Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors. ST.
LOUIS - Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found. A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready Soy Bean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. The Nation's Oldest College Science Publication – What Am I Eating? The Infiltration of Genetically Modified Foods. A common genetic engineering technique called microinjection.
This technique does not rely on biological vectors such as viruses to insert DNA into a new genome; it simply injects genetic material containing the new gene into the recipient cell. Courtesy of GenerationGreen. Though the thought of glow-in-the-dark cigarettes may seem bizarre, they are actually scientifically feasible to produce.
The glowing tobacco plant, which made its debut in 1986 when scientists at University of California, San Diego inserted the genes of a firefly into the tobacco genome, was one of the first genetic engineering experiments and introduced the world to the concept of genetic manipulation of crops. Since then, genetically modified plants have become ubiquitous in society. The Farmer who Beat Monsanto. By Dr.
Mercola Monsanto has long been trying to establish control over the seeds of the plants that produce food for the world. They have already patented a number of genetically altered food crops, which can only be grown with proper license, and the seeds for which must be purchased anew each year. But genetically engineered crops cannot be contained.And rather than being found guilty of contaminating farmers' property, Monsanto has successfully sued hundreds of farmers for patent infringement. Latter-Day Luther Nails Troubling Thesis to GM Farm & Food Citadels « The Call of the Land: © 2011 – by Steven McFadden Don M.
Huber, Ph.D. After trucking across the high plains for five hours, and casting my eyes over perhaps 100,000 acres or more of winter’s still deathly gray industrial farmland, I came face to face with the newly famous Dr. Don M. Huber in the cave-dark meeting room of the Black Horse Inn just outside the American Heartland village of Creighton, Nebraska. On the morning of March 24, along with about 80 farmers and Extension agents, I listened as Huber discoursed with erudition and eloquence upon industrial farming practices that may be impacting nearly every morsel of food produced on the planet, and that subsequently may also be having staggeringly serious health consequences for plants, animals, and human beings. Huber is emeritus soil scientist of Purdue University, and a retired U.S. Martin Luther nails his theses to the church door. Luther disputed the claim that spiritual forgiveness from sins could be legitimately sold for money. Dr. Don Huber Talks about Genetically-Engineered Foods.
Washington State Bans Genetically-Engineered Salmon. Institute for Responsible Technology - Russia halts imports of GMO corn after cancer study. Russia has suspended imports of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn in light of a French study which linked the crops to cancer.
Agence France-Presse reports: Russia’s consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country’s Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The watchdog has also contacted to European Commission’s Directorate General for Health & Consumers to explain the EU’s position on GM corn. As Salon noted last week, the study found that rats fed Monsanto’s GMO corn, or exposed to its popular herbicide, developed tumors and organ damage, often dying younger than control group rats. Some experts and commentators have viewed the findings skeptically, noting that the lead researcher has long been an outspoken critic of the biotech giant.
However, as Russia’s move illustrates, the study has fueled long-held concerns over GMO crops. Study says genetically modified corn causes tumors, but other scientists skeptical about research - HealthPop. This image from a study in a Seralini et al study in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, shows female rats with mammary tumors that purportedly grew after being fed genetically modified food with and without Roundup herbicide.
Food and Chemical Toxicology (CBS News) A French study that supposedly shows that mice who ate genetically modified corn sprayed with weed killer were more likely to develop tumors, organ damage and die early is becoming a polarizing debate among researchers. The two-year study, which was published on Sept. 19 in Food and Chemical Toxicology, revealed that mice who were fed either a diet of Monsanto's genetically modified maize sprayed with Roundup - the company's brand of weed killer - or drank water with levels of Roundup similar to what is found in U.S. tap water were much more likely to die and at an earlier age, in addition to other health problems.
The study involved 200 albino Sprague-Dawley rats - 100 hundred females, 100 males. Regular Consumption of Sugary Beverages Linked to Increased Genetic Risk of Obesity - September 21, 2012 -2012 Releases - Press Releases. For immediate release: Friday, September 21, 2012 Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is linked with a greater genetic susceptibility to high body mass index (BMI) and increased risk of obesity.
The study reinforces the view that environmental and genetic factors may act together to shape obesity risk. The study appears September 21, 2012 in an advance online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. “Our study for the first time provides reproducible evidence from three prospective cohorts to show genetic and dietary factors—sugar-sweetened beverages—may mutually influence their effects on body weight and obesity risk. In the past three decades, consumption of SSBs has increased dramatically worldwide. The results showed that the genetic effects on BMI and obesity risk among those who drank one or more SSBs per day were about twice as large as those who consumed less than one serving per month.
Center for Food Safety - GE Food Labeling Laws. [X] Collapse Definitions Genetically engineered (GE) foods, sometimes referred to as genetically modified (GM) foods, are created by artificially inserting genetic material from one or more organisms into the genetic code of another using modern genetic engineering techniques.
