The maize trials in the UK’s farm scale evaluations (FSEs) have come under fire for being “misleading”, “worthless” and “a complete waste of time”. Robert Vint and Lim Li Ching investigate. […]
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While recognizing that genetic engineering has its risks and potential benefits, the British Medical Association in its second and updated statement on GM foods and health in March 2004 called for caution in approaching the issue. […] This is an assessment by Masaharu Kawata of Nagoya University, Japan which found that the safety assessment application made by Monsanto to the Japanese Health Ministry for approval of Roundup Ready soybeans were “inadequate and incomplete”. […] TWN assesses The Codex Alimentarius Commission’s Guidelines for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Plants and Foods Produced Using Recombinant-DNA Microorganisms […] Canada’s Supreme Court rules out patents on higher life forms. Lim Li Ching reports on this landmark decision and its wider implications. […] This is an assessment by Masaharu Kawata of Nagoya University, Japan which found that the safety assessment application made by Monsanto to the Japanese Health Ministry for approval of Roundup Ready soybeans were “inadequate and incomplete”. […] This article documents studies which show the advantages of organic agriculture over conventional agriculture. […] The most damning criticism of gene therapy, is that it is a simplistic, reductionist solution to complex diseases that must be understood in terms of the human being as a whole in his or her social, ecological environment. […] A group of farmers and activists from South Asia and Canada met to discuss issues affecting farming communities worldwide. […] At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, the most contentious issue that was not on the official agenda, but which reverberated through the corridors, was on GM food aid. […] |
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