An analysis which debunks the benefits of Bt corn and concludes that there are more safer and viable alternatives for poor farmers in the Philippines. […]
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Organic agriculture largely excludes synthetic inputs and focuses instead on long-term ecological health. The health benefits of organic foods are now clear: they are richer in anti-cancer chemicals. […] A genetically modified (GMO) corn banned in Japan, known as StarLink, accounted for an average 0.5 percent in weight terms of 10 samples of imported U.S. corn for animal feed in which its presence was detected recently. […] Item 1 Reuters, 13 Jun 2005 Japan asks importers to get Bt10-free certificate TOKYO – Japan’s Agriculture Ministry has asked importers of U.S. corn to obtain certificates stating cargoes do not contain Bt-10 biotech corn […] GRAIN NEWS RELEASE South Africa: 26 May 2005 BT COTTON IN MAKHATHINI, SOUTH AFRICA: THE SUCCESS STORY THAT NEVER WAS Despite claims that Bt cotton will catapult African farmers out of poverty, recent reports revealed th […] At least a thousand farmers in Punjab and Gujarat in India have opted to grow only organic cotton, giving pesticides, fertilisers and GM seeds the big heave-ho from their lands. […]
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Genetically Modified Organisms-Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (31 May 2005) 2. JEANETTE FITZSIMONS (Co-Leade […]
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Media release from Greenpeace
********************** First on-line worldwide register of GM contamin […] A report on the outcome of the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Montreal, 30 May – 3 June, 2005. […] Biotechnology Loses Billions A Year By PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press |
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