Study on Economic, Environment Impacts of GMOs

Executive Summary (for the complete summary including tables, please see http://www.biotech-info.net/first_generation_GMC.pdf) 1. Introduction This paper brings together a wide reading of the current agricultural research on g […]

Ex-Minister: Benefits of GM a Mirage

Michael Meacher: To know the truth about GM, ask the Canadians The lesson of their experience is that co-existence between conventional and GM farming is a mirage The Independent, 06 August 2003 http://argument.independent.co.uk […]

Spain’s GM Corn Contaminates, Proves Disappointing

PRESS RELEASE Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace Immediate release – Tuesday 26 August ******************************************************** FAILING IN THE FIELD GM crops in Spain don’t deliver promises, bu […]

UK Study Says Little Economic Benefit from GM Crops

GM foods: unloved, unwanted and a rush to grow crops could cause civil unrest Ministers try to put gloss on bleak view from strategy unit Paul Brown, environment correspondent Saturday July 12, 2003 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmde […]

Scientist Quits Over GM Review

Naive, narrow and biased… Carlo Leifert explains why he resigned from the government’s GM science review panel Thursday July 24, 2003 The Guardian (Interview by Ian Sample) http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,1004400, […]

Update on Italy’s Contamination

Italian court rejects company bid to save GM maize TURIN, July 17 (Reuters) – A court on Thursday rejected an attempt by the Italian unit of Pioneer Hi-Bred, a subsidiary of Dupont Co (nyse: DD – news – people), to halt an order to dest […]

GM Contamination Discovered in Italian Region

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14506370.htm Italy: Farmers resist order to wreck gene crop Reuters, July 14, 2003 ROME – Farmers are resisting an order by Piedmont region in north Italy to destroy almost 400 hectares […]

New Book on GM Food, BSE, Foot & Mouth

BOOK REVIEW: Don’t Worry, It’s Safe to Eat: The True Story of GM Food, BSE and Foot and Mouth by Andrew Rowell Earthscan, 2003 Reviewed for GM Watch by Claire Robinson In his groundbreaking new book, Don’t Worry, It’s Sa […]

GM – A False Hope

Poison Control: Blairspeak to the fore again over GM foods By Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, New Straits Times, Malaysia, 6 July 2003 (http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Features/20030706095522/Article/pp_index_html) IT looks like Bri […]

Former UK Minister Warns Against GM

Item 1 Michael Meacher: Are GM crops safe? Who can say? Not Blair Independent on Sunday, 22 June 2003 (http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=417687) At Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons last Wedne […]