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SciDev Net – Zoraida Portillo, August 25, 2010 http://www.scidev.net/ ‘New report failed to find GM crops whose existence Bustamante challenged before being convicted of defamation’ An official study in Peru has found no evidence of transgenic maize crops in the valley of Barranca, casting doubt on earlier claims by a researcher of their illegal existence….
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Finally, I Have Worked Out What The Story of Cosmetics is Really About | Personal Care Finally, I Have Worked Out What The Story of Cosmetics is Really About August 24th, 2010 . 1 Comment » Since I was a teenager in the Seventies, I’ve always regarded myself as a pretty green. Green in the…
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Earth needs more from less | News | Feedstuffs FoodLink The world’s growing population will need increasingly more food, including meat, but it must be produced from fewer resources using intensification and technology. (8/13/2010) Rod Smith MULTIPLYING the world’s population by its consumption of food does not equal a healthy planet — the multiplication result…
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We’ve discussed labeling many times at Biofortified, usually looking at things from a practical perspective, such as in the posts What’s in a label? and Labeling GMOs. I argue that anything that is scientifically proven to be a hazard should be a mandatory label. For example, a label that a product contains nuts is justified by severe allergic…
French protesters destroy biotech grapevines – Taiwan News Online Item via Associated Press 2010-08-15 11:48 PM Associated Press are reporting that Protesters have destroyed vines of genetically modified grapes at a government research site in eastern France. The item says that the security chief for the Haut-Rhin region, Jean-Christophe Bertrand said that 50 people were…
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Regulation must be revolutionizedUnjustified and impractical legal requirements are stopping genetically engineeredcrops from saving millions from starvation and malnutrition, says Ingo Potrykus. Nature Volume 466 , July 29th 2010, page 561 The crop [Golden Rice] was stalled for more than ten years by the working conditions and requirements demanded by regulations (see ‘From bench to…
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“Hidden GMOs” : anti-GMO campaigners change target but not strategy – OGM : environnement, sante’ et politique: “‘Hidden GMOs’ : anti-GMO campaigners change target but not strategy” “Hidden GMOs” : anti-GMO campaigners change target but not strategy par Marcel Kuntz Having no GM crops or trials to destroy in France (since there are almost no…
ACT FOR FREEDOM NOW!: 2 GM Maize trials trashed in Catalonia, Spain Today, 12th July 2010, dozens of people came together to sabotage two experimental GM Maize trials belonging to Syngenta, located in the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí (Baix Empordà, Girona, Catalunya). They explain why: … GM agriculture makes it impossible to develop and…
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Tasmania fumes over media misconduct – On Line Opinion – 7/7/2010 Scaremongering on shoddy ABC TV program Australian Story about supposedly “GM trees” has been dissected at On-line opinion. A few snippets from Online Opinion are given below Tasmania fumes over media misconduct Mark Pointer