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  • GMO : Seeds of Destruction
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by F.William Engdahl
    The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
    This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. "Control the food and you control the people."
    This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate (…)

  • EVIDENCE THAT LINKS OGM FOODS TO ALLERGIC RESPONSES MOUNTS
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Genetically Modified Foods Unsafe? Evidence that Links GM Foods to Allergic Responses Mounts
    by Jeffery M. Smith
    Genetically modified (GM) foods are inherently unsafe, and current safety assessments are not competent to protect us from or even identify most dangers. Overwhelming evidence to support this conclusion is now compiled in the book Genetic Roulette: The documented health risks of genetically engineered foods, which presents an abundance of adverse findings and theoretical risks (…)

  • President Hugo Chavez announced that there will be no more cultivation of GMO in Venezuela
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A socially responsible approach to GMOs (!) http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=301
    (NB : In 2004, Pt Chavez had announced the ban of GMO in the country !)
    Today, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that there will be no more cultivation of genetically modified crops in his country. Although full details are not out, Chavez terminated a 500,000-acre Monsanto project to grow GMO soybeans.
    Brazil and Argentina are still involved in GMO soybean production.
    Chavez said that a policy (…)

  • GMO : Keeping An Eye On Transgenic Crops by David Suzuki
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Thursday, June 14, 2007 by The Rocky Mountain Outlook(Canada)
    Keeping An Eye On Transgenic Crops
    by David Suzuki
    Did you know that genetically modified, or “transgenic” crops are now commonplace on North American farms? According to a recent survey in the United States, the majority of Americans have no idea just how pervasive this technology has become. In fact, North Americans have been eating transgenic foods and using products made from their crops for over a decade. (…)

  • FOOD STANDARD AGENCY FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER GM-CONTAMINATED RICE
    19 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth has taken the first step in mounting a legal challenge to the UK Food Standards Agency for its failure to take appropriate action to prevent illegal GM rice from being sold to the public. The challenge coincides with the discovery, by the environmental campaign group, of GM-contaminated rice in two types of own-brand rice sold by British supermarket, Morrisons [1].
    Friends of the Earth sent a number of rice samples for testing after it was (…)

  • GMO : Independent Scientists Demand A Ban on GM Food & Feed while All GM Crops Are Tested
    20 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Immune Reactions to Transgenic Protein Serious
    Independent Scientists Demand A Ban on GM Food & Feed while All GM Crops Are Tested
    The following memo and report were sent to international and national regulators on behalf of the Independent Science Panel.
    Please circulate widely, forward to your regulators and policy makers, and the press.
    From: Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, member of Independent Science Panel (www.indsp.org), Director, Institute of Science in Society (www.i-sis.org.uk)
    To: (…)

  • SEEDS OF DEATH VS. SEEDS OF LIFE Vandana Shiva
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    , MARCH 2006 (IPS) - In this analysis, Shiva writes that these seeds kill biodiversity, farmers, and people’s freedom — for example, Monsanto’s Bt cotton, which has already pushed thousands of Indian farmers into debt, despair, and death. Bt cotton is based on what has been dubbed ’’Terminator Technology’’, which makes genetically engineered plants produce sterile seeds.
    High costs of cultivation and low returns from genetically modified seeds have trapped Indian peasants in considerable (…)

  • WTO rules put free-trade of agribusiness above national health concerns (GlobalResearch.ca)
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WTO, GMO and Total Spectrum Dominance
    by F. William Engdahl
    March 29, 2006
    In February, a private organization with unique powers over world industry, trade and agriculture, issued a Preliminary Draft Ruling on a three-year-old case. The case was brought by the Bush Administration in May 2003 against European Union rules hindering the spread of genetically-engineered plants and foods. The WTO ruling, which is to be final in December, will have more influence over life and death on this (…)

  • Biotech Foods: International Safety Laws Agreed by Friends of the Earth International March 18
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CURITIBA (BRAZIL), 17 March 2006 - United Nations talks on the global trade in genetically modified (GM) foods and crops ended here today with an agreement on the labelling of GM grains traded worldwide.
    Friends of the Earth welcomed the agreement as a "small step forward" but attacked the biotech industry and the trade interests of a few countries for blocking progress towards better protection for developing countries and the environment.
    The biotech industry consistently opposed clear (…)

  • People eating genetically modified food may have rat-short lifespan
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leading expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for higher nervous activity and neurophysiology, Doctor of Biology Irina Yermakova, conducted an experiment on rats. The rodents are traditionally used for important experiments as they have morphology and biochemistry resembling the human ones.
    The experimental rats were given food containing genetically modified components. The rats survived during the experiment but their conduct seriously changed: they became nervous, anxious (…)