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European Union Approves GMO Potato

March 9, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

The European Union has traditionally rejected approval of GMO vegetables but in a surprising reversal, the EU has approved a GMO potato, which critics fear the plant could spread antibiotic-resistant diseases to humans, as Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts write in The Independent,
The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of [...]

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Court Case Over GMO Sugar Beets Continues

March 7, 2010 Environment

The Growing Edge reported almost a year ago on the initial court battle of Frank Morton’s seed company, Wild Garden Seeds, against Monsanto and its Round Up Ready sugar beets. His lawsuit is ongoing in the Ninth Circuit Federal Court in San Francisco as Jeff Barnard writes for the Associated Press,
Organic farmers fear that this [...]

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Lawsuit Filed Over GMO Crops In Nature Refuge

March 5, 2010 Environment

Carey Gillam reports on Reuters,
Environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, accusing the service of illegally allowing farmers to grow genetically modified crops in a national wildlife refuge.
The groups said up to 80 other national wildlife refuges across the United States are now growing genetically engineered crops and could be [...]

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GMO Crops Facing Meltdown In The USA

February 15, 2010 Environment

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho writes on the Institute of Science in Society web site,
Two traits account for practically all the genetically modified (GM) crops grown in the world today: herbicide-tolerance (HT) due to glyphosate-insensitive form of the gene coding for the enzyme targeted by the herbicide, 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS), derived from soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and [...]

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Former Head Of Monsanto India Alleges Company Faked Data For Approval

February 14, 2010 Environment

Dinesh C. Sharma’s article on IndiaToday.in claims the ex-chief of Monsanto’s operations in India resigned because he felt the company was exploiting India and used “fake scientific data” to gain governmental approval of its genetically modified seeds,
The debate on genetically modified (GM) brinjal variety continues to generate heat. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi [...]

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Monsanto Rolls Out Its Vegetable Seeds Division

February 11, 2010 Environment

It is THE big question many gardeners are asking when they order their vegetable seeds this year: Are these seeds from Monsanto? In the past few years, Monsanto has been on a buying spree, gobbling up many of the major vegetable seed companies around the world that supply the retail and mail order seed companies. [...]

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India Says No To Genetically Modified Crops

February 10, 2010 Environment

Finally somebody is standing up to the GMO steamroller and refusing to rubber stamp them without some real science to verify their safety to the public. Yasmeen Mohiuddin writes on Agence France-Presse (AFP),
India refused to grant permission Wednesday for the commercial cultivation of its first genetically modified (GM) food crop, citing problems of public trust [...]

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While Global GMO Acreage Surges, Herbicide-Resistent Weeds Thrive

February 7, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Tom Philpott writes on grist.org,
Global acreage of genetically modified crops jumped 12 percent in 2007 — “the second highest increase in global biotech crop area in the last five years,” gushes a report from the pro-GMO International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
Farmers planted an additional 30 million acres of GM crops in [...]

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US Supreme Court To Hear Monsanto GMO Case

February 7, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

The outcome of this case involving genetically modified alfalfa may be more important for what it means to another biotech crop, gmo sugar beets which is the subject of another court case.
Monsanto petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that prohibits the planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa until regulators complete a more [...]

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Was 2009 The Year The World Turned Against GMOs?

February 5, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews write on theecologist.org,
2009 was a year in which the biotech industry, Gates and their US Administration allies did everything in their power to drive the world down the GM road, but it was also a year marked by remarkable global resistance.
It was a year too in which the truth emerged [...]

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