GM Contamination Register Information services GENET-news Below you find the postings of the last seven days. 2014-04-17 | permalink USA: Vermont Senate Approves GMO Labeling The Vermont Senate voted 26-2 vote earlier this week, approving a bill to require labeling of foods that contain genetically modified ingredients, the Burlington Free Press reports, speculating that Vermont could be the nation’s first state to enact such a law. 2014-04-16 | permalink USA: President Obama provides clear endorsement of agricultural biotechnology The dedication of Dr. AgriPulse (16.04.2014): USA: President Obama provides clear endorsement of agricultural biotechnology 2014-04-16 | permalink UK: Owen Paterson refused Freedom of Information request about 'Frankenfood' talks Ministers are trying to cover up secret briefings with GM companies hoping to push ‘Frankenfood’ on to dinner tables. Mail Online (16.04.2014): UK: Owen Paterson refused Freedom of Information request about 'Frankenfood' talks 2014-04-16 | permalink 2014-04-16 | permalink Overview News email.
Failure to Yield For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields. That promise has proven to be empty, according to Failure to Yield, a report by UCS expert Doug Gurian-Sherman released in March 2009. Despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields. Failure to Yield is the first report to closely evaluate the overall effect genetic engineering has had on crop yields in relation to other agricultural technologies. The UCS report comes at a time when food price spikes and localized shortages worldwide have prompted calls to boost agricultural productivity, or yield -- the amount of a crop produced per unit of land over a specified amount of time. Herbicide-tolerant soybeans, herbicide-tolerant corn, and Bt corn have failed to increase intrinsic yields, the report found. The report recommends that the U.S.
MONSANTO'S WEB OF DECEIT Monsanto's World Wide Web of Deceit Index "Think of the internet as a weapon on the table. Either you pick it up or your competitor does, but somebody is going to get killed" The following articles detail a Monsanto dirty tricks campaign waged against the company's scientific and environmental critics. In one instance, Monsanto and its PR proxies ran a covert campaign of character assassination against two University of California, Berkeley scientists after they published research in the science journal Nature demonstrating GM contamination of Mexican maize. In another instance, Monsanto's poison pen campaign triggered a libel case that reached the High Court in London. THE COVERT BIOTECH WARThe battle to put a corporate GM padlock on our foodchain is being fought on the net - The Guardian, 19 November 2002 MONSANTO PR FIRM'S ADMISSIONThe Bivings Group says e-mail was sent by someone "working for Bivings" or "clients using our services"
Say No To GMOs! Say No To GMOs! - September 2006 GM Food: A Guide for the Confused Our thanks to UK campaigner and lecturer Luke Anderson, geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou, and Prof Joe Cummins, Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Western Ontario, for helping us through the maze. Q: What are genes? A: Genes are the inherited blueprints for the thousands of proteins that form the building blocks of all life, from bacteria to humans. Q: What is genetic engineering? A: Genetic engineering involves taking genes from one species and inserting them into another. Q: Is genetic engineering precise? A: No. Q: Isn't GM just an extension of traditional breeding practices? A: No - GM bears no resemblance to traditional breeding techniques. Traditional breeding techniques operate within established natural boundaries which allow reproduction to take place only between closely related forms. Q: Could this be dangerous? A: Potentially, yes. A: Dr Cunningham is talking about the concept of "substantial equivalence". Q: Which foods are not GM?
