade; Potentially Rich Markets Reject Biotech Exports
• Ottawa Seminar (16 Feb.01): The impact of genetic engineering on food, people and the planet
• Pioneer postpones 6 hybrids for 2001 that aren't cleared in EU
• U.S.-E.U. Panel Urges Review of Biotech Foods
• Panel Backs Stronger Rules for Some Food
• StarLink found in U.S. corn set for Japan food use
• Allergy Fears Trigger Action on GM Maize
• Missouri demands $25 mln StarLink bond from Aventis
• Canada: Loblaws explores organic market
• Starlink Find Fuels Fresh Uncertainty in U.S. Corn
• Biotech News: Jan. 2001 issue of Alive

18 December 2000

• The Top 200; Who is in Charge?
• The Myth of HIPC debt relief
• CSIR (S.Africa) strikes bioprospecting deal with Diversa
• Shameless GM vitaman A fraud.
• The wealth of Nature; Indian Seed Prayer
• Concern over Proposed Planting of GM Sugarcane in KZN (Natal)
• Catholic Church calls for a moratorium on genetically engineered foods and crops
• BIOWATCH: RAFI Geno-type: Calendar of Calamities 2000

16 December 2000

• Canadian Farm Group Calls for Moratorium on GM Foods
• National Farmers Union (Canada) calls for Ban on Genetically Modified Foods
• Aventis to repay grain handlers for bio-corn
• Aventis offers reparation to Brazil soy farmers
• U.S. Science Panel Concerned StarLink Corn Allergenic
• Brazilian poultry producer fined for feeding GMO corn
• Revolving doors between Consumers' Association of Canada (CAC) and Monsanto
• Monsanto Contracts: To Sign or Not to Sign
• GM 'poison' allegation denied
• Class Action Suit Targets Aventis
• Percy Schmeiser in NZ interview
• Environmentalists Target Eastern Europe Tastes
• Scientific doubts about GM corn
• Testing Corn Affects Cheetos Supply
• Italian Minister Axes GMOs
• Gene-Altered Corn Changes Dynamics of Grain Industry
• StarLink "possibility" stalls trainload sale off the farm
• Soya Importer Announces its Intention to go Ge-free in France – UK Urged to Follow Suit.
• US FDA chief –Jury still out on StarLink corn safety
• Argentine GM policy endangers investment – Monsanto
• Global Meeting Defines Biosafety Measures
• Modified-Crop Studies Are Called Inconclusive
• Gardenburger Announces Move to Non-GE Soy: Decision Prompted By Consumer Preference
• Moves Against Penn Scientist
• Dolly creators to breed modified chickens to fight cancer
• USA: Time has come to assess full impact of StarLink

9 December 2000

• GM cross-pollination creates more herbicide-resistant plants
• International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources
• URLs: Views from the Third World on GM crops.
• Wrapping It Up: Pharming (NL) to Acquire ProBio(US)
• BIOWATCH: Nestle: Hunger and GMO development propaganda
• USA update: Farm exports dive
• USDA says StarLink has "significant" impact on corn exports
• Some Classic GM Farming Quotes
• South African GM Industry Smears Organic Food in Press.
• Right Wing Clique Behind Organic Attacks
• UN FAO report exposes anti-organic propaganda.

6 December 2000

• The Lurid Soil Bacterium Klebsiella planticola
• URLs about Honey, Weeds and Bees!
• URL to good scientific critique of GM
• Canola Oil food or ? (on Fats and Health)
• The Guardian on 'contrite' Monsanto
• EU: Soya trade war expected between EU and US following meat and bone meal ban
• Learning How To Amplify Genes
• Monsanto plant defensins
• Substantial Equivalence Not At All
• Re: Substantial Equivalence (Aflatoxins)
• Patent on amimals with human body parts
• Panel Says StarLink May Have Triggered Allergies

4 December 2000

• Biotech News: December 2000 issue of Alive
• Company Says Tracing Problem Corn May Take Weeks
• Canada: Consumers Urged to Take Action on GMOs
• Canadian meat: Something to chew on Monday
• Corn Growers Tell EPA: Don't Rush to Judgment on StarLink Corn
• Nothing Trivial In Threat To The Environment
• Aventis sale of bio-crop unit could hurt farmers-lawmaker
• Interview-more Us Firms Seen Adopting Bio-food Labels
• UK: NLP Asks Government to Introduce Natural and Healthy Alternatives
• Canada: Dozens claim GM corn made them ill (CBC)
• US: 44 Americans Claim Starlink Corn Made Them Ill
• StarLink corn impacts continue like ripples in a pond
• USDA says reviewing Aventis conduct in bio-corn flap
• US: Plan for Use of Bioengineered Corn in Food Is Disputed
• ABC NEWS Interview: Hardships Caused by GE Corn to Iowa Farmers
• Seed Industry pushes USDA to approve GE Corn for human consumption
• Aventis will provide test kits to seed dealers-USDA
• What's The Buzz?: A Leading Bee Scientist Gets a Government Runaround
• Plan For Use of Bioengineered Corn in Food is Disputed
• Negligence Suit Is Filed Over Altered Corn

30 November 2000

• Monsanto Poisons Columbia: US 'War On Drugs'
• Yield problems with RR soybeans under dry conditions
• Sierra Club FINAL comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club TECHNICAL comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club Questions on the Assessment of Scientific Information (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club REFERENCES to comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• The strategy of Flooding with useless Research
• Alliance for Bio-Integrity statement re: Starlink corn

25 November 2000

• India Says No to Genetically Modified Food
• S/Afica: Conference wants moratorium on genetically modified foods
• WTO: Seedy Squabble in Switzerland
• Forbes Magazine: "Corporate Saboteurs go mainstream"
• EPA may be wrong judging toxicity of GE food
• URL: Insanex managed to provoke EuropaBio to the extend of legal threats
• Xenotransplantation: New company for humanized pigs
• US: Legal issues of biotech questioned
• Credit Suisse warnes: Time is running out for the biotech industry
• resistance to Bt in bollworm
• Biotech report dubbed 'worthless'
• NZ: Comstock and The Life(r) SciencesA PRgang
• Sheep growth accelerated by GE lupins
• cloned animals need fuller study

23 November 2000

• The Success of Being Dangerous; Resisting Free Trade and Investment Regimes.
• BIOWATCH: Original UK Doc.: Monsanto's Bt cotton & Gonorrhoea
• BIOWATCH: McDonald's GM-fed meat ban spreads to UK
• Permaculture An Integrated Approach To Sustainable Development
• Pope John Paul II: "Tyrants in charge of our food"
• BIOWATCH: Economists anticipate ag-biotech corporate rejection
• Life science: a dying breed?
• Brazilian Newsletter Transgenics nº3
• TWN information service on biosafety # 5
• GM-food tests 'inadequate'
• GM foods and denial of rights and choices
• GE Humour from UK; Fowl play triumphs in dockside stunt.

22 November 2000

• Biotechnology Concerns in Quandary Over Drug Giants
• Many Americans say stop planting gene-altered crops
• Recalled Corn Product List Released
• Fox/BGH Jury Verdict Upheld!
• GM maize is found in tortilla snacks
• Company Recalls Tortillas
• Korea Moves Against Starlink
• Hopes dim for quick fix to StarLink crisis
• British Stores Warned of GM Food Fines
• Australia: States free to ban GM crops
• Aventis financial officer: Starlink cleanup cost "significantly below $1 billion"
• U.S. corn sales to Japan down, StarLink blamed
• StarLink in Canada: Canadians at Risk
• SOUTH KOREA: Update 1-korea Recalls Starlink Contaminated Food.
• Scottland: Ministers face new row on GM crops
• US: Plea over modified corn
• Should you fear franken-corn?
• Japanese Food Ministry: Starlink found in 10 of 15 samples of U.S. corn
• The StarLink Fiasco
• Groups Responsible for StarLink Testing Don't Like Investigation Timetable
• EPA Not Convinced on StarLink Bio-Corn Safety
• USA: Tainted corn broadens biotech backlash
• Japan Consumers Protest against U.S. Biotech Corn
• Japan Group Reviews Corn Screening
• Anger In Iowa Over Corn
• Voluntary Labelling Effort is a Whitewash
• Sixteen U.S. States Urge Aventis to Compensate Farmers
• Mississippi State Extension Service advises Farmers caution
• Profit said driving move toward GM food
• McDonald's dumps GM-fed meat
• Engineered Corn Having Wide Impact: Growing Clamor for Food Safety
• More Food Tied To Starlink Recalled
• Paraguay Adopts GM Labelling
• Greenpeace Wins Case Against GMO Field Trials Licences
• Aventis stumbles anew on Brazil soy market
• Farmers warned to be careful what type of corn they plant next season
• Farm groups want Aventis held liable for bio-corn
• USA: Legal issues of biotech questioned
• El Salvador bans import of Star Link corn products
• Life Sciences: Green and Dying
• US: StarLink protein appears in new corn seed
• Australia: Biotech Firm Buys Tonga's Gene Pool.
• Disaster Of The Day: Aventis Corn Monster
• Canada: Regulations Inadequate For Frankenfood
• Baking Items Added to Recall
• USDA doesn't know how StarLink tainted 1998 corn

20 November 2000

• Internet links
• Aventis Quits – Gene Giant To Sell Agbio Division
• Planned Obsolescence And Plant Breeding
• Possibly Extensive Unpredictable Ecological Harm
• Gene patenting: Over half a million patents on genetic code are pending or granted
• The Ethics Of Genetics – Special report on gene patenting
• Useful Tips To Avoid GM Foods
• 'Sound science' as ideology
• A Useful Reference On Canola Gene Spread
• Spread Of Toxin Gene In E Coli By Use Of Antibiotics
• Excellent Genetic Engineering Newsletter – internet link
• Government, Industry Panel Approves High-Dose Radiation 'Treatment' of Global Food Supply
• Organics under fire! – Strategies the AgChem + Food Industries are using to Discredit Organics
• Another Report On Transgenes As Invaders To Be Silenced
• Cheese: Biotechnological approaches to the understanding and improvement of mature cheese flavour
• Where do all the Argentine GM crops go?

15 November 2000

• BABA a natural chemical to fight plant disease
• Biotechnology Risk Perception In Liability Insurance
• An Economic Interpretation of the Precautionary Principle
• ICGEB: Biotech Scandal in India
• Getting Terminology right: "conventional farmers"
• China implants spider genes into silkworms
• Transgenes Are Cellular Invaders
• Melumber fruit (melon and cucumber hybrid) made the old way
• A Virus that Replicates in both Plants and Animals
• Implications of "a virus that replicates in both plants and animals"
• More on "a virus that replicates in both plants and animals"
• The first GM Organism released
• Ethanol Producers and Consumers news letter – link Bioenergy Initiative signed by Clinton
• Corrupt science – Biotech Executives Jailed for Data Fix
• Multiple Examples Of Science Corruption.

