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An article comparing the dietary supplement business to the biotechnology industry
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On March 24, 2000, WEN plans to announce a boycott of tampons and products marketed by Smith & Nephew (Lillets brand) and Proctor & Gamble (Tampax brand) which may contain fibre obtained from GM cotton varieties.
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Extra yields as high as 35% will solve food crisis, say scientific researchers. But critics urge caution
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Excessive regulation of GM foods is misplaced and irrational and will make it impossible for these products to compete in the market
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The London Independent reports that the Social Issues Research Center in Oxford, UK is working closely with the Royal Institution and the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons to establish a new code of practice for science reporting in Britain.
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While the West is slowing development of genetically modified foods because of public apprehension over the technology's safety, the debate continues in the developing world.
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A multi-year, industry-led public information program begins today to share information about agricultural biotechnology with people in the United States and Canada. The program,sponsored by the Council for Biotechnology Information will include a web site, toll-free consumer number, information materials, and television and print advertising.
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Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Norman Borlaug join more than 1,000 other scientists from around the world in endorsing a "Declaration of Scientists in Support of Agricultural Biotechnology."
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Vatican experts voiced a "prudent yes" to genetic engineering of plants and animals, but restated Church objections to human cloning and other biotechnologies that modify the human genetic code.
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has urged research institutes to look into the various properties of starch in an effort to help developing countries compete more effectively in world starch markets.
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Various news stories covering the GM Food debate
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Russian scientists are holding tests on a genetically modified potato, the first Russian modified crop variety, according to an official with the Russian Academy of Sciences' Bioengineer Center. She said the potato variety, which is resistant to the Colorado potato beetle, might start to be used in 2001 if the tests were successful.
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A survey conducted by Ken Frey at Iowa State University shows that plant breeding research and development in the public sector has decreased 2.5 scientist-years per year from 1990 to 1994. During the same period private industry was found to have an annual net growth of 32 scientist-years.
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Genetic engineering is an application of biotechnology involving the manipulation of DNA and the transfer of gene components between species in order to achieve stable intergenerational expression of new traits. In fact plant biotechnology is already changing farming practices and is likely to transform food production and impact the environment in dramatic ways.
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In the vibrant world of biotechnology and genetic engineering, everything seems possible, even a cure for the common cold. Stem cells offer hope to victims of stroke and infant brain damage. We've wiped out some of the most deadly infectious diseases. People are living into their nineties, and more will be doing so in the future.
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The European Commission yesterday unveiled guidelines on how it believes public health can be protected with cautionary trade bans when faced with insufficient or conflicting science.
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Norman Borlaug has a point to insert into the debate over genetically modified foods: Ordinary leavened bread is made from wheat that carries the genes of three plant species. And the genetic engineering didn't happen in the past decade or even the past millennium. Nature spliced the genes before the rise of the Roman Empire.
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Key provisions of the U.N.-sponsored Biosafety Protocol approved by representatives of more than 130 countries in Montreal.
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Russia's Grain Union plans to study and promote the use of genetically modified (GM) grains in Russia, Vladimir Petrichenko, Vice President of the union said. He said the union would hold an international conference in May on the prospects of GM grains in Russia.
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"MAYBE those anti-capitalist, unscientific Europeans are against genetically modified (GM) food. But we optimistic, pro-capitalist scientific Americans know better."
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A major legislative reform is proposed to complete the EU´s "farm to table" approach as well as the establishment of a new European Food Authority.
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Speech delivered March 28, 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland at: GM Food Safety: Facts, Uncertainties, And Assessment; The Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) Edinburgh Conference on the Scientific and Health Aspects of Genetically Modified Foods
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Gordon Conway's spoken remarks to the Monsanto board of directors are based on the statement below
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Monsanto announced a major scientific breakthrough in decoding the genetic make-up of rice, and that it will share its data with researchers around the world.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman charged biotechnology opponents are resorting to ``guerrilla tactics and outlandish rhetoric,'' and exploiting the public's limited knowledge about genetically modified organisms or GMOs.
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Link to the text of the TRIPS Agreement
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Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed today that the United Nations take the lead in bringing advanced information technologies to poor nations, which he said could enable them to leapfrog over traditional stages of development at a surprisingly low cost.
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Responding to a backlash against genetically engineered crops, some of the world's biggest biotechnology companies said today that they would spend up to $50 million over the next few years to convince consumers that the products are safe.
