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Canadian Government bureaucrat closes GM Watch website temporarily |
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The GM Watch website is back after being shut down for nearly a week after being attacked by a Canadian Government bureaucrat. In an outrageous attack on free speech a Canadian Government bureaucrat succeeded in censoring a UK public interest website which serves a global audience on the GM issue. But his goal went still further than that. The concern was over our expose of research which, according to a spokesman for Greenpeace Canada at the time, was "deliberately skewed to favour Bt corn, out of fear that consumers would reject the controversial technology." For further information go to http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=72&page=1 |
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Consumers Flood FDA With Over 130,000 Comments Opposing Food From Cloned Animals |
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Americans urge agency to adopt a mandatory ban on untested, cloned food.
A coalition of consumer, environmental and animal welfare organizations today announced the submission of more than 130,000 comments to the Food and Drug Administration from consumers who oppose the Agency’s proposed plan to introduce food from cloned animals into the US food supply.http://truefood.blogspot.com/ |
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Down on the Pharm in the UK - from The Guardian, April 30 2007 |
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Scientists are growing GM tobacco engineered to contain an anti-HIV drug in a laboratory based at a London hospital.
The Guardian article that tells the story claims that things are much more relaxed when it comes to pharma crops in North America and quotes Ventria's pharma rice in Kansas as an example. It doesn't mention that Ventria was chased out of California and even out of Monsanto's home state of Missouri when it tried to cultivate pharma rice there. It also wrongly claims that some diabetics "object to" GM insulin as if it were an ideological issue, whereas in fact, their refusal of GM insulin has more to do with its sometimes life-threatening side effects. http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7810 |
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Biofuels: Please take Action |
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The British government is consulting on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. Biofuel targets and incentives already promote more rainforest destruction and thus more climate change, threaten food security and food sovereignty, particularly in the global south, and harm the biodiversity on which all of us depend. Please take part in the consultation and tell the government that we need a moratorium and no targets now. Here you will find an email action where you can raise your concerns http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/index.php |
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Biofuels - the next Genetic Revolution? |
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As the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to give a green light to nukes and large-scale biofuel production, including GMOs, an Ecologist Special Report has been published on the "facts, fictions and fabrications" behind biofuels.
Interesting snippet about how the GM companies hope that we won't mind GM crops grown for biofuels: "Biotech companies ... seek to create a distinction in the public's mind between GM as food (not acceptable) and GM for industrial uses (acceptable)." http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7814 |
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GM crops cause 'breakdown' in Indian farming systems |
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In an article in The Independent, 25 March 2007 by Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor it is stated that genetically modified crops have helped cause a "complete breakdown" in farming systems in India. The study threatens to deal a fatal blow to probably the most powerful argument left in the biotech industry's armoury, that it can help to bring prosperity to the Third World. See the Independent article. |
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Arkansas Plant Board adopts new regulations to purge GM rice trait |
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This article is by David Bennett in the newspaper Delta Farm Express
"Immediately following a meeting of its seed committee, the Arkansas Plant Board unanimously voted to send new regulations aimed at purging trace amounts of a LibertyLink (LL) GM trait from the state's rice supply to public comment." For the full article see http://deltafarmpress.com/news/0761229-gm-rice/
As Colin Holden of Lothian and Borders Bio-check says "Time will tell how successful this exercise will be, and at what cost. This is the sort of procedure that would have to be carried out if/when a transgenic sequence is proven to have an adverse health or environmental impact, and the authorities are forced to act." |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 13 January 2007 )
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New Report: GM Crops still not performing |
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A new report released today (Tuesday 9 January) shows that genetically modified (GM) crops have failed to address the main challenges facing farmers in most countries of the world, and more than 70 percent of large scale GM planting is still limited to two countries (U.S. and Argentina).
Friends of the Earth's new report, 'Who Benefits from GM crops? An analysis of the global performance of genetically modified (GM) crops 1996-2006' [1] also notes that the 'second generation' GM farm crops with attractive 'traits' long promised by the industry has failed to appear.
"No GM crop on the market today offers benefits to the consumer in terms of quality or price, and to date these crops have done nothing to alleviate hunger or poverty in Africa or elsewhere," said Nnimmo Bassey of Friends of the Earth Africa in Nigeria. The great majority of GM crops cultivated today are used as high-priced animal feed to supply rich nations with meat," he added.
According to the report, GM crops commercialised today have on the whole increased rather than decreased pesticide use, and do not yield more than conventional varieties. The environment has not benefited, and GM crops will become increasingly unsustainable over the medium to long term.
In Europe, the report acknowledges a small increase in cultivation of GM maize (up to approximately 1 percent of all maize production) but highlights strong continued opposition to GM crops in the European Union and an increase in the number of European regions declaring themselves GM Free.
The executive summary of the report is available at http://www.foei.org/publications/pdfs/gmcrops2007execsummary.pdf . The full report is available for media upon request from the contacts
above or from media@foei.org. A three-page 'Highlights of the report' is available at: http://www.foei.org/publications/pdfs/gmcrops2007highlights.pdf
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Last Updated ( Friday, 12 January 2007 )
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