14 November 2000

• BIOWATCH: Australia – local government to be given GM autonomy?
• Australia: Committee recommends councils gain GM crop autonomy
• Organic Consumers Association: Free Subscription To Monthly Newsletter.
• FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THREE BIOSAFETY WORKSHOPS
• South African Church Calls for Moratorium on GE Food
• South African newspaper questions Aventis application for StarLink
• GE cotton – a health risk?
• BIOWATCH: GM crop 'con-trick' – new paper
• Paper: Big Holes in GM Testing
• Monsanto’s Transgenic Cottons can Make Gonorrhoea Untreatable

7 November 2000

• Inside information about Starlink
• Gene Surgery For Antibiotic Resistance Genes
• backgroundinfo on resistance to Cry1F and on Starlink
• US view of Mad Cow
• GE field tests and wierd science
• F.O.E.Press Release: Scientists Slam GM Research
• Cotton: GM crop approved for growing but not for human consumption ??
• Voluntary Food Labeling of GM food
• Recalled Corn Product List Released
• UK: Alert over 'GM tortillas'
• Quaker Concerns to The Royal Commission On Genetic Modification
• US Mycogen – Cargill: Mergers Move Ahead
• It looks like we have segregation folks (in the US)
• UK: First Genetics Trial Since Greenpeace Victory
• New Book: Hungry for Profit
• Bt-cotton in India
• Do we need to drug our children?
• Coca-Cola's official statement on GE corn syrup

3 November 2000

• Biotech Lobby Group At Heart Of Ethics Complaint
• Brand X label used to fight genetically modified corn
• CFIA Accused of Funding Propaganda on GMO's
• Safeway Recalls Taco Shells After Test Questions Corn Origin
• New Concerns Rise on Keeping Track of Modified Corn
• Molecular Barrier to lock out GE and foreign genes
• The Online Shoppers Guide to GM [in UK]
• Don't Ignore The Risks
• ConAgra stops producing corn flour as precaution against GE grain
• Farmers Cite Scarce Data in Corn Mixing
• Taiwan to Label GMO Foods
• Biotech May Be Widespread in Food
• Concerned Halifax Residents Stick Over 2000 Warning Labels On GE Foods
• Biotech's bad dream: Industry faces corn problem
• Welsh Assembly Members vote against GM seed laws
• Not All Biotech Corn Accounted for
• Transgenic Animal Feed Could Affect Dairy Products
• Biotech Corn Probably in Foods
• EU backs Italy in GM food ban
• Concerns about corn spur Kelloggs to close plant
• Biotech Concerns Affect Kellogg Co.
• Corn Flap Points to Food Problems
• Tyson Stops Buying Genetically Altered Corn
• Activists ask US foodmakers if they test for biocorn
• World Rejection of GE Crops
• Administration Sued
• Axe the Flax
• Shanghai government: rapeseed (canola)Contamination
• Labelling Down Under
• Terminator Chicken
• Xenotransplantation
• Mouse Patented
• CFIA Canada: Code of Secrecy
• Scottish Schools Ban GE
• Novartis Brands GE-Free
• Korean Giant Shuns GE
• Kellogg's Temporarily Shuts Down Plant Because Suppliers Can't Guarantee The Corn They Sell Kellogg's Is Free Of Starlink
• Grain elevators take losses
• Stray genes highlight superweed danger
• Rumor mill: StarLink genetics found in U.S. cargo of corn destined for Japan
• StarLink corn fiasco is a mess for Elevators
• Our Best Customer (Japan) Gets Starlinked
• Australia: Non Genetic Canola Trade Advantage
• US: Temporary Biotech Corn OK Sought
• USA: Wrapup-biocorn Contamination a Costly Headache for US Firms.
• The "Golden Rice" Hoax – When Public Relations Replaces Science
• US scrambles to limit trade costs of biotech corn
• US StarLink debacle: Spain may hike Argentine corn sales
• Federal Officials Blame Aventis for Biotech Corn Found in Food
• Letter Issued to Exporters re: StarLink
• StarLink scare may curb Asian appetite for US corn
• ADM to Export Starlink to Europe, Mexico, and South America
• Leaks from the lab – new GMO contained use regulations
• Dutch study: Starlink protein stimulated antibodies in lab rats
• Half Iowa Corn Contaminated: Problem could cost 'hundreds of millions'
• Bio-corn Debacle Points Up Flaws in Regulatory Scheme for Biotech Foods
• Gene-therapy death prompts broad civil lawsuit
• Internet: Better Organized Various Items On The Starlink Episode
• Biotech-corn Problems Lead To Recall Of 300 Products
• "Buried Data in Monsanto's Study on Roundup Ready Soybeans"

2 November 2000

• Key StarLink Documents now available & Daily Exposure to Cry9c
• On the Human Genome: Moments of Shocked Silence About Biotech
• New Orleans Patients Exposed to Rare Brain Disease (CJD / human BSE)
• A Potential Alternative to GM
• Sales of Milk Hormone rBGH Must be Suspended:
• The Power of genetic Recombination
• Suppressed Information about the Real Hazards of GE Foods
• Monsanto Shows Third Quarter Loss
• Approval of GM crops for animal feed not for human
• "No proof" is not the same as "no evidence"
• The Thalidomide of Genetic Engineering
• biotech missinformation on star link
• Transgenic Plants as Factories for Biopharmaceuticals

1 November 2000

• New GM crops – Farmer dependency and chemical sales
• Agribusiness giant in new GM seeds threat
• Similtaneous policy, a new way forward
• New warnings on Globalisation
• All-consuming Passion: Overconsumption
• BIOWATCH: spread of GM animal feed in human foods
• BIOWATCH: Vandana Shiva: globalisation, agriculture, patents – reality and fiction
• Use & Abuse of the Precautionary Principle – especially re GMOs
• UK Betrayed over BSE Mark II: Another Public Safety Fiasco
• Kiss of Death for GM Seed (chardon Ll Maize)
• UK dump 'BSE' cattle feed on 3rd world
• U.K. uses Third World to dump infected feed
• Gnawing at Phillips' bones

28 October 2000

• BIOWATCH: GM DNA fragments, human rights and biotech criminal trials
• Key DNA fragments can enter the human food chain, reveals research by Commons committee
• The Human Genome – The Biggest Sellout in Human History
• South Africa: Woolworths Showing the way on GM foods
• NOT such as an unstoppable technology!
• Endorse Freeze on Genetically Modified Food etc. in SA.
• GM food dangers. A declaration by Dr Richard Lacey
• UNCTAD: Systems and National Experiences for Protecting Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices
• AFRICAN ORGANIC SUCCESS STORIES – The ICIPE in Kenya.
• VIDEO: Organic or genetic in Africa?
• Beware: GM-affected Vitamin C, etc in "health" food products
• GMO Fight Comes To Supplements Aisle
• Action Alert on GE-Tainted Vitamin C Tablets Sold in Health Food Stores

26 October 2000

• (US):Govt. Said To Violate Endangered Species Act
• A drug to change the genes
• Concerns over GE Wheat and Cross-Polination
• Health Aspects of Bt Plant-Pesticides (Allergenicity, Toxicity etc.)
• Bacillus thuringiensis and its Toxins as Biopesticides
• Stray genes highlight superweed danger
• Dutch RaboBank Code of Conduct re: transgenic technologies
• Belgium to Boost Organic Farming by 60% a year
• GM crop – Bee Disease link etc.
• GMO on Bees: testimony by Joe Rowland to the N.Y. Assembly
• A Lesson for current Reviews on GM crops: "Mad cows cast long shadows"

19 October 2000

• Bangladeshi water supply: the mass-poisoning of an entire nation
• Re: Bangladeshi ground water – 65% of nation poisoned (fwd)
• RAFI: The Golden Rice AstraZeneca saga
• Pharmaceutical Companies – Settling a Lawsuit re Vitamin Price Fixing
• Precautionary policies and biotechnology in Africa
• Are risk assessment and the precautionary principle equivalent?
• EPA applications: interpreting the Starlink(r) caper
• How many consumers affected by Starlink corn? (Please forward)
• San Francisco Examiner: "Sentries for genetically engineered corn"
• Dangers of GE human Insulin
• Cargill USA – Arrogance Inc. – SPLICE article
• Corn Grower President Applauds EPA Decision to Make Seed Corporations Responsible for Economic Losses

12 October 2000

• Greenpeace exposes Human/Pig genetic experiment
• gene therapy: the record
• Non-GMO Feed Taking Off in Europe?
• Disabling plants' immune system: Real genetically modified madness!!
• Experimenting with Life, by David Suzuki
• 100 companies using genetically eng. foods.. their email and website
• Demand for non-GMO and Organic Soy Growing
• Genetic ID profile in NY Times
• Enhancing Civil Society Input into the 'Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research'(CGIAR)
• UK begins purge of GM animal feed
• BIOWATCH: Globalisation = Americanisation = Farmer crucifixion
• Biotech, Poverty, Hunger & Developing Nations
• Cash cow – first auction of cloned animal at US cattle show
• BIOWATCH: Bt & Roundup cotton linked to gonorrhea – UK Govt report
• The Empire Strikes back – Corporations vs anti-corporates.
• BIOWATCH: Green Party warns against GM crops in SA

8 October 2000

• US Senate Testimony: "The Future of Food: Biotech. and Consumer Confidence"
• European Company Will Buy Entire Crop of Corn in Recall
• Evidence of harm to human subjects in GE experiments
• Monsanto scientists go for growth with luminous lawn
• Disastrous Bayer vaccin appears to be GE.
• Genetically Modified Jelly Bellies
• GE Foods FDA Lawsuit
• Judge Upholds F.D.A. Policy on Genetically Altered Foods
• Genetically engineered crops allowed in US food supply
• Suspect pro-GM mole on anti-biotech list
• US: Greenpeace Issues 'Shopping List' of Biofoods
• US – Alliance for Bio-Integrity statement on GM Court case
• UK: Three Cases of Human `Mad Cow' Disease Found in UK Children
• JUDGE Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to also rule in Monsanto suit?
• US-BIO: Recommending approval of ALL GE crops for human consuption
• Imminent FDA Rulemaking on Genetically Engineered Foods

3 October 2000

• GM sugar not a sweet prospect.
• Novartis sued for conspiracy to create an artifical market for Ritalin
• Biotech Be careful, take precautions [Le Monde Diplomatique]
• GE bacteria being released into US soils?
• Intoxicating bacterium kills plants
• Benbrook GM paper available as slide show
• BIOWATCH: Corrupt relationship between biotech industry & regulators.
• Non-GMO farming answer to fuel crisis!
• Fuel Cells generate Electricity
• Woolworths Press Release - Hormone Free Ayrshire Milk
• Natural medicine effective in chronic illness
• BIOWATCH: US Firm Withdraws Patent Claims on Basmati
• BIOWATCH: Monsanto’s Transgenic Cottons Can Make Gonorrhoea Untreatable
• Uranium and Radium found in drinking water fluoridation agent