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Lord Melchett, the executive director of Greenpeace, led a dawn raid on a farm in Norfolk, causing £17,400 of damage to a genetically modified crop and disrupting a research programme, a court was told yesterday.
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The crop-biotechnology industry, wounded by a backlash in Europe, is launching an advertising campaign aimed at preventing the same thing from happening in the U.S.
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The U.S. farmer's retreat from genetically modified crops is gathering steam, signaling bigger troubles ahead for the battered biotechnology industry.
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Jump-starting scientific efforts to improve the world's most important crop, Monsanto Co. said yesterday that it had compiled a rough draft of the entire genetic map of the rice plant.
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The government should tighten its review and monitoring of genetically engineered crops to ensure that plants made toxic to pests won't prove harmful to human health or the environment, a panel of scientists said today.
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Genetically engineered crops appear to be safe but the government should better coordinate how it regulates them to make sure they don't pose a danger to the environment or human health, a National Academy of Sciences report concluded today.
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Monsanto, the US biotechnology company, yesterday said it had produced "a working draft" of rice's genetic makeup and would be making the ground-breaking data on one of the world's key food staples freely available to scientists around the globe.
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Monsanto Co., aiming to mollify farming activists in the developing world, said it will make available without charge its research about the genetic structure of rice.
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Saying that genetically engineered crops have the potential to pose food safety risks and harm the environment, the National Academy of Sciences yesterday cautiously endorsed the safety of biotech foods now on the market but called for stronger regulation of the novel plants.
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This article investigates the problem of malnutrition in context, and argues that as a solution to Vitamin A deficiency, genetic engineering is part of the problem, not the solution.
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RICE, which provides more than half the daily food for one third of people across the globe, is a key target for genetic engineers seeking to develop new crops to feed the world's burgeoning population.
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Even given the strengths of the U.S. system governing transgenic plants, regulatory agencies should do a better job of coordinating their work and expanding public access to the process as the volume and mix of these types of plants on the market increase, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council.
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Even given the strengths of the U.S. system governing transgenic plants, regulatory agencies should do a better job of coordinating their work and expanding public access to the process as the volume and mix of these types of plants on the market increase, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council.
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Farming is under pressure to produce more, but has less freedom than ever to do so. Shereen El Feki considers how it can rise to new expectations
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MONOCULTURES are much criticised by environmentalists for driving out biodiversity, replacing a rich mix of species with a single crop. Economists, and farmers, fear much the same is happening in American agribusiness, as consolidation and vertical integration sweep the industry.
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Contrary to their staid image, farmers can be quite nimble when it comes to adopting new technologies. The development of modern genetics owes much to breeders' match-making over the centuries. But now farming is being flooded with biological information and molecular tools, courtesy of modern medicine and its genomics revolution.
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Trade barriers of many kinds are making agriculture less efficient than it could be.
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Can agriculture be made friendlier to the environment?
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BELCHING tractors, farting cows, decaying rice paddies and burning fields make agriculture a culprit in greenhouse-gas production: according to the OECD, farming accounts for over 8% of all the methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide released. Although scientists dispute whether such gases contribute to global warming, many of the world's major polluters, such as America, Japan and the EU, have pledged to reduce their emissions.
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In farming, there is no single way to salvation.
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One of Britain's leading geneticists has attacked Lord Melchett, executive director of Greenpeace, for demanding absolute proof that genetically modified (GM) crops are safe.
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Claire Cockcroft foresees a high fibre diet for tomorrow's hungry industries.
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Leading Hong Kong biotechnologists have signed a global petition of more than 2,000 international scientists - including two Nobel prize winners - in support of genetically modified crops.
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Eden Bioscience introduces a completely new class of crop production and plant protection technology. This technology will be offered via Messenger(R) the first product that offers growers a novel, effective and environmentally sound tool for plant disease management; plant growth enhancement; and insect, mite and nematode suppression.
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UK participation in organic farming faces a number of constraints, and some farmers indicate they view the organic experience as a pit-stop on the road to other systems--possibly including growing genetically modified crops.
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The Brazilian Agricultural Research Institute (EMBRAPA) and the Parana State Cooperatives Association (OCEPAR) have signed a deal with Monsanto allowing them to research genes in some of the US company's genetically modified (GMO) soybeans.
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On the basis of the knowledge gained over the past three decades greater emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring that the productivity gains are not only economically viable but also ecologically sustainable. That strongly endorses the interdependence between the developed and developing worlds to foster mutually beneficial relationships.
