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Greenwashing Biotech

August 30, 2010 Environment

If you are a regular reader of The Growing Edge, you know how I feel about genetically modified crops and that I don’t buy the public relations spin of “feeding the world.” Now the GM companies are introducing a new pr spin, “fueling the world” as Lucy Sharratt reports in CommonGround.ca,
Ten years ago, Monsanto tried [...]

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GMO Apples In The Future As DNA Code Is Cracked By Geneticists

August 30, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

In the future, an apple a day may send you to a doctor since the frankenfreaks of genetic modification  have cracked the DNA code of the apple, opening up the the development of GMO apples. The BBC reports,
A team of 86 global scientists have sequenced the genetic code of the Golden Delicious apple for the [...]

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Wishful Thinking: Frankenwheat To Feed The World

August 28, 2010 Environment

I have ranted before of my opinion on world hunger. I will say it again: It is not a problem of production or yield. It is a problem of industrialized, corporate for profit food companies controlling from seed to harvest the food that the world needs to feed the hungry. We throw away enough food [...]

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All Hat, No Cattle… Biotech Crops Increasing Without Slowdown

August 23, 2010 Environment

This cattle raising bozo informs us he hasn’t met a chemical that he doesn’t love and to shut up, open our mouths while he force feeds us to consume those shitty GMOs…
Keep trying to stop progress you anti-biotech fanatics. It won’t work! Those of us who support biotech and believe in its ability to improve [...]

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GMO Roundup Ready Canola Evolves Into Vexing Weed

August 22, 2010 Environment

I read this article and scratch my head… they are basically saying, “it is nobody’s fault” that GMO Roundup Ready canola seed has jumped the borders of the fields where it was grown and is now considered a “noxious weed.” WTF? This will become the battle cry as GMO plants continue to spread out from [...]

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In The Aftermath Of The GMO Beet Seed Ruling

August 21, 2010 Environment

In the aftermath of the GMO sugar beet ruling, which banned any new plantings until the USDA reviews the potential that the GMO crops could contaminate other crops, some sugar beet farmers are concerned that there may not be enough conventional seed available to plant as Michael J. Crumb reports for The Associated Press,
A judge’s [...]

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GMO Crop Sabotage On The Rise: French Citizens Destroy Trial Vineyard

August 17, 2010 Environment

Rady Ananda reports on the site Info-Wars.org,
Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. [...]

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GM Crops Facing Meltdown In The USA

August 17, 2010 Environment

The bright public relations and sales pitch shine that GM companies painted for their crops is rapidly losing its luster as Dr. Mae-Wan Ho writes about ever increasing problems for genetically modified crops on the Permaculture.org.au site,
Major crops genetically modified for just two traits – herbicide tolerance and insect resistance – are ravaged by super [...]

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Monsanto Spent $2.18 Million Lobbying Government In 2nd Quarter

August 17, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Monsanto Co. spent $2.18 million in the second quarter of this year to lobby the federal government on proposed changes to U.S. patent law and other issues that could affect the world’s largest seed company, according to a disclosure report, The Associated Press reports on Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek.com site.
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GM Crop Escapes Into The American Wild

August 11, 2010 Environment

Concerned environmentalists warned that this would happen: Genetically modified crops would “jump the fence” and spread in the wild as Natasha Gilbert reports on Nature.com,
A genetically modified (GM) crop has been found thriving in the wild for the first time in the United States. Transgenic canola is growing freely in parts of North Dakota, researchers [...]

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