Blogposts tagged 'Genetic Engineering'

Peddling ecological farming in India

Posted by reyestirado - 17 June 2009 at 4:49pm - 3 Comments

Reyes works for Greenpeace's Research Labratories and is normally based in Exeter but she's just begun a year long project working with our office in India. Reyes already wrote for the blog relay last month but we convinced her to write a monthly update about her adventures in India and here's her first update.

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Antibiotic resistance and Syngenta's Bt 10 Maize

Publication date:  23 May, 2005

By Dr. Sue Mayer, Executive Director, GeneWatch UK

Summary

In May the journal Nature revealed that Syngenta had inadvertently produced and distributed a variety of GM maize, Bt 10, which did not have regulatory approval. Several hundred tonnes of the Bt10 maize was grown and distributed in the US between 2001 and 2004 and possibly exported elsewhere.

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Genetically engineered rice: illegal and unwanted in China

Publication date:  21 March, 2005

Summary

Greenpeace has discovered that GE rice seeds have been sold and grown commercially for a number of years. The GE rice is illegal, and has not been approved as safe for either human consumption or the environment. It has entered the Chinese food chain and environment, and may have contaminated Chinese rice exports.

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Syngenta contaminates US maize with illegal GM variety

Publication date:  21 March, 2005

Summary

Swiss chemical giant Syngenta has admitted it sold hundreds of tonnes of an illegal variety of GM maize to farmers in the USA over the past four years. The illegal GM crop, called Bt10, was modified with a gene from the soil bacterium bacillus thuringiensis, which makes the crop produce its own pesticide to kill insects.

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EC Recommendation: In the Matter of Coexistence, Traceability and Labelling of GMOs

Publication date:  21 March, 2005

Summary:

As European Commissioners gather to debate the future of Genetically Modified (GM) crops and food in Brussels, environment and consumer representatives have exposed an EC Recommendation, guiding member states on GM crops, as legally and fundamentally flawed. The NGOs are calling for the Recommendation to be withdrawn and are calling for an urgent meeting to discuss its legal status and content.

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Background to the WTO GM dispute

Publication date:  27 May, 2004

Summary

At a time when GM food continues to cause controversy worldwide, and the legitimacy of the WTO itself has come under question, the WTO GM dispute between the US and EU looks set to be one of the most challenging in the WTO's history. The outcome of the WTO GM dispute will have major ramifications for the development of the environmental, social and health aspects of trade policy and is likely to have both substantive and symbolic importance worldwide.

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Monsanto out of our food

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

A Greenpeace International briefing prepared for the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, Brazil

Publication date: January 2003

Summary
Monsanto is the leading company responsible for contaminating the environment with genetically engineered (GE) crops. Its products accounted for over 90% of the total area planted with GE crops in the world in 2001.

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions.

What is 'natural'?

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Chris Leaver explained how all food crops were the products of human intervention and made a plea for genetic modification to be used to feed the world, particularly with a growing population.

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The end of the World as we know it

Publication date:  30 March, 2000

The environmental costs of Genetic Engineering

History has shown that the destructive consequences of new technologies may not become apparent for many years. When Du Pont started to produce CFCs in 1931, for instance, they were believed to be totally harmless. It was not until 1975 that their potential to destroy the ozone layer was first recognised and it took a further ten years for this to receive scientific acknowledgment. 

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GM Rapeseed contamination scandal

Publication date:  30 May, 2001

Conventional rape seed (canola) from Canada sold by Advanta has become contaminated with Monsanto Roundup Ready Rape. The contamination happened by cross-pollination to a batch of conventional hybrid rapeseed sold as Hyola 38, Hyola 330 and Hyola 401. The GM variety is Monsanto's RT73 (also known as GT73) and resistant to Monsanto's weedkiller 'Roundup'.

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