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A company announced that it had come up with a "working draft" of the genetic structure of rice, the staple on which billions in the developing world depend, the first time a crop genome had been described in such detail. Instead of keeping this precious commercial asset to themselves, executives said they had decided to make the data, a key tool in the drive to develop high-yielding rice varieties, freely available.
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Opponents of biotechnology have raised some legitimate concerns. In doing so, however, they have often employed guerrilla tactics and outlandish rhetoric. Instead of educating people, they have merely exploited the public's limited knowledge about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
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After a year's deliberation, the National Academy of Sciences on Apr. 5 released the most authoritative report so far on one of the biggest controversies of the new century -- the safety of biotech foods. The academy's expert committee said it had found no evidence that gene-spliced crops are unsafe to eat. And it endorsed the central principle of the government's existing biotech regulations: that genetically engineered foods pose no special risk simply because they are produced by a new process.
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Despite years of effort by the United States to scuttle a global agreement establishing rules for international trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), one was agreed to by more than 130 countries in Montreal at the end of January.
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Europe's biotechnology industry was last night celebrating a rare policy victory after fending off attempts to toughen proposed laws on the licensing of genetically modified products.
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French consumer bodies said on Wednesday that EU legislation obliging labels to list any food or food additives with over one percent of genetically modified organisms (GMO) was a step forward, but not enough.
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SALMON genetically modified to grow four to six times faster than conventional farmed fish could be on American plates within a year, a research company said yesterday.
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Campaigners against genetically modified crops are planning to clog the government machinery for approving the new technology by taking advantage of rarely used official procedures.
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US - India citizens declaration for a new solidarity and a Citizens Vision Statement for a new Millennium to articulate the India US partnership at the people's level to reverse globalization. This statement has been prepared by a wide spectrum of Indian groups who are organising the Solidarity Convention on March 11, 2000 and by the International Forum on Globalization.
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RAFI s commentary on CIMMYT s new intellectual property (IP) policy
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Genetically altered soybeans produce about the same yield and require the same overall volume of chemicals to kill weeds as traditional varieties but save farmers about $220 million annually in cheaper chemical costs, according to a study released on Friday.
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Gordon Conway to speak at National Food Policy Conference April 17-18, along with Glickman and other 2 other key Clinton Administration figures on GE foods.
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The Chairman of the House Science Subcommittee on Basic Research, Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI), today released a comprehensive report on the benefits, safety and oversight of agricultural biotechnology.
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China has made a breakthrough in detecting transgenetic products. This success will accelerate China's efforts to inspect other transgenetic products. The achievement will also be conducive to the formulation of related laws and regulations in China.
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Government has reached voluntary agreement with biotechnology companies represented by SCIMAC on farm-scale evaluations which will continue until 2002. There is to be no unrestricted cultivation and no commercial benefits for consent-holders.
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The consumer benefits of a "second generation" of genetically modified foods have been overstated by a biotech industry keen to win over a sceptical public, a report claimed yesterday.
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Genetically-modified foods were given a vote of confidence yesterday by a science subcommittee of the US House of Representatives, a move that may hinder legislative initiatives to curb use of the technology.
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Thousands of demonstrators are converging on Washington this week to protest joint meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Among the demonstrators' specific complaints with the IMF and the World Bank are that these institutions' lending practices cause harm to the environment and hurt poor countries.
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Environmental groups have celebrated the approval of a legislative bill that imposes labelling requirements for genetically modified (GM) foods, which will let consumers know what they are eating and where it came from.
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The environmental movement has made some startling converts recently. Chief among these is Monsanto PLC, notorious for its production of noxious chemicals and unwanted genetically engineered soya.
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SOME 300 million people in India, approximately a third of the population, are malnourished. The successful impact of the Green Revolution, which helped the country put behind it famine and death, is beginning to fade with agricultural output plateauing. With the population expected to reach approximately 1.5 billion by 2050, farm production needs to increase 100 per cent with availability of arable land remaining the same. Shortage of irrigation water, increasing salinity levels, and water-logging of soil compound the problem of food security.
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The Church of England's Ethical Advisory Group was cited as saying in a statement Wednesday that the church should not allow new tenants to carry out genetically modified crop trials on its land, adding, "Until further research has been conducted into the ecological risks, new agricultural leases should contain a clause excluding the planting of GM crops on church land," and that an "ethical framework" for GM crop research should be developed before the church allows trials on its land.
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Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on genetically modified food pending more research on their effects on humans, a government official said Monday.
