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[SPECTREZINE weblog] SPECTREZINE weblog » Blog Archive » Call for moratorium on GMOs in ...: commercial planting of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the wake of six EU member states banning the planting of MON810 and in light of the rapid increase in GMO-free regions in Europe, there has never been a better moment .

[Prism Webcast News] GMO Moratorium: The way forward for Europe » Prism Webcast News: The participants of the 5th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions “Food and Democracy” call for an EU-wide moratorium on the authorization and the commercial planting of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

[Consumers Union of Japan] 5th GMO-Free Regions Conference: Over 260 regions, more than 4500 municipalities and other local entities and tens of thousands of farmers and food producers in Europe and Japan have declared themselves “GMO-free” expressing their commitment not to allow the use of genetically modified organisms in the agriculture and food in their territories.

[the irresistible fleet of bicycles] A GMO-Free Europe?: The participants of the 5th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions “Food and Democracy” call for an EU-wide moratorium on the authorization and the commercial planting of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

[WRS Podcasts] WRS | 'Food and Democracy' on the table in Lucerne: Here in Switzerland, the government suggested extending a moratorium on the commercial planting of genetically modified crops, and member states of the European Union have rejected the idea that the cultivation of GMOs should be approved centrally.  Representatives from GMO-free regions in Europe met in Lucerne to discuss the way forward, as WRS’s Vincent Landon reports.

[Prism Webcast News] GMO Moratorium: The way forward for Europe: call for an EU-wide moratorium on the authorization and the commercial planting of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the wake of six EU member states banning the planting of MON810 and in light of the rapid increase in GMO-free regions in Europe, there has never been a better moment for a moratorium than now.

[CHANNEL CANADA] CHANNEL CANADA :: Free Preview of documentary This June Gives ...: With 17,500 employees, a 2006 earning of $7.5 billion and operations in 46 countries, Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. Since its founding in 1901, the company has faced numerous trials due to the toxicity of its products, from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), to devastating herbicides like Agent Orange, used during the Vietnam war, and bovine growth hormones, which are yet unauthorized in Canada and banned in Europe.

[The Institute of Science in Society] Golden Rice and Hazards of GMOs: GR1 was made with the standard ‘first generation’ genetic modification techniques, using GM constructs that cause uncontrollable mutations and other collateral damage to the host plant genome, with many unintended, uncharacterized effects [1]. In addition, the viral and bacterial sequences, including antibiotic resistance marker genes, in the construct and in the vectors created for gene transfer enhance horizontal gene transfer and recombination, the main route to creating new pathogens and spreading antibiotic resistance.

[BioTech 177] Genetically Modfied Organisms (GMOs) - Paul Yang: The GMO resistance in Europe is strong than any other regions in the world. And there are coutries for example India favor GMOs.

[IPLJ] Protection for Genetically Modified Organisms: Perhaps when GMOs are “lost,” adverse possession should kick in. Congress should clarify infringement for self-reproductive organisms, .

[The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing.] Parallel universes: A rice farmer's point of view on U.S.-European ...: Inoculated Mind:  Thanks for your comments.  I do consider myself quite informed, thank you very much.  As for your reports, you are correct that I do not trust industry reports.  I have had to correct industry scientists who should know better several times, and spent too much time rebutting false arguments to believe much of what they say anymore.  USDA reports are often no better.  The Economic Research Service that you cite puts out faulty supply and demand numbers for rice all the time, which causes marketplace swings that are out of line with reality.  In my opinion, USDA’s  biotechnology position is promotion no matter the cost to farmers.  APHIS, the division of USDA which is supposed to oversee all GE research trials, is basically inept (see the long grain contamination story above), as noted in the Government Accountability Office report issued about a year ago.  And if I’m not mistaken, didn’t the USDA decide to stop tracking pesticide use last year?  Even if pesticide use did dip, and I’m not saying it did, now we’ll never know the long term trend.  As noted here on the Ethicurean, “Everything looks better when your head is in the sand.”

[Custom Essays, Term Papers, Research Papers, Writing Help and Writing Tips] Genetically Modified Food Essay | Custom Essays, Term Papers ...: This includes food with genetically manufactured organisms, food with an intentionally modified molecular structure, and food that has been isolated for microorganisms, fungi, and algae. Furthermore, the genetically altered food must not mislead the consumer, present any danger to the consumer, or differ from the food that it is intended to replace so that the altered food is a nutritional disadvantage to the consumer (Tackling Food Safety Concerns over GMO’s, Development of methods to identify foods produced by means of genetic engineering).

[NeuroLogica Blog] NeuroLogica Blog » GM Corn: I wouldn’t suggest using GM for anything intended to be released into the wild except for very rate situations (primarily organisms for cleaning up dangerous chemicals like oil spills or superfund sites). I think genetically modifying endangered species is extremely dangerous.

[Front Page] American Daughter Media Center - Front Page » Blog Archive » The ...: Since the Obama administration moved into the White House 64 days ago, it has zealously gone forward with plans to disarm law-abiding Americans and demonize them as domestic terrorists, pass laws to protect every form of sexual perversion imaginable, betray injured enlisted service personnel, dump everyone’s personal history into a massive health information database, fund legions of conscripted “Obama youth (and Obama seniors) into “volunteer” service, provide amnesty for Mexican illegals and take direct control of the Bureau of the Census to phony up statistics to justify government service agency expansion and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of imaginary stimulus dollars to finance some of the greasiest pork projects in U.S. history.

[The "NOAH" Prophecy] Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause ...: With the US government failing to prevent GM contamination, and with state governments and agriculture commissioners unwilling to challenge the dictates of the biotech industry, some California counties decided to enact regulations of their own. California’s diverse agriculture is particularly vulnerable and thousands of field trials on not-yet-approved GM crops have already taken place there.

[请勿打扰的博客] 感受地球呼吸 - 3_请勿打扰_新浪博客: Although thesegenetically modified organisms (GMO) are still the subject ofprohibitions and sharp controversy all over the world, notablybecause of the limited knowledge of their effects on health and theenvironment, their cultivation is widespread in Argentina, Canada,and especially the United States, where half of all soya isgenetically modified.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Absolute must read: Australia ...: We can (hopefully) avoid total devastation of the US and world society (by the end of the century) if we get our act together, but big parts of the US will still go through alot of what Australia is seeing now (in that article), some of it fairly soon. The auquafer that underlies Colorado (crop circles flying into Denver) south through Texas has been depleted at much higher than replenishment rate for years (think that will get better as the droughts continue and get worse?) with expectations for much of it to run out in the next decade or so at current rates - the obvious conclusion is that we’re going to loose big sections of US croplands in the medium term future (whether its from tapping out the underlying auquafer or actual drought above ground or diminishing snowpack), it won’t matter to most people it will look like what Australia is seeing now.

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