29 September 2000

• "Slinging Manure at Organic Farming – GMO propaganda"
• "Cultivating the Truth About Organics"
• Announcing ISIS News No 6. (Invaluable info – Please circulate)
• Transmission of BSE by blood transfusion in sheep
• Hagelin on food safety and GMOs
• Chicken genes in apples, flounder genes in strawberries
• bigotry among GM advocates
• Public Unease on GMOs well founded, says expert
• Shocking lack of knowledge
• a note from John Fagan
• Amazon geneticist 'killed hundreds'
• Discussion: "Soy Alert".
• Report Warns on Human Gene Trials
• "The Maestros of GM Propaganda an International Trio"
• Should USDA certify GM testing?
• Nature points out that GM is careless in US and Canada
• New Book on GE (BioDemocracy News Special)

28 September 2000

• GMO Labelling Obligatory For All Foods
• California Law Pins Some Segregation Costs to Biotech Seeds
• A pig of a problem: Can Xenotransplants ever be Made Safe?
• Scientists Demand GMO Moratorium
• New GMOs From Novartis
• Butterfly Census Comes Up Short: Experts differ on cause of decline
• Indonesia Says It Will Stop Growing Genetically Modified Cotton
• Lymphatic Plague
• Gene Therapy: Hype or Hope?
• UK: Organic boost for farmers
• Farmers Rally Against GMOs
• Italy defends GMO ban
• GM protesters cleared
• Genetic ID Responds to Aventis Attack
• Xenotransplant exposé: Terrible despair of animals cut up in name of research
• Kraft Recalls Taco Bell Shells with Biotech Corn
• UK: NOP poll on GM animal feed:
• New blow to GM as big stores extend their ban
• GM crops risk is too great, says Melchett
• Kraft Recalls Taco Shells With Bioengineered Corn
• Monsanto's plan to sway GM debate.
• Taco Bell Recalls Shells That Used Bioengineered Corn.
• Indian farmers urge 10-year moratorium on GM agriculture
• Biotech Industry Endorses Controls
• Aventis Corp. Stops Selling Biotech Corn
• Indian Farmers rally against GM crops
• USDA Says Better Job Needed in Segregating Biotech Crops
• Genetically engineered foods causing some concerns
• GIPSA readies biotech lab to test the testers
• Tempest in a Taco Shell
• Cargill Approves Corn Varieties for its Non-GMO Brand
• GM crops get public hearings
• Aventis CropScience To Buy Back Biotech Corn Crop
• European Company Will Buy Entire Crop of Corn in Recall

15 September 2000

• Biotech forced removal of non-GM Seed
• Alternatives to Oil: Renewable Energy could become more important
• BIOWATCH: Organic food market growth in UK.(40% per annum)
• BST milk: very useful published works.
• Will New Zealand go GM free? - new Organic versus GM study
• FAO report supports Organic
• "Genetically-Modified" US Food Aid Suspect.
• Precautionary Policies and Biotechnology in Africa.
• The institutions of precaution
• Africa Still Not as Excited as GM Companies Claim
• Labeling Busines: how to avoid it
• The Parable of the four Beggars
• "Drug-company influence on medical education in USA" (and UK??)
• Saskatchewan: Latest on our man Percy
• Spin detector: new organisation called "NovaTero"
• New GMO varieties From Novartis
• Prion disease - dormant but deadly
• Ireland: Ploughing GM crops has risks, - McKenna
• Health improvements through avoiding soya (Both conventional and GM soya)

10 September 2000

• RATS IN THE GRAIN: Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer
• Sir John Krebs in organic attack
• Contaminated Babies
• "Sir John Krebs is a famous bird brain"
• Books on GE to add to your library... current list.
• spurious claims
• LOVES LABOR DAY LOST
• GE Legume inoculant - watch out!
• 4 GE stories – internet links
• medical use of cannabis
• Pigs Transplants Release Virus Infecting Human Cells
• An Early Example of Substantial Equivalence
• Clone scientists 'more interested in wealth than health. (Rev Ian Paisley)
• Greens demand comprehensive ban on human cloning
• GM crops 'worse than N-waste'
• Bad News For Genetic Engineering: Lymphatic Plague
• great news from Hawaii: GE papaya has short shelf life
• Attack of the Uber Tomatoes
• GM papaya homepage
• GM sweet potato homepage
• GM apple a day may protect teeth

8 September 2000

• Book: 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
• BIOWATCH: Biotech, Poverty & Hunger in Developing Nations
• "Free, Raw, Unregulated Capital and Free, Raw, Unregulated Genes"
• Leaked Report: MONSANTO'S 'DESPERATE' PROPAGANDA
• BIOWATCH: Risky Milk Linked To Cancer Sold In South Africa.
• BIOWATCH: Ex-Napalm Maker Moves to Biopharmaceuticals
• BIOWATCH: Biotech and rice research in Asia
• BIOWATCH: Salt-resistant plants may help farmers keep deserts at bay
• Shut Up And Eat Your GM Soup, Africans Are Told
• BIOWATCH: Patent Evils Threaten Public Goods
• Bursting the Biotech Bubble

5 September 2000

• Terminator is Back
• Biotech Genes on the Move
• GE Food Losing Ground
• Stink Bugs
• Seed Firm Exodus
• Rogue DNA
• Water Pollution from Drugs and Cosmetics
• GMO U.S. Grain Tests Still Seeking 'Magic Bullet'
• Opportunities For Non-genetically Modified Soy ...
• Genetically Altered Seed Hurts Family Farms, Protesters Say
• Premium for 150,000 Tons of Aussie Canola
• GM animal tests 'out of control'
• Reporter Wins Jury Award in Landmark GE Milk Case on GMO Cow Hormone
• Studies showing that Bt Corn Threatens Monarch Butterflies Faced a Biased EPA Review
• GM crops cost US farmers £700m in lost exports
• Quotes about experience with GE
• GM seeds may be in food chain: Monsanto
• Brazil Pulls Unlabelled Genetically Modified Food From Shelves
• European Commission: Seeds of Doubt – Concerns over GMOs
• New Study Links Biotech Corn To Butterfly Deaths
• Altered corn a threat to butterflies
• Boulder, Colo., City Government Unit Bans GMOs on City Land Rented to Farmers
• Scottish Council Overturns GM Trial
• Pope calls human cloning, embroyo research unacceptable
• Plants rendered herbicide-susceptible by cauliflower mosaic virus-elicited suppression of a 35S promoter-regulated transgene
• Biotech Crops May Reduce Bird Food
• Fox Still Distorting News; TV Critics Are M-i-a
• US city council resolutions against GE
• GM crops threaten skylarks
• Eleven on Biotech Panel Call for USDA to Dump Terminator
• This is the strongest anti-GE pro-organic resolution passed so far in the United States.
• Genetic ID Newsletter
• Talking to Farmers
• We are being Exposed to One of the Largest Uncontrolled Experiments in History

3 September 2000

• New York Times: Simple Method Found to Vastly Increase Crop Yields
• Biotech has bamboozled us all
• Excellent Summary: "Immediate Global Ban of GM Food"
• Soy - the full story
• Refined Sugar: The sweetest Poison of All ("The SugarBlues")
• Global Crisis – Aspartame artificial sweetener
• New Zealand liberalisation left it poorer.
• New Fears over Impact of GM Crops on Bird Populations
• Xenotransplantation – How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk from Viral Pandemics
• BIOWATCH: Update: World Scientist Call for Worldwide GM Ban
• The Organic Revolution in Science and Implications for Science and Spirituality
• Angry Thai Farmers want GM ban - Rice Forum 15.8.2000

1 September 2000

• GM goat spins web based future
• Monarch Butterfly on Bt corn
• GE virus for bunnys
• Tasmanian Government wants Opt-out of GE
• Dutch Bank issues guidelines on biotech crops
• (UK) Scientists highlight new BSE threat from other animals
• UK GM crops farmer in court battle
• NY Times: "Mmm, Mmm, Genetically Engineered"
• madder cows
• Monsanto convicted over PCBs
• USA Admits Possible Link between Biological Weapons and Agent Green
• "Barnase or terminator by any other still stinks"
• Novartis pins hopes for GM seeds on new marker system
• We told them so! The CaMV promoter thinks it is still a virus!
• USDA on its terminator
• GM crops change microbial ecology
• GM crops may eliminate birds

21 August 2000

• The Next US President and globalisation.
• BIOWATCH: Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical research are Pervasive
• U.S. Weighs Changes in Rules on Drug Research Conflicts
• Biotech handouts: Tainted alliances
• The Promise of Biotechnology – the Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms.
• How it Happened that we don't regulate Biotech.
• BIOWATCH: Scientists cautioned about genetically modified food
• 'Frankengrass' creates multi-coloured lawns

20 August 2000

• Antioxidant Lycopene made from GE e-coli
• Cannabis cures athritis
• GM Monoculture may be inferior to diversity
• Herbicide Resistance is Out of Control say Canola Farmers
• phytoestrogens fight asthma
• Retrovirus Infection From Pig Transplants
• Perseverance Leads to Cloned Pig in Japan.
• The Promise of Plant Biotechnology (useful info)
• Religion: Genetically Altered Foods Violate Bounds Of Creation
• horizontal gen transfer parasite to host
• Useful website on dangers of GM foods
• Scientists cautioned about genetically modified food

18 August 2000

• The Genetic-ID.com GMO Newsletter July 31, 2000
• Saudi Bans Import of GM Foods
• Living things can be patented, court rules
• Italian government blocks marketing on 4 GM maize varieties
• Battle over genetically modified food extends to Brazil
• France Orders GM-Contaminated Soya Crop Destroyed
• We're banning GM ingredients from our foods, says world's top GM seed firm
• Greece to Destroy 9,000 Acres of Biotech Cotton
• Ethical Consumer Magazine
• Major US processor Frito seeks non-GM Oil
• Fox/bgh Trial In Final Stretch
• Day of GM triffid dawns
• Canada: Irvings Say No to GMO's
• GM crop trials may be unlawful, admit ministers
• Almost All Vitamin C Is Now From Gentically-Modified Corn!
• Scientists to stop GM pigs research over virus fears
• Greece to Pull Up Genetically Modified Cotton
• GMO debate: 95% of Canadians want the right to choose what they eat
• Herbicide Resistance is Out of Control say Canola Farmers
• Eastern Europe Opposes US Budget Proposals
• Canadian Canola farmer fights seed invasion
• So, how would you feel about a baboon heart? Ottawa wants to know
• Genetically Modified Rice Tests Worry Philippine Farmers
• Gene-altered US Wheat Coming but Who will Buy it?
• Australia non-GM grains cash in winning trade hand
• FoxBghSuit: Victory In Tampa!
• Spectacular farm results in China without GM