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Proponents of genetic modification have been on the attack today. The island state says it's so concerned about potential contamination it wants to be able to ban all GM crops if necessary.
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A network of 35 farmer groups and non-governmental organisations has threatened to stage a mass rally unless concerned agencies respond positively to their call for a halt to the testing of genetically modified plants.
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Paper written by Dr. Vandana Shiva who was asked to speak on "Women's Knowledge, Biotechnology and International Trade -- Fostering A New Dialogue into the Next Millennium" at the International Conference on Women and Agriculture.
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A new congressional study that supports science-based regulatory and labeling policies on food biotechnology "will be useful in dispelling unscientific and unsubstantiated attacks on a safe technology," according to the Grocery Manufacturers of America.
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A MAJOR OBJECTION to genetically modified crops has been answered. A new technique allows plants to be modified without adding a "marker gene" for antibiotic resistance. Fears that these genes could spread to dangerous bacteria, making them resistant to antibiotics, have made marker genes a target for critics.
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Most Chinese are bemused by the term "genetically modified" even as their nation faces a choice to treat the spread of the controversial "super crops" with relish or reserve. But it is an issue likely to affect growing numbers, whether they know it or not, as consumption of genetically modified (GM) food is expected to rise dramatically with China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Plants and animals are not eligible for patenting, except in the following cases: Inventions of micro-organisms, Inventions of non-biological and microbiological processes for the production of plants or animals, plant varieties have to be eligible for protection either by patents, or by an effective system specially created for the purpose (?sui generis?), or a combination of the two.
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In noting that no health hazard has ever been found in biotech food products intended for human consumption, the council has hardly given companies the blanket approvals they might have hoped for.
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"In her letter to the editor, Ms. Gamboa seems opposed to just about everything advanced -biotechnology, globalization, profit, etc. Just because something is "natural" doesn't mean it is safe. "
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Under new environmental regulations imposed this spring, farmers can only plant 80 percent of their corn acreage into a variety of biotech corn, known as Bt corn for a bacteria gene that makes it toxic to pests. The other 20 percent must be planted to a non-Bt variety - so that enough of the corn borers which are not resistant can survive and reproduce.
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The country will not be able to ignore the developments in crop biotechnology and block the introduction of genetically improved crops in India.
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The European tail of neurotic concern - based on unfounded fears whipped up by a compliant press - cannot be permitted to prevent this adaptive dog from barking.
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As biotechnology issues erupt inside the Beltway and beyond, the trade association known as BIO is increasingly under the microscope.
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The process by which new biotech food products are reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "should be made more formal," according to John Cady President and CEO of the National Food Processors Association (NFPA).
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Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education-disinterested inquiry. Even more alarming, the authors argue, universities themselves are behaving more and more like for-profit companies.
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As a microbiologist who has testified in a number of venues on the marker gene issue, I would like to make the following important point. If the marker genes found in genetically modified crops were to "escape" into human intestinal bacteria, such an event have no clinical relevance.
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Statement of the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Corn Growers Association Regarding Funding for the US Agency for International Development Submitted to the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Committee on Appropriations United States Senate
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This report was issued April 13, 2000 and was the outcome from a series of three hearing which the Congressional Biotechnology Committee held on the Benefits and Risks of Plant Biotechnology held in Washington DC.
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Comments on Bt gene escape
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Biosafety issues related to biotechnologies for sustainable agriculture and food security.
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Biotechnology provides powerful tools for the sustainable development of agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as the food industry. When appropriately integrated with other technologies for the production of food, agricultural products and services, biotechnology can be of significant assistance in meeting the needs of an expanding and increasingly urbanized population in the next millennium.
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This database includes records of field trials of genetically modified organisms which have taken place in OECD Member countries. It also includes data from other countries which has been provided through UNIDO's BINAS
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A NORTH-EAST MSP called for a halt to an Aberdeenshire GM crop trial yesterday, warning that it could damage the region's agricultural reputation.
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The main group campaigning against GM foods in the Republic, Genetic Concern, is to dis-band. The organisation says it has fulfilled its aim of alerting consumers to the wide-scale in-troduction of GM foods and what it considered to be unacceptable risks to humans and the environment from such produce.
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Researchers fear hysteria may impede genetic breakthroughs that could save lives.
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Book Review: Carlos M. Correa, "Intellectual Property Rights, the WTO and Developing Countries: The TRIPS Agreement and Policy Options"
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Moves towards clearly identifying genetically modified food have raised more questions than answers.
