r FTA MEANS DEEPER POVERTY IN PERU
Inti Montenegro de Wit
During his final month in office, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo introduced a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States to Peru’s nationa […]
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Gene-Altered Profit-Killer By Rick Weiss The disclosure last month t […] The US is the world leader in nanotechnology but it is not paying enough attention to the environmental, health and safety risks posed by nanoscale products. […] The Ecological Society of America in this report listed its concern about the environmental impact of GMOs and suggested recommendations in addressing them. […] Item 1 Court: withhold approval for genetically modified products But it will not stop field trials wit […] New GM crops are being promoted for nutritional or health benefits. However, overdose of many single nutritional factors can be toxic, and hence food crops genetically modified to overproduce single nutrients could be public health hazards. […] Foods derived from GM animals are far from safe. They are likely to be contaminated by a host of agents as well as nucleic acids, viruses, and bacteria that have the potential to create pathogens and to trigger cancer. […] GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES – Sign-on letter to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) urging a ban on genetically modified trees At its last Conference of the Parties (COP8), the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a very imp […] The disclosure last month that American long-grain rice has become widely contaminated with traces of an experimental, gene-altered rice has provoked an economic crisis for farmers and reignited a long-smoldering debate over the adequacy of U.S. oversight […] r Item 1 Brussel, September 5 2006 – Greenpeace International released findings today that show illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice from China has contaminated food products in France, Germany and the UK. Greenpeace Internatio […] |
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