14 August 2000

• Seeding Power: The Other Problem with Genetically Modified Crops
• Prof. Trewavas on organic
• Transgenic Crops Leave Persistent Microbes In Soil
• FDA scientists questions soy safety (Part One)
• FDA scientists question soy safety (Part two)
• The Other Side of Soy
• Predicted CJD (mad cow) mortality in Britain
• BSE (mad cow disease ) and scrapie
• DNA machines
• Soya alert over cancer and brain damage link
• On Big Brother
• Police Cybersnooping Proposal Open To Abuse

8 August 2000

• BIOWATCH: Fw: Biotech: Not the Answer to Hunger
• BIOWATCH: Southern Africa: Seed Requirements after the Floods
• Assessment of the Seed Requirements After the Floods in the 1999/2000 SEASON
• BIOWATCH: Worldwide GMO debate + Effects on Business
• What is GM Food and what’s all the fuss about
• Soybean Products – A Recipe for Disaster?
• BIOWATCH: Say no to Canola
• "GE-free" companies

4 August 2000

• Monarchs hit by field GM pollen – Iowa Study
• Bt corn and swallowtale
• More Efforts To Release Mercry To Rainfall Over Cities
• Testing Bt refuge strategies in the field
• Neem tree patents: an immodest victory
• Genetic Mutations Accumulating Rapidly, Scientists Say
• Major survey on GE foods released!
• Awareness of Genetically Modified Foods Wide but Knowledge not Deep
• Rising Consciousness Of Biotech Leaders
• Pesticides: Endosulfan Deaths in Benin
• Flourescent Pseudomonads Good Biotech Without Genetic Modification
• Can a deadly spider replace chemical pesticides?
• Buffer zone for GM crops 'does not work'
• Bacillus Thuringiensis And Its Relatives
• Context of Possible Traceback Epidemiology on Harm from GEF
• Dead Birds Are a Portent Of Return of West Nile Virus
• James Watson endorses scientists "playing God"
• Commandments from James Watson
• Author of World Bank report resigns in protest of muzzling

3 August 2000

• G8 leaders find GM food accord hard to swallow
• Food Companies Urged to End Use of Biotechnology Products
• Australian state says GM crops are pests
• Will souped up salmon sink or swim?
• Cancer peril of animal organ transplants
• Biotechnology Not The Solution
• Prime Minister of Australia left behind by new GM tests
• Korea's largest tofu and soybean product company shuns GM beans
• Flax Farmers Want GMO Variety Off the Market
• USDA Refuses to Abandon Terminator Technology
• All genetically modified food to be labelled in Australia and New Zealand
• Australian National Farmer's Federation (NFF) warnes its members
• Brazil: Billions At Stake In Genetically Modified Foods Debate
• China Finds GM Rapeseed in Canada Import
• Human embryos to be cloned
• GM foods 'banned' from school menus
• Terminator Chicken
• The Jane Akre\ Steve Wilson Rbgh Fox Television Trial
• DuPont attempts to influence anti-GM food campaigners
• From boom to bust in three seasons - the rapid rise and fall of GE markets

21 July 2000

• Analysis: – GM Sugar Delay Raises Doubts On Prospects
• GM food conference met by protest
• No Patents On Biotechnology Products
• More from the FOX BGH trial
• GE Crop Rules Needed: Agriculture Ministers Say
• Biotech backlash – Mainstream plunges into the struggle
• Monsanto Sale May be Reconsidered
• Canadaian Magazine: This story asks, what's the worry?
• Brazil Ban on GM Foods Seen Firm as Divisions Fester
• Planting The Seeds Of Destruction
• EuropaBio GE congress cancelled
• March against GM crops
• Italian farm Minister calls for GM-free foods
• Campbell, Others Targeted by Activists on Gene-Altered Foods
• Suburban Genetics: Scientists Searching for a Perfect Lawn
• GMOs: Anti-biotech activists take aim at Campbell's Soup
• GM crops are pests, Tasmania declares
• Watch: Superfish are no superfix for hunger
• Green Groups Target Campbell Soup in GM Food Fight
• BIOWATCH: Clinton Attacks Europe; GM Dangers
• GM dangers / quote
• FDA Taken To Court By Its Own Scientists
• Kellogg's To Keep Using Genetically Mutated Grain
• Genetically Engineered Spider Toxin Threatens Butterflies

7 July 2000

• Former Monsanto Lobbyist Carol Foreman Appointed to Serve as U.S. "Consumer Advocate" on U.S. Biotech Consultative Forum Delegation
• Study Concludes Biotech Food Losing Ground with Consumers
• Japanese Snack Company Switches Sweeteners
• Brazil Turns Away GM Argentine Corn
• Egyptian Minister Complains about GM Food Exports
• Swiss Ease Import Barrier for Gene-Modified Seeds
• Buffer Zone for GM Crops 'Does Not Work'
• GM seed purity rule rejected as unsafe
• 'Secret' Genetically Modified Crops Rife Throughout State
• Review on Non-Target Organisms and Transgenic Bt Plants
• Growth Stimulation of Beetle Larvae Reared on a Transgenic Oilseed Rape
• Scientists Publish Study on the Safety and Nutritional Value of Monsanto's Biotech Corn
• New Corporate Watch anti-gmo website
• Defiant Tasmania bans GM crop trials
• Wheat Growers Call for Segregation
• Useful Links on the Web
• Dolly firm put woman's gene into sheep
• Re: "Something New: Therazoan Vectors for Genetic Engineering"
• Company to Compensate Farmers for GM Muddle
• GMO Cotton to be Destroyed
• Australians Protest Genetically Modified Food
• Transgenic Corn is Extra Tough Stuff
• India Cheers While Monsanto Burns
• HUMAN GENOME (good short sumary)
• Global threats to Dairy Agriculture by Globalisation.
• Milk: Greying of India’s White Revolution

26 June 2000

• GM crops face destruction in trials blunder
• From salad oil to sweeteners, biotech foods stir excitement, concern
• Researchers who implicate GM crops tend to lose their funding.
• Canada: Federal Court Gag Order Hearings
• Goat-Spider Experiment: Biotech Company to Produce "BioSteel" Milk
• Frankenfoods need more testing, Chrétien agrees
• China Says First Goat Cloned From Adult Cells Dies After 36 Hours
• Genetically Engineered Foods a Threat to Life
• New setback for British Biotech in drugs trials
• India fights US basmati rice patent
• Italy threatens ban on EU-approved GM-derived foods
• Corn Growers Commission New National Survey on Genetically Modified Crops
• "E. coli myth grew out of thinktank"
• San Francisco Panel Wants City to Go Organic
• Cargill Corn Waylaid by Brazil Ban on GMOs
• Farmer Percy Schmeiser takes stand in patent-breaking lawsuit
• Genetically Modified Foods 'Super Site' Debuts

21 June 2000

• Researchers Who Implicate Safety of GM Lose Funding
• natural remedy more effective than GM?
• Farmers Stick With Biotech Soy
• Iowa Farmer Today – Signs & Story On Drift In Iowa
• Pusztai on OECD. Plus Iceland website update
• Genetically Modified Foods 'Super Site' Debuts
• Contaminated Seed Accidentally Planted on `GM-free' Site
• More on Our Man Percy Schmeiser

18 June 2000

• Action Step For Canadians
• The Ecological Impacts of Transgenic Crops on Agroecosystem
• Canola Oil Alergy
• Newsletter 'Market Intelligence' from Genetic ID
• GM Seed Firm Agrees to Compensate Farmers
• GM Crop Compensation Set To Cost Company Millions
• Modified Organisms May Spell Danger For Africans
• Canadians outraged over GM company's methods
• Research by Iowa State University confirming monarch butterflies damaged by GE pollen from Bt corn. See:
• Scientists expose "junk science" behind genetically modified corn approvals
• Review on Non-Target Organisms and Transgenic Bt Plants
• French Farmers Confident on GM Seed Compensation
• Revolving Door placement: Monsanto man is now US Consumber Advocate
• Subsidy Boost for GM Contaminated Crop Farmers
• Widespread alert on seeds contaminated with GM
• Monsanto used private investigators to check on farmer
• Comments From Dr. Mae-wan Ho, Regarding Her Concerns About Genetic Engineering
• GM crops don't deliver
• Japanese Snack Company Switches Sweeteners
• Greenpeace Launches New Web Site!
• Transgenic Oilseed Rape [canola] line unexpectedly increases growth of crop pest
• Monsanto Used Private Eye, Spies to Check on Saskatchewan Farmers
• Excellent New Briefing on the Risks of GM Foods
• Scientists abandon 'inefficient' cloning
• New Zealand Moratorium On Genetic Modification

6 June 2000

• International Food Policy Research Institute: New Listserver
• Royal Society of NZ (RSNZ) turns around
• EU, US launch biotechnology forum on GM foods
• GM Seed Firm Agrees to Compensate Farmers
• Dissertation: Genetic Engineering and it's effect on sustainable food security
• High vitamin A sweet potato for Africa developed
• French roundup on GM-contaminated rapeseed story and EU's GM policy
• Response to Journalist George Monbiot
• Manbiot/spiritual transformation
• Monsanto: Not an embarrassment?
• Modified Foods Put US Companies in a Quandary
• Modified Organisms May Spell Danger For Africans
• PCBs: The people of Anniston v Monsanto

2 June 2000

• BIOWATCH: GM Seeds Fiasco. The Dig-up Begins
• Keep SA Soy GE-Free - Conference June 21/22 2000
• BIOWATCH: Stop WTO Round - Mbeki Attempts To Secure A United Bloc against G7
• Tony Rushes in Where Bill Fears to Tread
• Rats! this is Fishy: Xenotransplantation: Fish=96to=96 Rat
• Agrobacterium Gene Transfer to Plants
• Ecological Impact of Transgenics
• Robert Cohen: Secret rBGH Study
• Cargill, Hayashibara to Introduce Trehalose Sweetener to the Americas
• Vitamin A in Tomato
• Avadin in Corn Kills Storage Insects
• metallothionein gene from mouse in soil bacteria
• International Food Policy Research Institute: New Listserver
• Mohammed Al-Fayed anger in GM seed row
• EU, US launch biotechnology forum on GM foods
• good websites on GE

31 May 2000

• GM genes 'jump species barrier'
• Martin Khor speech at the Millenium Forum
• US Congress aids farmers Crop insurance changed
• Farmers Mull Legal Move Against Govt. on Seed
• UK govt says any GM crop decision "commercially driven"
• New Scientist: Apocalypse When
• Capitalist Failure?
• Ethical Issues of GMO at OSU (Ohio State University)
• Resistance to Bt noted in laboratories and cotton weevils
• German Scientist Finds GM Genes Can Jump Species
• Crop Segregation: Sowing dissent
• Pollution of seed supplies by GE seed.
• Falklands to become the first all-organic exporter
• Monsanto GM seeds contain 'rogue' DNA
• GM tomatoes 'fight cancer'
• Terminator Technology: The Threat to World Food Security

