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    Highlights

• How Do We Live With the Use of Chemicals to Feed the World?-- Slideshow presented at the Annual Meeting of the AAAS, Symposium "Can We Feed the World Without Poisoning the Earth?" February 19, 2005 -- Presented by Charles M. Benbrook

• Technical Paper #7 -- "Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Nine Years", October 2004

• A Bill of Goods: Agricultural Policy, Trade, and Technology Innovation Since the Mid-1990's, Presented by Charles Benbrook at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, February 26-28

• Technical Paper #6 -- "Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Eight Years", November 2003
  • Press Release from the Northwest Science and Environmental Policy Center

• Chubby Blonde? Slim and Dark? Lab Mice Take After Mom's Diet, by Sharon Begley, Science Journal, Wall Street Journal

• Economic and Environmental Impacts of First Generation Genetically Modified Crops: Lessons from the United States, by Dr. Charles M. Benbrook, for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), November 2002

• New York Times Op-Ed Focus on Biotechnology and Africa, July 11, 2003
  Sowing Seeds of Destruction, by Charles M. Benbrook
  The Next Green Revolution, by Norman E. Borlaug
  Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us, by Amadou Toumani Touré and Blaise Compaoré

• "GMOs, Pesticide Use, and Alternatives Lessons from the U.S. Experience", Presented at the Conference on GMOs and Agriculture. by Dr. Charles M. Benbrook, Paris France, June 20, 2003

• U.S. Challenges Europe on Genetically Modified Food, New York Times, May 13, 2003

• What Will It Take to Change the American Food System? Dr. Charles Benbrook, Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Networking Conference, The Woodlands Center, April 24, 2003
       Slideshow

• Principles Governing the Long-Run Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Agricultural Biotechnology, Dr. Charles Benbrook, Biodiversity and Biotechnology Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, April 6-10, 2003
       Slideshow

• Crop Improvement: A Dying Breed, OPINION by Jonathan Knight, Nature 421, 568 - 570 (2003) -- Posted on AgBioWorld.org

• Why Food Safety Will Continue Driving Growth in Demand for Organic Food by Charles M. Benbrook, EcoFarm 2003, January 22 - 25, 2003

• Argentina Trip Report, prepared by Charles Benbrook and Heike Baumüller, from a workshop held December 5, 2002 in Buenos Aires, Argentina entitled "Transgenics in Argentine Agriculture: Toward Defining a National Policy" sponsored by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), through its "Trade Knowledge Network" program, and by the Institute for Interamerican Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA)
  Full text of Article by Benbrook: Economic and Environmental Impacts of First Generation Genetically Modified Crops: Lessons from the United States

• Why Pesticide Risks Matter and Pose Tough Challenges for Ecolabel Programs by Charles Benbrook, presentated at the Conference on Ecolabels and the Greening of the Food Market Tufts University, November 7-9, 2002

• A Different Perspective on GM Food, Nature Biotechnology, October 2002 Vol 20, No10 p, 969, posted on AgBioView October 8, 2002

• Monsanto Seeks to Avoid Massive Food Recall Asking USDA To 'Forgive' Presence of GE Material in Canola Seed, The Wall Street Journal, posted in the Agribusiness Examiner, April 15, 2002

• Selling Illegal GE Canola Seed: Center for Food Safety Seeks Criminal Investigation of Monsanto and Aventis, Joe Medelson, Center for Food Safety, posted in the Agribusiness Examiner, April 15, 2002

• Farming The Genetic Frontier, by David G. Victor; C. Ford Runge, Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2002, AgBioView, April 16, 2002

• The Bt Premium Price: What Does it Buy? The Impact of Extra Bt Corn Seed Costs on Farmer Earnings and Corporate Finances, Part 3 in the What's in it for farmers? Series, IATP, February 2002

• Unraveling the DNA Myth -- The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering, by Barry Commoner, Harpers, February 2002

• When Does It Pay To Plant Bt Corn? Farm-Level Economic Impacts of Bt Corn, 1996-2001, IATP, December 2001

• Biotechnology Venture Hits Unexpected Snags, Business/Financial Desk, The New York Times, November 23, 2001

• Do GM Crops Mean Less Pesticide Use?, VIEWPOINT in "Pesticide Outlook," published by the U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry, October 2001

• Welcome to the Spin Machine, by Michael Manville, Freezerbox.com, April 5, 2001
  e-mail exchange which occured between the editors of freezerbox.com and PR firm representing the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) prior to the publication of 'Welcome to the Spin Machine'.

