Report warns investors of risks faced by Monsanto

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Innovest Strategic Value Advisors & This Report Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, a financial services firm based in New York, London, Paris and Toronto, analyzed investor risks related to Monsanto’s genetic enginee […]

FDA’s New Proposal Will Increase GM Contamination

REF: Doc.TWN/Biosafety/2004/F MEDIA ADVISORY Friends of the Earth International November 23, 2004 US TO LEGALIZE BIOTECH CONTAMINATION US sets out plan to allow contamination of the world’s food supply with experimental […]

Bayer Withdraws GM Application in the UK

GM firms finally give up on planting in Britain By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Independent on Sunday, 21 November 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=585086 Industry has dropped its last attempts t […]

Bayer Stops GE Research in India

Item 1 (Letter by Greenpeace to Bayer-India) Greenpeace 3360, 13th ‘B’ Mair, HAL-2 Stage […]

Corn Segregation Required by Grain Elevators

For Immediate Release New National Survey of Over One Thousand Grain Elevators Shows Twenty-Four Percent Require GMO Corn Variety Segregation. Twelve Percent Report Offering Premiums for Non-GMO Corn. WASHINGTON — Oct. […]

Privatisation of Seeds?

Canada: Monsanto victory plants seed of privatisation Brooklin, Canada, 5 Oct (IPS/Stephen Leahy) — Canadian farmers’ traditional right to save seeds is being threatened by proposals to collect royalties on virtually all such seeds fo […]

Biotechnology: Continuing Hype?

Biotechnology: Continuing hype? By Chee Yoke Heong Source: Third World Resurgence, No. 167-168 July/August 2004) PUBLICLY traded biotechnology companies in the US have been estimated to have suffered cumulative losses of over USD40 b […]

Biotech’s Dismal Performance

Biotech’s Dismal Bottom Line: More Than $40 Billion in Losses As Scientists Search for Cures, They Gobble Investor Cash; A Handful Hit the Jackpot ‘The Ultimate Roulette Game’ DAVID P. HAMILTON / Wall Street Journal 20 may 04 Sin […]

Monsanto Eyes Royalties from Latin American Soya Imports

Monsanto Eyes Royalties on Latam Soy Imports to US Story by Richard Cowan REUTERS NEWS SERVICE, USA, March 25, 2004 WASHINGTON – Biotech crop leader Monsanto Co. (MON.N: Quote, Profile, Research), hoping to capitalize on an expected […]

Trilateral Agreement Undermines Biosafety Protocol