Research found that peas modified to resist insects had caused inflammation in the lung tissues of mice which led the CSIRO to abandon a decade-long GM crop project. […]
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Submission from Third World Network to the Open-Ended Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety […] Greenpeace believes that there is no basis upon which it can be claimed that the GE foods are safe to eat. […] Thousands of people who have taken GE L-tryptophan have developed the highly unusual illness, eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. This reminds us of the need for extreme caution with GE foods. […] Thousands of people had fallen seriously ill due to taking GE food supplement L-tryptophan. The author draws the conclusion that there is a link between genetic engineering and the effects on human health eventhough the US regulators tried hard to deny it […] A new study shows that 20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities. […] 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 impacts of agricultural biotechnology are here evaluated in the context of agroecological goals aimed at making agriculture more socially just, economically viable, and ecologically sound. […] The author contends that the key problem facing agroecologists, is that modern industrial agriculture, today epitomized by biotechnology, is founded on philosophical premises that are fundamentally flawed. […] |
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