After a run of low quality GM cotton crops with unusually short fibres, Burkina Faso has ended its love affair with Monsanto's Bt cotton, writes Claire Robinson. In a further blow to the company, growers are demanding $280 million compensation for their losses.
Burkina Faso calls time on Monsanto's GM cotton, demands $280m damages Claire Robinson GMWatch | 1st February 2016 News Burkina Faso Gm Cotton Africa Burkinabè Monsanto dadjan wassinatou, 34, holds a …
Campaigners say approval for the genetically modified salmon would carry 'great risk' and pave the way for more GM animals to enter the market
US delays approval for fast-growing GM salmon The Ecologist | 22nd September 2010 News Food And Farming Gm Fish Salmon Health salmon.jpg Campaigners say approval for the genetically modified salmon …
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?
Break Free Clare Oxborrow Becky Price Peter Riley | 1st November 2008 News Gm Focus Gm Monsanto Debates Government Gm Products Allotments Campaigns Biodynamics Biotechnology Campaigns Gm Products …