29 May 2000

• Search Engine at www.natural-law.ca/genetic
• Book: "Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment"
• Video Documentary "The Genetic Takeover or Mutant Food"
• Canadian internet news service www.epress.ca
• France decides to destroy GM rapeseed crops
• UK: Brown Facing Resign Call over GM Crop Delay
• Rape (canola) Destruction.
• GM crops 'planted for years by mistake'
• BioDemocracy News #27: Who's Winning the Frankenfoods Fight?
• University of Pennsylvania will no longer use humans for experiments
• British farmer plows under crop of genetically modified canola
• US farmers demand GM compensation for British colleagues
• Ministers pressed to destroy GM crops
• Greenpeace sets deadline on GM seeds
• GM genes 'can spread to people and animals'
• Farmers Mull Legal Move Against Govt. on Seed
• Excerpt from New Scientist
• New Scientist: Sowing dissent
• Monsanto GM seeds contain 'rogue' DNA
• Firms move to avoid risk of contamination

28 May 2000

• Seeds supplied by France and US may be tainted
• Corporate terrorism: European Seed Associations's GM contamination letter - full text
• Greenpeace and GM maize pollution/update
• Genetic Engineering: A Crisis of Consciousness
• Novartis's New Marker-Gene System Targets Genetically Modified Crops
• Biosafety Protocol statement of Ethopia
• GM crops 'planted for years by mistake'
• Kids web site address
• Top Cross-breeders need funding
• US farmers demand GM compensation for British colleagues
• GM salmon in Norway pose cancer threat: fish inspector,
• Pesticides on the Rise in China
• UK Labour plan for people power
• GM genes 'can spread to people and animals'
• Glickman on GMOs

25 May 2000

• BLOW to Monsanto: Roundup Ready
• UK Government claims over 'sterile' crops proved false
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency -- The Biology of Oil Seed Rape (Canola)
• CaMV promoter is dangerous
• Western Australia bans genetically modified crops for two years
• Questions and Answers on Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV)
• More Minnesota Farmers Turn to Genetically Modified Seeds
• PSRAST article and ZDF news release
• Debate 2000'0522 a: 'New Risks' of transgenic crops.
• USDA Attache: Monsanto ends herbicide-canola seed link in Canada
• Biotech Companies Fear Public Resistance Could Hurt Industry

24 May 2000

• Canadian Health Food Association supports GM-free labelling
• Inquiry into Welsh-grown GM crops
• MPs demand destruction of GM rape crop
• Europe Again in Food Flap
• Mysterious tumours deal blow to cloning research
• Australia: Tasmania must have a Choice on GMOs
• Officials fail to check source of GM pollution
• Austin City Council Approves GE Food Resolution
• Herbicide drift
• Ottawa Resists GM Food Label Lobby
• Canadian seeds spark European farm furor
• US Senators Blast Agreement with Novartis
• Activists Create Alternative News Source For Farmers
• Transgenic Rice: A Blind Approach
• Terminator is Back
• Biotech Crops Deserted: 16% less
• No Insurance
• Safety Sacrificed
• Germany Refuses GE Maize
• Tony Blair Admits Hazards
• International (legal) Uproar
• Vocal GM protests loom in Italy
• 2 arrested for trying to label altered food
• Anti-GM Protest Shuts Britain's Agriculture Ministry
• British Farmer Digs Up Canadian-Imported Rapeseed
• Canadian Food Information Council: Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
• Canada faces loss of grain markets over modified food:
• GMOs Must Go
• 20 Environmentalists Closed Down Britain's Ministry Of Agriculture
• GM Secrecy 'made Seed Error Worse'
• GE Gene Transfer in Gut of Bees
• Unilever stops with GE foods in EU
• Press release from the Swedish Board of Agriculture 24 May 2000
• Sweden orders farmers to dig up contaminated oil seed rape.

22 May 2000

• EU raids AstraZeneca
• GM crop by a thousand cuts, from Canada with love?
• Piglets, Humanized and Cloned
• Novartis-patent on human organs
• Biotech soybeans yield 6-11% less than conventional
• The government's GM strategy is ruined
• cloning dangers
• GM spiked seeds from Canada
• Insect Product Causes Cancers in Plants
• Officials fail to check source of GM pollution
• Xenotransplantation and humanizing pigs: Recent developments
• Vandana Shiva - BBC Reith Lecture on Globalization (long)
• Monsanto's Big Lie Exposed: More Herbicides needed!

19 May 2000

• America finds ready market for GM food - the hungry
• Hi-tech crops are bad for the brain
• Some Economic realities from Boudewijn Wegerif
• The U.S. Debt Pyramid Scam
• Corporate control and the WTO
• BIOWATCH: Attack on scientific debate
• A history of economic globalization
• WTO insiders report

18 May 2000

• PANUPS: Action Alert: USDA Seeks Comment on GE Policies
• People who Lived in the Area did NOT KNOW
• Important GE food safety documents
• Aventis - "corporate criminals" - resources
• Evolution of a Revolution
• Biopiracy: the slavery of the new millennium? surely not
• GM Trials Threaten UK Honey.
• Biotech Is Still Where It's At
• (US) 'Golden Rice' To Be Donated to Poor
• Anti-greenie on our Side: Risk of escaped GM food genes
• Protesters cleared over crop damage
• How the Neem patent fight was won
• Lateral Gene Transfer in Bacteria (genes like antibiotic resistance)
• EU accused of lax approach to GM foods
• Misuse of Pioneer Seed Material Costs Cargill Corp. $100 million

17 May 2000

• Monsanto lab in Crystal closes amid food protests
• FDA to Strengthen Pre-market Review of Bioengineered Foods
• Democrats Criticize White House Biofood Plan
• GMOs May Pose New Risk to Endangered Plants, Animals
• New Theme For Shareholder Activism: Policing Genetically Modified Food
• Privileges committee hasn't finished its probe
• IPS World News
• Biotech food rules too lax, critics say:
• Italy Says No to GM Sponsorship
• GMO folks have a little surprise from Alberta
• EU remains prudent on genetically modified foods, warns applicants of tough farming criteria
• UN members agree on labels for biotech foods
• Spanish Corn Starch Industry says Bt Corn is a Problem
• GM Stink Bug Problem hits Georgia as Chemicals go Back On
• Biotechnology Regulations Challenged under the Auditor General Act
• Labelling Altered Foods `a Necessity'; International Pact Goal of Ottawa
• Frankentree listserver
• 2 Top Chefs Join Food Fight
• UN body stalls again on labelling for genetically modified HEAD: foods
• US Patent on Neem Revoked
• biotech In Trouble – Part 2
• Risk of escaped GM food genes
• New GE internet links
• GM Crops Now Growing in UK
• Prince warns of 'playing God'
• GM pollen found in honey
• Major Victory Against Bio-piracy: Neem Tree Patent
• Resistance to genetically modified food likely to continue
• Concern Over GE Food Draws Shareholder Action at McDonalds Meeting
• Prince Charles warns

13 May 2000

• Precautionary Principle (the view of the US establishment)
• Gene therapy corporate connections
• UK ACTION: What to do if there is a GM Test Site near you
• Gene Therapy on Trial
• Gene Therapy Corporate Connections

11 May 2000

• USDA to validate biotech grain tests and accredit labs
• Cohen: Direct result of genetic engineering: human sickness
• INFO-EDITORIAL on GM foods
• GM medicine 'risks the lives of diabetics'
• Biotechnology and Development Monitor
• The Actual Evidence Of Avery's Lie
• Illegal genetic research exposed (NZ)
• Genetic engineering will never cure cancer
• Italy to Scientists: No GM Gelato
• Genetic food warning labels denied
• GE Foods: Science and Nature Don't Necessarily Mix;
• GeneWatch UK's new online database
• Convention exposes rift over genetically altered foods
• Panel discusses biotech food
• (US) Food makers try odd ideas to win U.S. consumers
• GEF for Cuba?
• "fibromyalgia"
• EMS and fibromyalgia
• Rachel #695: BIOTECH IN TROUBLE--PART 1
• Greens victory in Anti-BioPiracy Case
• Bees & GM

6 May 2000

• South Africa: R10 million to focus on SAís indigenous knowledge in 2000
• BIOWATCH: Question MPs on GE releases
• Insect Resistance and the Future of Bt Transgenic Plants
• IS IT KOSHER?
• A pest might make a comeback thanks to engineered "weeds"
• Of Consuming Interest: Go Organic.
• How old is GE? Phil the Oiler refuted
• retentive Canadian bureaucrats
• Doctors seek ethical controls on centralized databanks
• NEW BIOTECH CONSEQUENCE
• Antibiotic Resistance Gene Transfer In Gut
• Keep homes secret, plead biotech chiefs
• U.S. Anti-GM Farm Groups Launch New Web Site

4 May 2000

• Quicktest Developed For Detecting GMOs
• Bt found to reduce toxin in corn
• does GE really reduce toxin in corn? does it matter?
• Messenger A ace protein
• not exactly GE: "Green Mussel Rush Blues"
• 100 richest Genetic Engineering's Multimillionaires Year 2000
• Reply to the "agricultural expert"
• Crop's a Flop Party on Telly
• Mega-Artichokes to Power Homes?
• Re: B-GE:Mega-Artichokes to Power Homes?
• the "new" GM: using chimeric RNA/DNA
• GM Food Awards – UPDATE
• The GM Food Awards 2000, (UK)
• Robert Cohen: New Biotech Rules – Dick Meets Jane
• Brazil will not change patents law over US complaint
• U.S. to Announce Steps to Toughen Policy on Gene-Altered Food
• food, consciousness, and genetic engineering
• Haitian pigs meet globalization

2 May 2000

• Update on Health Canada Scientists, April 20, 2000
• Senate Report Could Let Health Canada Off The Hook
• Flawed Science behind EPA Approval of Biotech Crops
• Ottawa Gives up on Splicing Genes into Pasta Ingredient
• Biosafety Success
• Prof. Ann Clark Speaks Out
• Gene Therapy Experiments Stopped
• Consumers Win
• Prince Charles Wins Green Award
• Superweeds Resist Three herbicides
• Fish Face Extinction
• GE Canola Yields Down
• Monsanto Modifies Name
• EPA Restricts GE Corn
• Senator report on Health Canada is a copout
• Voters Nix Altered Crops at Kellogg
• USDA Lobbied on Biotech Squash
• Japan to require safety screening of biotech foods
• USA: Monsanto's Biotech Spud is being Pulled from the Fryer at Fast-Food Chain.
• Six environmental groups ask the USDA to intensify probes of genetic modification.
• April showers wash out GM trials
• By McDonalds pulled Frankenfries from Menu
• Veggie with rat gene
• Province Ends Research To Keep Sliced Apples From Turning Brown
• Letter To Kelloggs
• One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four GE Potato -- Gone!!!
• US Farmers Losing Domestic Markets While Japan Sets New Restrictions for GMO Corn Imports