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Scientific review finds EPA accepted biotech companies' questionable studies as sound science.
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This is a letter written by World Trade Organisation's Secretary-General Mike Moore to Indian citizens
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The very thought of monopolizing an agricultural resource so vital to life was unthinkable a few years ago. Today, it is becoming a palpable reality. The geographical concentration of wealth is accelerating, along with control over technological knowledge. This is fueling further advances in biotechnology. Agrochemical, pharmaceutical and seed industries pursue interlocking activities and aims. It is ever more difficult to associate these transnationals with a single industry. As their interests broaden and mesh, so does the incentive to pursue research in many different areas, to develop new products, and to put their brand on them.
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John Wafula's letter to the organizers of the Friends of the Earth biotechnology conference regarding the lack of representation from African countries particularly public and private sectors institutions/organizations.
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Peggy Lemaux vividly remembers the scene that, in her mind, justified the effort her department at the University of California-Berkeley was putting into courting a corporate research sponsor. It became clear to Lemaux, a cooperative-extension specialist with Berkeley's Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, that in the field of agricultural biotechnology, corporate sponsorship could involve more than funding. Watching a postdoc student receive in ten seconds what might have taken five years to put together in a university laboratory, Lemaux knew that any research agreement her department put together would have to include a more valuable asset--access to genetic maps, information about genes and gene sequences, and various genetic tissues used to analyze genes and generate new traits.
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Hundreds of Filipino rice farmers protested against the Philippine-based International Rice Reseach Institute (IRRI), home of the 'Green Revolution', which is celebrating its 40th anniversary today.
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This statement was ratified by broup members in November 1999 and published in January 2000.
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The environmentalist campaign against genetically modified crops scored a victory yesterday when a jury cleared of stealing Greenpeace activists who raided a maize field. But jurors failed to agree whether they had committed criminal damage.
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This paper is divided in two sections. The first section offers an overview of the TRIPs agreement and discusses its implications for IPRs in the South Pacific. The second part focuses on IPRs issues surrounding Kava, a plant widely used in the South Pacific by local communities, but increasingly used in a number of drugs made in the US and Europe. Following is the Report Introduction. Links to the full report may be found at web site http://panda.org/resources/publications/sustainability/bi_main.html.
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The topic of IPRs has attracted much attention in India following ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1994 and the joining of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995. India played a key role in the negotiations leading to the signing of the CBD and its provisions have been welcomed by all concerned even though many of them lack the desired clarity and specificity. Following is the Report Introduction. Links to the full report may be found at web site http://panda.org/resources/publications/sustainability/ind_main.html.
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There is irony in canola's success because there is a glut of seed on the world market today. Low prices are forcing farmers to once again look towards biotechnology to provide diverse options for crop production and marketing.
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In the UK, the Patent Office issued a consultative draft for brining United Kingdon law on patents and biotechnology into line with common rules set out in a European Directive agreedin 1998. This does not fundamentally change UK patent law. The consultation paper is attached.
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Genuardi's Family Markets broke ranks with the supermarket industry in announcing that it supports mandatory labeling of foods with genetically modified ingredients.
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The world's leading maize and wheat research organiazation (CIMMYT) adopted an intellectual-property policy intended to ensure that its resources will remain available to scientists working for sustainable agriculture in developing nations.
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The multinational life science company Monsanto announced the first coplete sequencing of a crop plant genome -- all 12 chromosomes of rice.
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This is a draft Background and Answers Paper and Fact Sheet on the Monsanto Rice Genome Sequencing Program.
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For over two decades, biotechnology has been an effective means of creating new pharmaceuticals or mass producing known drugs that were previously difficult and expensive to produce and limited in availability. As such, it was a proven method for bettering the human condition. During this time, biotechnologies for accelerating plant breeding and developing using various techniques of tissue culture were successfully applied to agricultural needs.
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A comprehensive article about the safety of GT feed.
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This report was prepared for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
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This is the report put out by the Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants, National Research Council.
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A draft PBRs Bill has been submitteed to Parliament with the objectives of protecting the rights of breeders and farmers while also fulfilling the country's obligations to the TRIPs Agreement. This Comment was submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, India
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This article is baed on remarks made in February 1998 at the annual meeting of the Weed Science Society of America in Chicago.
