Conflict of Interest — Alive and Well

Eric Schlosser: USDA is too dominated by cattle industry Alisa Harrison has worked tirelessly the last couple of weeks to spread the message that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, is not a risk to American consume […]

Tomato Seeds from Seedbank Found Contaminated

Item 1 University of California, Davis December 18, 2003 TOMATO SEED FROM SEED BANK FOUND TO BE GENETICALLY MODIFIED The University of California, Davis, is recalling about 30 tomato seed samples, distributed durin […]

Regulatory Sham in GM crops

Greater Pesticides Use in GM Crops

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 25, 2003 For More Information: Contact Dr. Benbrook at 208-263-5236 or via e-mail: benbrook@hillnet.com Genetically Engineered Crops Now Increasing Pesticide Use in the Unit […]

UK GM Maize Trials Come Under Fire

GM Crops Harm Wildlife

The UK’s farm scale evaluations have shown conclusively that the herbicide regime linked with GM spring oilseed rape and beet is damaging to biodiversity. Lim Li Ching reports. […]

GM Oilseed and Beet Damaging to Biodiversity

Biotech IPOs See Boom but Performance Disappointing

October sees a frenzy of biotech IPOs By Elizabeth Wine in New York Financial Times; Nov 10, 2003 October was the busiest month in three years for initial public offerings in the biotechnology sector. But the performance of the newly li […]

US Genetically Engineer Lethal Poxvirus

US develops lethal new viruses A SCIENTIST funded by the US government has deliberately created an extremely deadly form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus, through genetic engineering. The new virus kills all mice even if th […]

GM DNA and Protein Detected in Gut

Detection of corn intrinsic and recombinant DNA fragments and Cry1Ab protein in the gastrointestinal contents of pigs fed genetically modified corn 2003 J. Anim. Sci. 2003. 81bioarticle_133546-2551 Bt11 1 E. H. Chowdhury*, H. Kuribara, A. Hino, P. Sultana* […]