30 April 2000

• EPA and Bt lawsuit update: Greenpeace press release
• Gene 2000
• Basmati Rice: legal petition filed against biopiracy
• Japan to require safety screening of biotech foods
• Mandatory Biotech Labels Falsely Imply Safety Concerns, Raise Trade Barriers
• Survey Shows Europeans Fearful of GM Foods and Cloning
• Debate Heightens over Genetically Modified Foods
• corrupt journalism
• Massachusetts Company Developing Giant Genetically Altered Lobster
• Monsanto view: Opportunity for Agricultural Biotechnology
• Sustainable Agriculture has released several publications
• Transitions: Standards to Grow With
• non GM medical marijuana

26 April 2000

• Bioengineered crops and human health
• Book: Soil Microorganisms and Higher Plants
• Jumping Gene "sleeping beauty" from GM Fish to People
• Japan: Gov't submits bill to Diet to ban human cloning
• Pro-GE stand on Bt
• Giant GM salmon on the way
• Despite Alarms GM Salmon is inevitable
• Canada's GM salmon grow five times faster than normal
• General references and links- Biotech & Forestry
• rBGH: FDA Lies Continue
• Danger: Naked DNA: Routes of human uptake
• University: repositioning, competitivity, and Research(r)
• Unintended gene silencing in GM crops
• Brain at Risk from the Environment
• New genes protect trees from insects, disease

21 April 2000

• Fraud Suspected in Approval of Synthetic Milk Hormone
• Effects of Klebsiella planticola SDF20
• prostitute journalism: "Unpalatable truths" - New Scientist, April 17, 1999
• [GSN] GE drugs: Class action - insulin
• Diabetes: Bellagio Report 1996
• Scientific Information for the Bellagio Report, April 1996
• Hopes Grow for Hybrid Rice to Feed Developing World
• corn promoter mutations from insertion

18 April 2000

• Lateral Gene Transfer
• Correction to "Botany and Biotechnology"
• Organic agriculture: false claims of starvation
• US chain ASDA to pay farmers to go organic
• PANUPS: Resource Pointer #234 (Ag. Chemicals)
• Science is being used as a cult
• re: science is being used as a cult
• Revealed:(UK) GM firm faked test figures
• DEB News: FDA DECEIT - Sick animals make for sick humans
• 12 reasons why the World Bank and IMF must be shut down
• Farmers decry dumping of hazardous GMOs from relief agencies and biotech firms

15 April 2000

• 'Food safety' pamphlet is Liberal spin
• Consumers Reject GM Foods: Poll
• More States Try To Weigh In On Genetically Modified Food
• Live Interview Today (5. April 2000)
• Ontario Soybean Growers Calling for Fair Pricing on Roundup Ready(TM) Soybean Seed
• Greenpeace Launches Campaign Against Kellogg
• Coke Scion Joins Protest Against Genetically Engineered Ingredients
• Ad Campaign Aimed at US Attitudes Toward Crops
• Biotech Industry Uses Antiquated Weapons To Battle Adversaries
• A "Substantial" Challenge to GM Food Regulations
• Protesters assail US study as pro-biotech, not impartial
• Ottawa Attacked over GM Food Campaign
• Statement by Steven M. Druker, JD: Biodeception
• Organic foods vs. supermarket foods: Element levels
• Hawai: Big Isle papaya crops tainted
• Church of England wants moratorium on GM crops
• Letter to: The Right Honorable Prime Minister, Jean Chretien.
• Canada: Government paying to lobby itself
• Transgenic salmon farm in PEI seeks U.S. approval
• Environmentalists alarmed over giant GM fish
• Villagers force a halt to crop trial
• FAO official sees risks from gene foods
• Percy Schmeiser: David and Goliath in a food fight

14 April 2000

• Organic Cropland Doubled in 1990s (US)
• GM tree in North America
• GM tree in Europe
• Statement by Dr. Olden, NIH 2001 President's Budget
• Vandana Shiva Calls for Food Freedom Zones
• Ethical Issues Trouble Human Genome Researchers
• Biotechnology: New danger or solution to Africa's food deficit?
• Percy Schmeiser on Dutch TV
• Sri Lanka bans import of genetically modified food!
• RAFI Genotype – Revised Patent Policy
• Botany vs Biotechnology
• plastic genes
• DNA Banks for Endangered Animal Species
• Transgenic Crops Report Fuels Debate
• Monsanto's Rice Puding

8 April 2000 South African News

• South Africa: International Soy Conference Pretoria 21 06 2000
• South Africa: Invitation to AfricaBio Symposium 1st August 2000
• AfricaBio: one-day Symposium on 1st August 2000
• Risky Milk in South Africa!
• rBGH: Formula For Disaster!
• US Attorney Challenged European Governments over Careless Attitude towards GMO Foods
• South Africa: The GE Freeze campaign is happening!!

7 April 2000

• Monsanto: Scientists Achieve Major Breakthrough in Rice
• Biotech rivals team up in effort to sell altered food
• Organic Farming Increasing, USDA Reports
• royal society guidance for editors
• Biotechs Getting Cold Feet
• Farmers unite (to source organic seed)
• Population Quiz – Do we need GE to feed a shrinking population?
• Robert Cohen article
• Misuse of Southern hemisphere Hunger and Poverty as an argument for GE
• GM foods and the luxury of choice
• Greenpeace: Melchett tells court of his fear of GM crops
• GM foods as human experimentation
• US firm announces big step in genome research
• De-toxification: Phytoremediation Market Report and Industry Directory

5 April 2000 South African edition

• Terminator and Traitor Technologies Target Global Seed and Food Supply
• Commodifying Human Experience: An Interview with Jeremy Rifkin
• Ontario Farmers Slash their Use of Insecticides
• GE Soy Contaminates Organic Food
• Southern Africa After the Year 2000 Floods: Seed-initiative
• Reportback from Biodevastation 2000
• South Africa: Please comment on Marie Claire GE article NOW
• Concerns Regarding The Use Of Biotech In Developing Countries
• "Glyphosate (Round-Up) a Few Useful References"

4 April 2000

• GM safety tests defective !!! - EU regulator breaks ranks
• GM Regulation, Law & Economics
• Biotechnology companies ready to launch joint advertisement campaign
• Field Trials of GM crops in the developing world
• Insect Population Control using a Dominant, Repressible Lethal Genetic System
• a magical tree: Moringa
• Monsanto fined $250 Million
• Antibiotics in Animal Feed--A Growing Public Health Hazard
• GM crops and deformities
• one level of explanation of GE delusions
• Monsanto'S New Boss Is Bullish
• Troubling backlash | Biotech companies worry
• Cloning: Britain leads again!!!!
• More protests against genetically modified food
• Survey says Canadians worry about GM foods
• Washington Post on the A16 Mobilization
• Loan Practices Of World Bank, IMF Targeted

1 April 2000

• Financial carrot for GM farmers
• potato -all we need to eat
• Monsanto to sell NutraSweet for $440 million
• baculovirus insecticides
• L tryptophan - EMS expert
• Should we worry over genetically altered foods?
• Eliminating Antibiotic Res Genes
• tests for GM crops in fed animals
• Biotech Database – OECD
• Bee-t cotton
• THE DNA-SEQUENCING BUBBLE
• nature biotech apologizes?
• Important biotech article posted on web
• Virus genes: stinking smut
• Bt resistance management
• field test of virus
• A Cold-Hearted Gene
• Isolating the Meningitis Gene: can any good come out of these sequences?

31 March 2000

• Participants to differ on safety standards for GM foods
• Fantasy and fact
• Who owns your DNA?
• Support needed for State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazi,
• Anti-GM foods campaigners vow int'l cooperation for safety
• EU's highest court to rule on French GM crop ban
• Food industry rises to the demand for non-GM food
• US green groups prod FDA to tighten biofood rules
• Genetic ID's New GMO Tests Can Save U.S. Corn Exports to Japan; Restore Exports to Europe
• USDA Betrays Public Trust with Two New Terminator Patents
• Terminator 2 Years Later: Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track
• Bank Warns Against Biotech
• Japan Firms Switch
• Bugs Love "Poison" Crops
• Shareholders Demand Ban
• Animal Feed Safety
• Canadians Mobilize
• Corn Growers Say No
• Italy Suspends Seven Crops
• Woolworths S. Africa bans GE foods
• Europe to act on GM pollution of organic farms
• Thousands of Protesters Rally Before Start of Biotech Convention
• 1,500 March in Boston to Protest Biotech Food
• Protesters Rally Against Biotechs
• Magazine insert leaves a bad taste: Ottawa pushes safety of bio-engineered food
• Modified Food Vote in Mexican Senate
• Modified-food policy hypocritical
• GM Canola Allegedly Dumped
• DYSFUNCTIONAL SCIENCE: Towards a "pseudoscientific world order"?
• National Poll And Cross-country Protest Demonstrate Consumers Won't Be Fooled By Ge Foods
• Farmers Shy Away From Biotech Crops

26 March 2000

• Genetic Engineering of Trees
• Genetically Modified (GM) Foods and Crops are Unsafe
• Monsanto's Cry3Bb corn
• good news from the Netherlands
• Robert Cohen: Truth or Consequencs
• Errors, gene sequencing, patents
• wot no side-effects?
• Monsanto says rBGH safety is not an issue
• Genetic Cranberries: UW Professor Explores the Possibilities
• MEDICAL ETHICS: Principles for Human Gene Therapy Studies
• "Trust me, I'm an expert" - The Royal Society's "Guidance for editors"
• How to Engineer Society to Accept Science as Usual
• Moral Hype
• Report on the Dispersal of Maize Pollen
• New terminator patent: US5723765: Control of plant gene expression
• patent US5977441: Control of plant gene expression

21 March 2000

• One in five products in survey contain GE crops
• Mike Moore (WTO) speaks
• A Call for Sharing of Research Causes Gene Stocks to Plunge
• GM crops – are they safe ?
• Why Greens Should Love Pesticides
• Exclude Human Genes from patent system
• double standard
• Arguments for GE Food Withdrawal
• Food industry rises to the demand for non-GM food
• Moments of Shocked Silence About Biotechnology
• Tests spark fears of genetic underclass
• Hawaii: Planned invasion of biotech trees
• Monsanto website discusses horizontal gene flow from canola