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1999 Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture; CGIAR International Centers Week
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Advocates of biotechnology affirm that the application of genetic engineering to develop transgenic crops will increase world agricultural productivity, enhance food security, and move agriculture away from a dependence on chemical inputs helping to reduce environmental problems. This paper challenges such assertions by first demystifying the Malthusian view that hunger is due to a gap between food production and human population growth. Second, we expose the fact that current bio-engineered crops are not designed to increase yields or for poor small farmers, so that they may not benefit from them. In addition, transgenic crops pose serious environmental risks, continuously underplayed by the biotechnology industry. Finally, it is concluded that there are many other agro-ecological alternatives that can solve the agricultural problems that biotechnology aims at solving, but in a much more socially equitable manner and in a more environmentally harmonious way.
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The International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, from 2-3 September 1999. It was sponsored by the Harvard University Center for International Development and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The conference examined a number of issues related to biotechnology in the context of globalization based on 16 background papers and 46 viewpoints and abstracts. Specific topics were addressed in nine sessions on: the evolution of the biotechnology industry; biotechnology in international trade; intellectual property rights; biotechnology and international relations; bioprospecting; biotechnology in developing countries; environmental aspects of biotechnology; biotechnology and human health; and ethics, social values and biotechnology. The Conference web site features written summaries as well as audio files of presentations.
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The objective in this article is to challenge misconceptions often put forward about the technologies of biotechnology. In particular, I challenge many of the arguments put forward by Altieri and Rosset in their paper published in this issue of AgBioForum. My main conclusion is that biotechnology will be very important to the developing world in the next 50 years.
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Upon reflecting on McGloughlin's response to our original essay it becomes quite clear that we and she speak from different world views. Where she sees simple problems that can be solved with quick technological fixes provided by private industry, we see an unequal world where problems like hunger are the product of inequality, and can only be solved by striking at that inequality head on. In what follows we briefly respond to a number of her points.
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Earth Day provides a reminder for everyone to think about their impact on the environment, and to consider how small changes can lead to a big payoff. According to the Council for Biotechnology Information, many people are surprised to learn that farming methods employed by agricultural biotechnology help protect the environment while improving our quality of life.
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AS THE DEBATE surrounding genetically engineered foods matures, some of the most ardent critics have refined their bottom line: They want consumers to have the right to know what they are eating and are pushing for a labeling law.
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RESEARCHERS WORKING in obscurity on a little-known project to map the genetic code of rice have been thrust into the academic limelight with a project that proponents say could bring crops to Africa's parched lands.
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Writer JEFF OTIENO spoke to scientists who support the new technology for producing genetically engineered crops as well as those who see risks in biotechnology.
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This morning on TODAY'S KITCHEN, genetically modified foods. Prince Charles has referred to them as Frankenstein foods, and most people across the US and Europe are upset over the lack of information the public has about the process. But despite these concerns, we may not see stricter labeling laws for at least two more years. Syndicated columnist and TODAY show contributor Phil Lempert explains.
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MALAYSIA'S rich biodiversity, and the traditional use of plants and herbs as medicines by different cultures, provide opportunities for identifying useful compounds in plant and animal species that can tap the estimated US$100 billion (US$1 = RM3.80) global pharmaceutical market.
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r. Wayne W. Hanna has been searching for it for nearly 20 years. The goal is a plant that will reproduce asexually, so that its seeds will grow into exact genetic copies, or clones, of the parent.
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Malaysia is expected to sign a global agreement regulating certain aspects of trade of Genetically Modified Organisms. This will follow the submission of a paper by the Science, Technology and Environment Ministry to the Cabinet.
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The draft of the Biosafety Bill has been finalised and will go through national consultation soon, Science, Technology and Environment Minister Datuk aw Hieng Ding said today.
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DuPont Qualicon, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont (NYSE: DD), announced the opening of a laboratory to provide testing services to determine if specific genetic modifications are present in food products. The laboratory, located at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, will provide a precise determination of the percentage of genetically enhanced materials contained in soy- and corn-based products.
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Cargill Dow begins construction on the first world-scale manufacturing facility to make plastics out of corn.
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Sri Lanka's Food Advisory Committee has issued instructions to all relevant authorities including the Sri Lanka Customs to prevent the imports of GMOs
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Commission on Sustainable Development meets in NYC. First of its high-level segments focuses on land and agriculture.
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FAO and WHO are organizing a Joint Expert Consultation on Foods Derived from Biotechnology . This announcement was made during the first session of the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology which took place in Chiba Japan from 14 to 17 March 2000.
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