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The Canadian Government is proposing to allow contamination of our food supply with genetically engineered foods that have not been approved for safe eating in Canada. The government wants to allow 0.1% or higher of our food to be contaminated with GM foods that have not been approved by Health Canada for safe human consumption but have been approved in at least one other country where our government has confidence in that regulatory system. The federal government calls this “Low Level Presence” or LLP and argues that this “low level” of contamination from unapproved GM foods is not harmful.
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network - CBAN
In the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, we have seen first-hand the critical connection between water and nuclear power. In fact, power generation and water are intertwined—producing energy requires water, and providing that water uses energy.
UCS | Union of Concerned Scientists
Cavefish: A Study in Evo-Devo : Check out this interview with William R. Jeffery. The surface-dwelling ancestor of cavefish and its cave-dwelling descendents coexist today, providing insights into evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo).