16 March 2000

• Monsanto spuds with virus -insect resitance
• Saudi Arabia Suspends Imports of Canned Tuna from Thailand
• Another merger: Novartis and AstraZeneca
• Aventis sues Monsanto over cotton patents
• The Flagship of the Fleet: GE Insulin
• Codex , what is a vegetarian
• GM group hits out over chemicals
• UN meetings tackle GM safety, labelling
• some GE flops
• Electronic FAO debate
• Hostility to GM food may cause new brain drain
• threats of flouncethru
• U.S., U.K. to share genetic data
• PPL Produces World's First Cloned Pigs
• Pigs Cloned For Transplants
• 90 scientists: GE food must be withdrawn from the market

13 March 2000

• Canadian Senate Hearings
• Lawyer's challenge to US over GM safety claims
• EDINBURGH – Concerns About Genetically Modified Food
• Cover-up over GM food safety exposed
• Consumer advocates throw down gauntlet on transgenic foods
• Challenge to US as Edinburgh talks open
• Hidden risks of grafting genes into foodstuffs
• Dow Jones Agriculture Groups Call For Curbs On Genetic Eng...
• Row Over Food Labels Boils Over At Summit
• Resolution Passed By The Boston City Council
• Genetically Modified Food For Thought
• Bakery to Make GM-free Cookies
• Farmers Warned of Uncertainties With Crops Genetics
• Fewer US farmers to plant modified corn- NCGA poll
• Genetic engineering does not yield pesticide reduction
• Challenge to OECD Conference to Call for Withdrawal Of Genetically Engineered Foods
• EU keeps moratorium on new GM crops
• GM Salmon
• Australian Response To The Proposed Gene Technology Bill
• EU Halts Franken Crops
• Victory for Organic Consumers & Farmers: The USDA Surrenders
• Virus Problems From Pig to Human Transplants
• Corn Growers Question Need To Sacrifice Export Markets Due To Genetically Modified Crops

29 February 2000

• Pharmacia&UpJohn in payment for organs scandal
• Stealth Virus And Viteria
• BAN literature, pamphlets, articles, videos and bumperstickers
• European Patent Office Admits Genetic Patent Error
• GMO fish and extinction
• Anything for a Buck.
• US: The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-know Act, S. 2080
• new Bt corn with no refuge
• The Thalidomide Of Genetic Engineering

27 February 2000

• More Gene Therapy Experiments Are Suspended
• In a hearing, Ashcroft assails new accord on gene-altered food
• Concerned Citizens at Conference Call for Freedom of Speech on Genetic Engineering
• Nestle to Phase Out GE Food in Hong Kong
• Patients May Have Been Given HIV
• AIDS Exposure in Gene Trial?
• Updates on Shiv Chopra and Health Canada Scientists
• Sustainability and Ag Biotech
• Canola seeds tested for herbicide resistance
• Hard Times Hit Biotech Agriculture Growing Opposition To Engineered Plants
• Health Canada may be in Contempt of Parliament
• Tightened Biotech Crop Regs Urged
• Illinois farmers must make genetic engineering choices
• Genetically altered crop plantings seen down
• Green Group: World GM Crop Plantings to Decrease
• Many GE Scientists Questioned for Conflict of Interests
• Tightened Biotech Crop Regs Urged
• Poor Roundup-ready Soya Performance And Varietal Purity Problems Continue
• TNC-Pharmacia&UpJohn in payment for organs scandal
• Two articles in the recent fortune mag (feb 21 -- URLs)
• Environmentalists Applaud Move by Sen. Boxer to Seek Genetically Engineered Food Labeling
• Dolly dispute
• Something Fishy With Transgenic Fish
• Terminator 2 Years Later: Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track
• Treaty fails to assuage fears about food Source:
• Greenpeace Vows to Cling on to U.S. Ship
• Toxin Seepage from Biotech Corn
• Monsanto's Soy is Cracking Up
• New Plant Viruses
• Government Deal on Biotech Spuds
• GE Foods in Canada
• Gene Therapy Death
• Farmers Beware

20 February 2000

• Scientist backs system for labelling GM foods
• Novartis withdraws application for German GM corn
• Monsanto official says biotech will not feed world
• Scientists say demands for financial gain threaten public health by concealing dangers.
• Germany Bans Novartis Bt Corn In Antibiotics Move
• Benbrook AAAS Paper Posted
• Minnesota first to introduce a bill in support of a moratorium
• Farmworker Community Poisoned by Pesticide Drift
• KFC: Does anyone know if these "ex-chickens" are really GMO's?
• Monsanto Under Attack - Setbacks from Brazil, to Canada, to the U.K.
• US Legal: Softly moving in the dark of night
• No evidence of toxic bacteria in organic produce

18 February 2000

• GMOs in animal feed must be labelled - EU
• Genetic Tinkering For Bigger Catch (Salmon)
• Is Science Outpacing Regulators?
• Info re Organically vs Conventionally Grown Food
• Germany says suspends approval of GM maize
• Secrecy will not resolve controversy.
• The American Farm Bureau (AFB)letter to FRITO-LAY
• questions on stealth viruses, O157:H7
• BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest - How accurate is it?
• US-NLP: Hagelin to Turn Reform Party into GE Referendum
• Seeds offered growers a miracle, but may be just another liability
• US farmers desert GM crops
• No Cover for GM Pollution, Farmers Told
• German health minister bans cultivation of genetically modified corn
• U.S. wheat growers eye GMO challenges
• Food Safety And Organic Products - Dispelling The Myths
• Shiga Toxin and Sex in Bacteria
• Rutgers study re: minerals in crops
• E coli with shiga toxin
• viruses in gene therapy
• EPA forced to shut its website!

16 February 2000

• Re: B-GE: Chinese scientists ready to test genetically modified rice
• IMF chief says: 'We are best friends of the poor'
• Emerging "R&D" Pattern in Genes May Reduce Evolution's Risks
• Firms face battle over Shareholder activists
• Filipino peasants write OECD on GMOs
• Genetically Engineered Tree Alert
• A Letter to the Editor of a Pro-GE article
• Genetically Engineered Vitamin 'A' Rice: A Blind Approach to Blindness Prevention
• USA grows 72% of world's GMOs but 31 million people live in food-insecurity
• Hard Times Hit Biotech Agriculture

14 February 2000

• Plants: Tandem genes threaten biodiversity
• Tandem constructs for superweed prevention
• Quaker Oats Makes Deal with Swiss Firm to Produce Healthier-Food Line
• Tandem Constructions
• Senate GE Labeling Bill to be introduced!!
• UK: 10000 pigs + 270 monkeys killed for xenotransplantation experiments
• irradiation seeds and GE
• The Economist: Farmer's Perspective
• Japan heads for the laboratory in rice war
• GE Food Claims: Benefits for Bone, Heart, Digestion
• Russian scientists test first domestic GM potato
• Fraud behind GM food safety claims SECRET PAPERS
• Viteria? Stealth Viruses!
• Family Farmers Warn: If Your Next Crop is GMO, It May Be Your Last
• Farmers' Declaration on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture

10 February 2000

• BIOWATCH: Something to think about.
• South African NLP Member Thrown off Premises at Africa Bio Meeting
• Biowatch: Triple-resistant Canola Weeds Found In Alta
• GM Potatoes on Hold in US.
• Reply to a Pro-GE Letter to the Editor
• Nearly one in three now eats organic products
• Bad genes (Gene Therapy)
• (GM) Wheat Trails in NZ Suspended.
• "US farmers fear liability over GM crops"
• Only just waking up to the implications
• little-used Dyer review article
• Labelling Rule Sets GM Food Exports Back Several Years
• U.S. FDA FILES: Objections to Use of Antibiotic-Resistant Marker
• GM Crops: Government to Give Go Ahead to Commercial Licensing
• firms jockey for DNA detection contracts
• Irish firm to play a key role in GM labelling
• more on organics
• New: Intercropping Principles and Production Practices
• A note for those who confront the GE dukes

8 February 2000

• Trouble In The Garden
• "Prices rise, but the GM uncertainty won't go away"
• In Japan, It's Back to Nature
• Open discussion; is the raison d'etre of a university
• Biosafety Talks End On Mixed Note
• Greenpeace Claims 'Victory For Consumers' as British Chickens go GM Free!
• Prince Charles wins Green award, Redwood panned
• Book: Genetically Engineered Food: Changing The Nature Of Nature
• Book: Beyond Evolution
• Montreal agreement puts brakes on "frankenfoods"
• Cartagena Protocol Adopted!
• What consumers should know – and can do – about "Frankenfoods"
• Frankenfoods Fight in North America: Consumers Organize & Industry Strikes Back
• Blows Against the Empire: From Oakland to Montreal
• Counterpunch: The Biotech Industry Strikes Back
• What's Next on the FDA Frankenfoods Agenda?

7 February 2000

• letter to fellow activists
• Re: letter to fellow activists
• updated version of 'GE Crops and Contamination'
• sources re: organic food being superior
• A complete GE solution - Everyone Must Know
• More on Frito-Lay & Biotech's Response
• Shooting Up Biotech's "Humanized" Antibodies For Cocaine Addiction
• GE propaganda trick
• The Herald GM watch

6 February 2000

• EU Commission adopts Communication on Precautionary Principle
• New page on the myth of E.Coli / Faecal Contamination
• Re: GE Soydiesel
• scientific conventions
• Measles Vaccine In GM Food
• GTM clowns at Guelph
• Frankenfish or Salmon Saviour? (original article)
• A Sweeter Deal than Expected from Transgenic Sugar Beets
• GM crops to poison rain with mercury
• Re: they're watching us!!!
• Re: mercury GE plants
• New York Times exposes Dennis Avery
• Monsanto to sell sweetener unit for $570 million
• Full text of Biosafety Protocol

4 February 2000

• New Protein Discovered
• What is Sustainable / Organic Agriculture
• Labour In Food System
• Conflict of interest
• GE Soydiesel - "Educate the public on GMO benefits"
• Re: GE Soydiesel
• A lawyer writes... (about Monsanto)
• 100 Molecular Millionaires
• GMO's and academic freedom
• The Soybean Connection - A Worldwatch Institute Brief
• More Diverted Research Funds Found, CDC Misleads Congress

3 February 2000

• America backs down on GM foods
• U.S. Accepts Trade Agreement for Altered Food
• EU welcomes international bio-safety trade pact
• EU Poised to Ban Roundup
• Canada: Suzuki calls for Moratorium
• Biotech Ingredients for Cosmetics
• Thailand Bans Altered Seeds
• Farmers Consider GE-Free Option
• NFFC Farmers Concerned
• Gene Smuggling
• 200 Hundred Health Canada Scientists Speak Out
• Summit agrees to block rogue GM crops as US drops its opposition
• Agreement Reached At Genetic Food Talks
• Environmentalists give cautious endorsement to Biosafety Protocol
• Gene Test Deaths Not Reported Promptly
• Anti-GM farmers start tour
• Frito-Lay Accused of Helping Anti-Biotech Activists
• Cartagena Protocol On Biosafety Adopted
• Deal reached on labeling GMOs
• Canada Lacks Caution On Frankenfoods
• And what is being hidden in GM crops and foods???
• No Biotech Corn for Frito-Lay
• Brazil State declares War on Biotechnology
• Let battle commence
• More Help or More Harm? Genetically Engineered Crops and World Hunger

