GMO News

Genetically Modified coca??

• WIRED investigates roundup-ready coca (11/2004 -- photo on right)
• BBC suggests maybe so (12/2004)

Since summer 2004:

• 1/3 of India's Bt cotton is illegal brown-bagged (NatureBiotech Nov 04)
• Quandry on Soybean Planting in Brazil (NYT 13 Oct 04)

Superpests, animal and plant

• Frankenfish in Lake Michigan

US (&Canada)

• US Eating disorder vs. French (Pollan, NYT Mag 31 Oct 04)
Heretical View of File Sharing (NYT 5 Apr 04)
• Your government's "3rd Man Sources"  (NYT 15 Mar 04)
• The Mad Cow Issue
  • 2nd case in US? (CNN 19 Nov 04)
  • USDA expands BSE testing to 0.6% (at $350 per test!) (NYT 16 Mar 04)
  • beef products & attitudes (NYT 29 Jan 04)
  • cluster of CJ deaths in NY (NYT 14 Oct 04)
• GM pets? (NYT 25 Jan 04)
• Nat Acad Sci: No foolproof way to contain genes (NYT 21 Jan 04)
• Monsanto stops selling in Argentina  (StL P-D 20 Jan 04)
• Canadian Supreme Crt hears Schmeister case (http://www.percyschmeiser.com/)
• Cloned meat coming (Guardian 1 Nov 03)
• US Hunger Increases (AP 31 Oct 2003)
• Anti-trust case against Monsanto & others (NYT 24 Sept 03) ; class action status denied (2 Oct 03); price-fixing charges proceed

Other Third World

• Thailand controversy over GM papaya (WSJ 29 Oct 04)
• GM sweet potatoes fail (Kenyan Nation 29 Jan 04)
• Will cutting US subsidies ruin the 3W?  Opinion and response

Europe

• Abolishing UK bipartisan commission that urged separation (Guardian 29 Dec 04)
• French diet and craziness of organic food (letter re:Pollan, NYT Mag 31 Oct 04)
• UK okays first GM plantings (Guardian 9 Mar 04)
• UK: vCJD victim misdiagnosed in England (BBC 16 Mar 04)
• vCJD cases rises slightly in UK (BBC 2 Mar 04)
• UK: Biggest farmers bans GM crops (NYT 24 Oct 03)
• UK: widespread lack of trust (Guardian 24 Sept 03)
• UK's PUBLIC DEBATE SITE
• GM crops show uptick in pesticide use; UK responds (Guardian 8 Jan 04)
• Continuing US-EU trade friction: the Byrd Amendment (Guardian 15 Jan 04)

Some Human/Animal Issues

• GM Pets
  • Fluorescent Fish
  • California bans fish
• The John Moore Case
  • The Strange Case of John Moore and the Splendid Stolen Spleen
  • Moore vs. Univ. of California
• Hagahai (New Guinean tribe patented?)
• Science article (there is lots more on the web)

Misc

• GM Monkey Born (NYT 1/12/01)
• Biotechnology Food: From the Lab a Debacle (NYT 1/25/01)
• Australians Create a Deadly Mouse Virus (NYT 1/23/01)
• Court Decision of Percy Schmeister (SPD 4/1/01)
• Revolving door between industry & regulation: New EPA #2 from Monsanto (SPD 4/5/01)
• GM debate hits Latin America (OneWorld 12/17/02)
• Debate on the Berkeley-Novartis deal

European Politics

• The Labelling Controversy
  • Europe Approves New Genetically Modified Food Control (NYT 2/15/01)
  • 2/5/03 US Decides to Postpone Suing Europe, Dismisses Labelling (compare to Monsanto's insistence of giving Europeans choice)
• The WTO Claim
  • 12/1/02 Lambrecht, US considers WTO claim
  • 2/11/03 Europeans Resist Gene-Altered Foods
  • 2/21/03 No US decision on WTO complaint after all

Contaminations

• Starlink
  • Starlink in corndogs (NYT /14/01)
  • US buys back contaminated corn (NYT 3/8/01)
• Prodigene
  • Crops modified to produce unidentified chemical contaminates soybeans (NYT 11/13/02)
  • Hazards of vaccines in plants (Guardian 11/20/02)
  • Prodigene pays fine, reveals pharaceutical in corn (NYT 12/7/02)
  • Field of Dilemma (WP 12/23/02)
  • Alarm as GM pig vaccine taints US crops (Guardian 12/24/02)
  • UK accused of burying contamination report (Guardian 12/20/02)
• Unauthorised strain of GM crops in England and Scotland (Guardian 8/16/02)
• GM pigs into food supply (NYT 2/6/03)

Ecology: The Problem of Gene Escape

• Industry View (outcrossing is evaluated and regulated; GM even improves our research on outcrossing)
• Transgenes in Mexican Maize Landraces
  • Ortiz-Garcia et al 2005 find no transgenes in sample of mexican maize
  • Maize conflicting data, Euro fallout (2/02 Nat-Biotech)
• recent containment problems (Nature Biotech)
• Gene Flow from GM Grass (NYT 21 Sep 04)

The southern Africa - GM corn affair

• 9/4/02 Zambian Leader Defends Ban on Genetically Altered Foods
• 1/13/03 Europe's Different Approach to Aid

GM agriculture in the Developing World

• 2/21/03 GM Crops Booming in Asia acc. to ISAAA
• Sen theory of democracy/famine tested (NYT 3/1/03)

WTO, GMO's and subsidies

• Farmers and the point of Seattle WTO protests (Stock & Johnson 2001)
• Why Mexican farmers go hungry (NYT 3/3/03)