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
… Soya Republic Ben Backwell | 1st February 2003 News Gm Soya Argentina Genetically Modified Biotech … Agribusiness Biotechnology Agribusiness Soya Biotechnology Gm Products Soya Farming …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
… any human has ever eaten them. Soon after GM soya was introduced into the UK, researchers … Yorkshire, reported that allergies to soya had skyrocketed by 50 per cent in a … new one. Both appear to have happened in GM soya. Levels of one soya allergen, trypsin …
Why are GM crops being grown, how are plants genetically modified, where is it being cultivated, who’s in control and what is being researched and developed?
… Genetically Modified Research And Development Soya Biotechnology Gm Products Natural World … hectares % crop worldwide of total HT soya bean 36.5 62 Bt maize 7.7 … to assess the safety of herbicide-resistant soya beans made by Monsanto, 36 cows were …
A simple experiment by a Russian scientist to see if eating GM soya influenced the offspring of mice, could threaten the multi-billion dollar GM industry.
… Jeffrey Smith | 1st December 2005 News GM Soy Soya Mice Gm Products Soya Food And Farming Health Science And … by a Russian scientist to see if eating GM soya influenced the offspring of mice, could …
Whether we like it or not, the Government says that we must accept the necessity of genetically modified crops to fuel, feed and heal the world. Leading academics, researchers and campaigners in the GM arena address the science and the spin of the GM 'solution', as well as looking at alternatives that are already contributing to a sustainable farming future.
… of those years. Back in 1996, the first GM soya shipments arrived from the US. Within … sale in the UK was thought to contain some GM soya. There was little publicity and no … crops is nothing new. Since the first GM soya of 1996, only two GM traits have been …
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.
… if their neighbours are growing its canola or soya… They are told to inform on their …
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?
… other crops: the annual inflation rate for GM soya meal from Argentina to May 2008 was a …
The days of Apartheid are over, but once again South Africa is the victim of a dangerous experiment. Jeffery Smith raises the alarm over the government's legislation of genetically modified maize
… only a partial list of what may go wrong with soya, a single GM food crop. The list for …