After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
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A charity has given millions to a biotechnology organisation in an aim to advance the use of biotechnology on crops in developing countries.
… Africa The Ecologist | 1st March 2009 News Biotechnology Monsanto Africa Gm Science And … A charity has given millions to a biotechnology organisation in an aim to advance the use of biotechnology on crops in developing …
Companies should counter organic groups' criticisms of food technologies to convince consumers to accept biotechnology and irradiation, says US study
… The Ecologist | 23rd September 2009 News Gm Biotechnology Food And Farming Irradiation … technologies to convince consumers to accept biotechnology and irradiation, says US study … most people are prejudiced by learning about biotechnology and irradiation through organic …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
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The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
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The former chair of the European Food Safety Authority calls for more publicly-funded research into GM crops to avoid biotechnology firm bias.
… research into GM crops to avoid biotechnology firm bias. The former chair of … issues of bias with studies submitted by biotechnology firms. In an interview with … [we could change].’ Wall also called for biotechnology companies to disclose the …
We didn’t want GM on your table, but the crucial question now is, will we allow it in our tanks? Robin Maynard and Pat Thomas report
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The Big Gene Gathering took place Herefordshire during 1997 and the following December the UK's anti-GMO movement was born. DR DAVID KING has been an activist in the movement since the beginning. Here, he explores the reasons for the campaign's success - and assesses the threats ahead
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Is Monsanto the “clean and green” company its advertisements promote, or is the new image merely a product of clever public relations?
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BASF are to halve their GM research and development and reduce the time spent on developing these technologies, writes Peter Melchett. Given the many problems that GM agriculture is facing, and that new non-GE technologies offer such valuable benefits as increased crop yields, does BASF's announcement spell the beginning of the end of GM crops?
… delicately puts it, 'refocusing its plant biotechnology research portfolio and will … will adjust the site footprint of its plant biotechnology research and development network … approximately 700 employees work in plant biotechnology R&D. What this means is that …
When a group calling itself Sense About Science launched its 'Science for celebrities' pamphlet in the national media last month, it was supposed to look like the long-overdue backlash of a normally passive science community to years of misinformation from ill-informed celebrities.
The great GM debate is a complex one. Professor Guy Cook examines the ways in which the issue is often tackled - verbally that is.
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As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattle
BBSRC-funded website backlash against sustainable watchdog’s call to reduce meat consumption
… 2009 News Food And Farming Biotech Gm Biotechnology Diet Health Consumption meat.jpg … debate on 'food security' , and funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research …
As biotech companies hoover up patents, Geoff Tansey considers what we could end up paying for our future food supply
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In the past decade, the sales pitch of the biotech companies has shifted with the climate of public opinion. Public scepticism has remained high, but politicians seem to have bought enthusiastically into the GM ‘solution’. In many ways this encapsulates where science has gone wrong – by inventing technologies without first deciding what problems need addressing. If GM crops are the answer, what exactly is the problem?
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Greenpeace's chief scientist Dr Paul Johnston on why recent proposals to expand GM technology support a flawed agricultural system and serve the biotech companies with the greatest vested interests
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For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
… Cases Action Agribusiness Companies Monsanto Biotechnology Food Chain Agribusiness … private property law, the interests of the biotechnology companies have precedence over … times in North America and other places. [For biotechnology] it is a good way of getting a …
Four years since the death of Dolly the cloned sheep, her legacy very much lives on...
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Member of steering group resigns claiming the Food Standard Agency's (FSA) £500,000 public dialogue on genetically modified (GM) food is ignoring key issues about GM feed and labelling
… had met with pro-GM group the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) and accepted many … the public dialogue. The Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) also responded to …