The disclosure last month that American long-grain rice has become widely contaminated with traces of an experimental, gene-altered rice has provoked an economic crisis for farmers and reignited a long-smoldering debate over the adequacy of U.S. oversight […]
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The Centre for Research in Biosafety (INBI) in New Zealand is urging the food standards agency not to approve Monsanto’s GE high-lysine LY038 corn until further safety studies have been conducted. […] This submission from the New Zealand Institute of Gene Ecology is to support Food Standards Australia/New Zealand’s preparation of an application to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code to allow foods derived from corn line LY038. […] There are many unanswered questions with regards to the safety of GE rice and its potentially serious negative environmental, health and socio-economic impacts. Given this situation, GE rice should not be commercialised. […] Greepeace report on why Bt11 should not be approved for cultivation in Europe. […] The growing of GM soybean in Latin America has caused hunger, deforestation and disuption to the socio-ecological balance in the continent. […] The International Year of Rice ended last December, but the debate over GM rice looks set to escalate, especially with the latest discovery of unauthorised GM rice in China. […] After the 2000 media blitz on the miracle of ‘Golden Rice’ engineered to produce pro-Vitamin A, the promise turned cold. Seed giant Syngenta has now entered the stage with an ‘improved’ version, but the biosafety and social concerns remain. […] Arpad Pustzai’s presentation at a press conference organised by Greenpeace on MON863. […] GE crops cannot be contained once they are released into the environment. Growing GE rice will very likely contaminate conventional and organic rice and threaten the livelihoods of millions of farmers. […] |
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