30 January 2000

• NGO Position Statement
• Study finds "little" cross-pollination.
• GE compared with nukes
• Genetic engineering 'most menacing', says scientist
• Codex Food Labeling Meeting May 19
• Thais resisting Monsanto's BT cotton
• Alert on Biotech Industry using "Organic" as Trojan Horse
• Talks on Biotech Food Turn on a Safety Principle
• Genetic Engineeeing Using Prions
• Gene Therapy Run Amok?
• Profound Understanding of GMOs
• Frito-Lay: Perhaps 150,000 to 200,000 acres
• Re: Perhaps 150,000 to 200,000 acres
• Favorable Outcome to Montreal Talks!
• Green Groups Applaud Intl. Bio-safety Trade Pact
• EU welcomes international bio-safety trade pact
• Countries reach landmark GMO food agreement
• Deal Reached on Biotech Foods
• The bio-battle of words
• GM Food Hazards and the Science War
• No to GMOs – Civil Society vs. Corporate Empire
• Genetic Engineering: A Violation of Natural Law

27 January 2000

• New talks on treaty for genetically altered products face major rifts
• Prof. Anne Clark: Genetically Engineered Foods
• ECUADOR: Activists Block Ship Carrying Transgenic Soy
• EU Appeals for Better Food Labeling
• Green Groups Hope to Influence Biosafety Talks
• Nations Face Off in Montreal on Issues Including Genetically Modified Foods
• Protesters Call For Labels On 'Modified' Food
• America 'set to oppose GM food deal'
• Groups march peacefully ahead of biosafety talks
• Action opportunity: Biosafety Protocol Action
• More internet URLs
• Canadian Oppinion Poll
• EU and US set for GM food clash
• South Africa Sees Genetically-Modified Food
• Engineered Crops Face Barren Season
• British Patent on Cloned Human Cells Raises Ethics Concerns
• Seagram Closes Door on GM Crops
• Canada Under Fire For Stand On Genetically Modified Food
• Association calls for labelling of genetically modified food
• Farmers Seek Genetic Crop Controls
• New food watchdog backs GM labelling
• Genetic Engineering 'Most Menacing', Says Scientist
• Scientists, academics create GM watchdog,
• International GM Safety Rules in Danger – No EU Sell-Out say Greens/EFA
• Monsanto's name radically modified
• Corn Growers Believe Farmers Are Being Deceived Over the Issue of Genetically Modified Crops
• Greenpeace Demands Canada and the US Stop Blocking the Biosafety Protocol
• Genetically modified food stirs up outcry over labels OTTAWA
• GM Foods 'morally wrong': U.S. activist says

26 January 2000

• Secret deal will bring a flood of GM to Britain
• Why the West must swallow gene foods
• Nueremberg Code On Human Experiments
• Yellow Rice and Beta Carotene
• Why is Monsanto being sued for $71 Million?
• New book "Stolen Harvest" by Vandana Shiva
• FDA Botches Public Record of Opinion Statements
• Death exposes risks of gene therapy
• New Study Finds Organic Is Healthier
• Govt leaders respond to Maharishi's plans
• Brit. Patent on Clone Human Cells Raise Concerns
• GM mucous-corn

23 January 2000

• Glufosinate In Water
• "The Problem with Genetic Engineering" Organic Gardening Magazine
• Genetic Engineering Should Be Taken Slowly: Professor
• Court affirms Pioneer Hi-Bred's patent rights
• OTA Calls for Moratorium on Using GMOs in Agriculture
• National Organic Standards Ready
• Sir Robert May
• USDA Biotech Panel Named
• Greenpeace Wins First Round in EPA Lawsuit to Ban Bt Crops
• Gore and Bradley's responses to a GMO question
• US Embassy lobbys for GE foods
• "Democracy is unpredictable"
• Dutch Minister of Agriculture calls for support organic farming
• U$ objects to treaty regulating GM-organism trade
• Gene Therapy Ordered Halted at University
• Good news: The Ban-GEF Archive with Search Engine!

21 January 2000

• BIOWATCH: Quotes from Scientists.
• Urgent! Support GE-free Rio Grande Manifesto Before 16th March!
• Letter Re: USFDA DOCKET#99P-4613.(Monsanto RBgh/RBst)
• US Corngrowers Survey GMO Planting Intentions
• Purdue Corn Specialist Talks Turkey On Transgenics
• GE Listservers and Websites

20 January 2000

• Business and Science in Race to Crack Genetic Code
• Tapping Goats Milk for GE Drugs
• Ghana Checks Influx of Genetically Modified Food
• Monsanto sees GM corn in China in 2001
• More malnutrition with genetic farming forecast
• More internet articles
• M-W Ho: The hazards of genetically-engineered foods
• GUARDIAN editorial on "The gold rush for genes"
• 'Fair Trade' Bananas Reach Britain
• Delta & Pine Land Allegations Unreasonable and Without Merit Says Monsanto
• UK: GM Guidelines May Be Inadequate, Government Told
• Cloning scientists admit GM not same as trad. breeding
• mercury
• From An Organic Farmer
• Sainsbury seek island for organic production
• Farmers told there is no escape from GM pollen
• "Genetic engineering should be taken more slowly: professor"

17 January 2000

• Canola Growers Unsure about GM Seed
• US firm may double cost of UK cancer checks
• Agriculture Canada Study questions higher-yield theory on genetically modified canola
• Law To Protect Native Intellectual Property
• US-MExico Legal Battle Erupts over Patented "Enola" Bean
• Food additives
• Canada: Interview with Hon. Eugene Whelan
• Scientists bypass GM route
• EU Pushes for Environmental Agreement on GMOs In Montreal
• The Economist GE Food Poll
• Saftey, Future Of Genetically Altered Food At Issue In Suit
• Commentary by Elbert van Donkersgoed: Uncertainty
• Dismantling the GE myth - important article
• New EPA Restrictions on Bt Corn!
• Bt. Corn Insect Resistance Management Announced for 2000 Growing Season
• New Restrictions on Biotech Corn
• EPA Restricts Gene-Altered Corn in Response to Concerns
• Genetically Modified rBST Dairy Products
• Austria Urged to Take Initiatives to Protect the Public
• "a victory?"
• Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin (Dipel ES) in the European Corn Borer

16 January 2000

• Farmers to plant less GE crops in 2000
• POLL-Reuters survey of U.S. biotech plantings
• Wheat Acreage is Lowest Since 1972 Farmers Cut Back amid Depressed Grain Prices
• Yellow Rice: Do Not Introduce These Crops, please
• Monkey Cloning Feat Could Aid Disease Research
• GM-free soya for USA products!
• Skepsis about GM-free soya for USA products
• Organic Farms `in Danger From Weak Rules on GM Crops'
• Company Plays Down `Human Milk Cows' Research
• Two Great Articles!
• U.S. renews debate over biotech foods
• Mutant food (the FDA court case)
• US: GM Pact Should Not Supersede WTO

14 January 2000

• Nestle update from Hong Kong
• Britons Seek Tighter Controls on GM Waste
• Public fears bio-tech advances
• Poll about Genetically Modified Foods: Are You Afraid of Eating Them?
• Tesco to ban produce from GM trial sites
• Poll: U.S. farmers plan decline in biotech crops
• Wild salmon face battle for survival:
• GM pollen gaps slated
• Public perception key to future of GMOs
• Huge rise in demand for organic produce.
• Human Gerome Science,Inc. 7,400 pending patents
• Cloning With Not-So-Fresh Cells
• The Nature of the Machine
• Cuban GE in medicin
• Can A Virus Infect Plants And Animals?
• First Successful Gene Transfer in a Crustacean
• Genome Map Near Completion
• The DNA-sequencing Bubble
• Le Monde diplomatique -January 2000 INDEX

12 January 2000 South African Issue

• America backs down on GM foods
• U.S. Accepts Trade Agreement for Altered Food
• Green groups applaud intl bio-safety trade pact
• EU welcomes international bio-safety trade pact
• Countries reach landmark GMO food agreement
• Monsanto drops tainted name
• South Africa: Your chance to question GE promoters in SA
• Genetic Modification: The Shocking Truth
• Trouble in the Garden

10 January 2000

• Seed Companies may yet Reap What They Sow
• Transposons and Endogenous Virus in Plant Chromosomes
• Have GE Foods Undergone Thorough Scientific Tests?
• Update on RiceTec Basmati patent - from RAFI
• Rush To Claim A Little Slice Of Life
• The biotech industry versus the worlds poor

8 January 2000

• First South African retailer bans GM foods
• Farmers Gear for Fight over GMO Foods
• Words of warning; When scientists talk of 'absence of evidence' of risk, take cover.
• Retailers dropping bio-foods
• The Fear Over 'Frankenfood'
• What We Mean by "GM-free" Foods
• US Retailers to yank GM foods from shelves
• Artic Microbes & Mercury
• Guinea Pigs In the Genetics Revolution
• Delta royalties to Monsanto are removed
• Unexplained Harm
• Dangers in the home: Mercury
• GM cotton - health risks?
• Health Benefits Of Organic Food Explored
• Nuclear Genes In Plants
• Biosafety alert from ISIS

6 January 2000

• Opposition to GMOs starting to take root in Japan
• Uncertainty Continues to Plague Genetically Modified Crops into the New Year
• Retailers dropping bio-foods
• First GM tolerance transfer is feared in Canadian OSR
• 'Contaminated' farm seed sold in genetic mixup
• Nature Frustrates Efforts to Confine the Spread of Genetically Modified Plants
• GreyHair Gene Therapy
• Bioengineering Silkworms
• DNA: A new letter in the code
• Delta and Pine Land Company Announces Receipt of $81 Million from Monsanto
• Ministers announce expert scientific panel on the future of food biotechnology
• Organic Food Proven Healthier
• Lifespan extension
• Good food needs green farms

3 January 2000

• Sick of GMOs? Speak Truth to Shareholders
• New Book about GE from Dr. Martin Teitel
• Despite Protestes, A Few Newbies Try To Invent Next Generation Plants
• Transgenic and Mad Cow Disease
• GE Future Products: Science Invades Pantry
• Prince Charles' Millenium address on GM and Nature
• Commercialization of Genetic Research and Public Policy
• Gene Researchers Face Crisis As Man's Saviour Turns Killer
• Gene Therapy: Death Raises Question of Ethics, Profit, Science
• Jellyfish Gene in Monkey Embryo
• Percy Schmeiser: Seeds of Doubt
• Crops patented worldwide

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