Institute for Responsible Technology - Do we need GM? Non-GM index Here's a list, ordered by year, of some of the non-GM successes we have come across. They include allergen-free peanuts, striga-resistant cowpeas, salt-resistant wheat, beta-carotene rich sweet potatoes, virus-resistant cassavas - exactly the kind of developments that GM is typically claimed to be necessary to achieve. Non-GM potatoes resist potato cyst nematode (PCN) and late blight (April 2014) Drought tolerant maize varieties ready (January 2014) Washington State University develops non-GMO, non-browning apple alternative (January 2014) New disease-resistant pea lines developed (November 2013) Rainbow-coloured corn bred from old varieties (October 2013) Rice gene discovered that triples yields in drought (August 2013) – GM was used as a research tool but the end-product rice was developed using marker assisted selection (MAS) Nigeria releases two extra-early maturing white maize hybrids with combined resistance/tolerance to Striga, drought, and low soil nitrogen (August 2013)
Drought tolerant maize wins 2012 UK Climate Week Award Printer friendly version Share 13 March 2012 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID, has won Best Technological Breakthrough at the UK Climate Week Awards for its support to a project to develop drought-tolerant maize in Africa. The prize was announced at the Climate Week Awards, held in London today to celebrate the UK’s most effective and ambitious organizations, communities, and individuals and their efforts to combat climate change. Known as “Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa” (DTMA, the winning initiative is responsible for the development and dissemination of 34 new drought-tolerant maize varieties to farmers in 13 project countries—Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—between 2007 and 2011. Attached files
Genetically Engineered Trees - Genetic Engineering homepage - programs - genetic engineering - genetically engineered trees: genetic engineering Genetic engineering of food crops has been a stealth technology, introduced with little public debate and arriving on grocery shelves unlabeled. Now another application of genetically engineered (GE) agriculture is sneaking up on us - the production of transgenic trees by paper and lumber companies. This is not to say that every application of GE is bad. Corporations, as Milton Friedman pointed out, exist not to be ethical but to make money. These companies now see an opportunity to engineer trees which grow faster, contain less lignin, are more uniform in their characteristics, are more resistant to disease and so forth. We are often told that commercialization of genetically engineered (GE'd) trees is at least several years away. The threat of GE'd trees interbreeding with wild trees is extreme. Should we object if forestry companies do genetic engineering on their own land?
Say No To GMOs! - Biotech Myths A Geneticist's Opinion about Genetic Engineering in Agriculture R. H. Is genetic engineering a good idea? I am euphoric about the new insights I can teach in my genetics classes. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has been the principle animal of genetic experimentation for a century. In a discussion of the Drosophila genome publication, Brenner emphatically states, But there is one important piece of information that is almost totally missing: the sequence information that specifies when and where and for how long a gene is turned on or off. Gene regulation is the process that primarily distinguishes species, and lies at the root of genetic diseases and abnormal development. Even in medicine, at an individual organism scale, the revolutionary benefits promised by proponents of gene therapy have not yet been realized. Use of genetic technology in medicine has been regulated by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) for 25 years! top of page
Some non-organic foods contain upwards of 180 times the fluoride level of tap water, says expert (NaturalNews) As a follow-up to our earlier report on fluoridated food crops ( the following report explains a bit more about the true toxicity of the food supply in regards to fluoride chemicals. According to fluoride expert Jeff Green, many non-organic foods contain extremely high levels of fluoride because of the pesticide chemicals sprayed on them -- and in some cases, non-organic produce contains up to 180 times the amount of fluoride found in tap water. Fluoride-based pesticide chemicals such as cryolite (sodium hexafluoroaluminate) are commonly used on non-organic food crops because they are highly effective at both killing pests and protecting crops against pest damage. But these same chemicals tend to persist in, and on, produce, where unsuspecting consumers regularly consume them with their everyday meals. You can read Green's full fluoride in food paper here:
Making poisonous plants and seeds safe and palatable: Canola now, cannabis next? Every night millions of people go to bed hungry. New genetic technology can help us feed the world by making inedible seeds more edible, researchers say. There are roughly about a quarter of a million plant species known on Earth. But we only eat between 5,000 and 10,000 of them. "In fact, there are no more than about 100 known species that can be used as important food crops," says Biology Professor Atle Bones at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. But Bones and his research team have made a major discovery. Nobody has done this before, and Bones thinks it could be the beginning of a food revolution. "The principle could be used with other plant species and plant parts," he says. Tiny toxic bombs Canola, or rape, is one of the fifteen most important crop plants in the world. "These 'toxic bombs' are good for the plant, but undesirable in animal feed and human food," says Bones. When canola seeds are pressed, all the vegetable oil is removed. GMO production will double
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