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[Outdoor and Andinia News] Find Commercial Beehives Contaminated with Genetically Engineered ...: After analyzing historical records and climate model data for two major U.S. droughts in the 1930s and 1950s, NOAA scientists found two very different causes, shedding new light on our understanding of what triggers drought. Studies such as this one that expand our insights into drought are essential for improving forecasts and can aid in the creation of an early warning system to help communities take precautions and prepare.

[True Food Network - News and Events] True Food Network :: News and events: Says Greenpeace Japan GE Campaigner Sachiyo Tanahashi, “Australia is Japan's main source of GE-free canola and Japanese companies will now have to look elsewhere for a non-GE product. We don't understand why Australian farmers would want to grow a product that consumers are rejecting all over the world.”

[Food Magazine] Get the good oil on oils: Australia’s first small-scale commercial GE canola crops were harvested in NSW and Victoria last year and this year for the first time, Australia’s main grain handler, GrainCorp, confirmed it will mix in GE canola with the main crop.

[Green living tips - Blogs] Genetically Modified Honey: Monsanto's GE canola is "Roundup ready", meaning that it is resistant to the Roundup herbicide (glyphosate) - so farmers can't use it to try and control the invading GE canola plants; forcing them to use more potent herbicides should it come to it.

[Kissing frogs & eating snails] Kissing frogs & eating snails: Genetically engineered food: it's ...: I have previously worked on-staff for BBC Australian Good Food, Australian Table, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan and SHE, and freelanced for titles including Epicurean, Country Style, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Live This, Pure Health, Practical Parenting, Bride-to-be and Arts Craft International. I am a versatile writer with a talent for delivering accurate, relevant and engaging copy aimed at a targeted audience.

[Care2 News Network] Ireland Bans Genetically Modified Crops - Care2 News Network: Home - Institute for Responsible TechnologyGenetically modified foods are linked to toxic and allergic reactions, sick, .Ask your natural foods retailer to place a Non-GMO Education Center in their .

[Greenpeace Australia Pacific] Greenpeace Australia Pacific » Blog Archive » Would you sow GE ...: Yield results are especially important for farmers because of the high costs involved with GE crops - stewardship fees, royalty fees and the cost of the seed itself, all of which form part of an onerous, legally enforceable agreement.

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Aussie Canola Contaminated by GM Material: There is a huge body of evidence that putting novel genetic structures into complex organisms and releasing them into complex systems is unbelievably unpredictable. Here is what Dr Lonsdale of CSIRO said about unpredictability at an OECD conference in 2002:“It may take decades, or even centuries, for the full ramifications of a new biological introduction to be played out” (185)

[The New Resilient] Genetically Engineered Wheat Rejected Globally, Groups Remind Monsanto: In 2004, Monsanto withdrew its applications for approval for GE wheat in Canada and the U.S., due to intensive consumer and farmer protest. The wheat is engineered to be tolerant to Monsanto's brand-name herbicide Roundup.

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Farmers Reject 'Testing' Funded by Greenpeace: I understand that the farmer in question estimates the commercial value of his herbicide resistant canola crop to $ 50,000. Now the farmer assisted by Greenpeace Australia is trying to clean up his land based on by hitting the mixed TT canola ( a herbicide resistant strain of canola derived through mutational breeding) and Liberty Link canola (the engineered crop that is resistant to another herbicide) allegedly growing on his land with liberal amounts of a herbicide , atrazine, that will wipe out the offending canola but is under investigation for its bad effects on the environment in EU .

[Janez Potočnik: Theme of the week] European Commission - Janez Potočnik: Theme of the week » Blog ...: Želeo bih da kažem da je moguće promeniti svet putem blogova./I would like to say that it is possible to change the world by blogs./TakoÄ‘e bih hteo da obratite pažnju na genetski modifikovane proizvode, a posebno kukuruz./I would also like You to pay attention on GM products, and especially maize./Ako počnemo menjati neÅ¡to Å¡to je već dobro onako kako je, mislim da nećemo moći da se zaustavimo./If we start to change something that is already good the way it is, i think that we won’t stop./Nažalost, joÅ¡ uvek nismo naučili kako živeti u skladu sa prirodom, zato Vas molim da podržite svog kolegu komesara Stavrosa Dimasa i glasate protiv odobravanja GM proizvoda./Unfortunately, we haven’t learnt zet how to live in harmony with nature, so i ask to support Your colleague Comimissioner Stavros DImas and vote against authorisation and affirmation of GM products.

[Monsanto According to Monsanto] What Do Monsanto and Food, Inc. Have in Common? Intellectual ...: and as was mentioned before scientists who run the tests in the FDA and USDA are paid by Monsanto and other seed companies not to push their seed and traits through regulatory but they have to pay for their own tests (as was mentioned above). Also, someone said that there is enough food its just a matter of distribution, whether or not that is true I am unaware of, but I doubt that and really doubt that in the next 30 to 40 yrs but what will happen when a new virus or bacteria causes the next black plague and we’re not prepared for it?

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: GM Canola to Power New Biofuels Plant?: canola trait was approved by the Australian Office of Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) in December 2003, but has not yet been commercialised in Australia following the imposition of State Government moratoriums in the major canola growing States".

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