• Biotechnology: Exploiting the Poor and Hungry, Transcript of a speech delivered at a National Convention on Biotechnology and hunger, organised by the Andhra Pradesh Coalition in Defence of Diversity, Deccan Development Society and the Centre for World Solidarity, Hyderabad, India; July 2, 2001

• Rootworm: A Biotech Boon? Corn Designed to Kill Common Pest Stirs Hope as Pesticide Alternative, Washington Post, August 18, 2001

• Factors Shaping Trends in Corn Herbicide Use, Ag BioTech InfoNet Technical Paper Number 5, July 23, 2001

• Engineered Corn Found In White Tortilla Chips, Washington Post News, July 4, 2001

• Science Paper Issues Biotech Caution, Farm Progress, July 3, 2001

• Questions on CDC report "Starlink is not the cause of Allergies", Masaharu Kawata, Assistant Professor, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan (Translated by Katsumi Yamada from Japanese article)

• Gene Silencing as an Adaptive Defence Against Viruses, ABSTRACT, Nature 411, June 15, 2001

• Inspection of the Safety Assessment of Genetically Modified, the Roundup Tolerant Soybean: Monsanto's Dangerous Logic as seen in the Application Document submitted to Japan, By Masaharu Kawata, Assistant Professor, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan

• "Troubled Times Amid Commercial Success for Roundup Ready Soybeans, Glyphosate Efficacy is Slipping and Unstable Transgene Expression Erodes Plant Defenses and Yields", AgBioTech InfoNet Technical Paper Number 4, May 3, 2001

• (190 K) Comments Submitted to Docket Number OPP-30509: Monsanto's One-Year Seed-Production Registration Application for Cry3Bb Transgenic Corn Modified to Control Corn Rootworms, Submitted on behalf of Union of Concerned Scientists, May 3, 2001
  • Supporting Tables (109 K)

• When Transgenes Wander, Should We Worry?, by Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics,University of California, Riverside, California; Plant Physiol. 2001; EDITOR'S CHOICE April 2001, Vol. 125, pp. 1543-1545

• FRONTLINE/NOVA film "Harvest of Fear," airing Tuesday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)
  • Website to be launched in conjunction with the film: Harvest of Fear

• GMO Issues Facing Indiana Farmers in 2001, Corny News Network, Purdue University, March 2001

• What the Biotech Revolution Has to Offer PNW Agriculture and Is WSU Ready for the Ride?, Presentation by Charles Benbrook for WSU Department of Crop and Soil Science Seminar Series, March 15, 2001

• Dow to acquire Rohm and Haas Company's ag chemicals business, Ag Online News, March 8, 2001

• 1977 presentation by Dr. Don Duvick, "Recombinant DNA Molecule Research Potential for Agricultural Crop Plants," delivered before the NRC "Committee for the Consideration of Proposed Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research."

• The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops is published by the American Society of Agronomy, and the Crop Science Society of America. It is a book based on an international symposium organized and hosted by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo, CIMMYT) in Mexico City, 17-22 August 1997
  • The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops, Table of Contents
  • Heterosis: Feeding People and Protecting Natural Resources
           D.N. Duvick
  • Commercial Strategies for Exploitation of Heterosis
           D.N. Duvick

• Predicted Failure of Mandatory Labels for Genetically Modified Foods, SCOPE GM Food Controversy Forum, January 20, 2001

• North Dakota Farmer Complains About Loss of a High-Value Market Because of Lack of Pure Seed

• Full text now available of "Breeding Distrust", the widely acclaimed report on GMO-food regulation released on January 11, 2001 by the Consumer Federation of America.

• GM rice promoters 'have gone too far', The Guardian (UK), February 10, 2001

• Reaping A Biotech Blunder, Fortune, February 19, 2001

• An ordinary miracle, New Scientist, February 3, 2001

• The use of Proprietary Biotechnology Research Inputs at Selected Latin American NAROs, Briefing Paper 44, International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), February 2000

• Biotech policy 'holds great peril', StarLink controversy may be tip of iceberg, consumer group says, Des Moines Register, Washington Bureau, January 12, 2001

• Tumor-Causing Plant Bacteria May Infect Human Cells, Reuters Health News, January 31, 2001

  Earlier evidence of trans-kingdom movement of DNA

  • Bacterial conjugative plasmids bacteria and yeast, Nature, 1989 Jul 20;340(6230):205
  • Movement of shuttle plasmids from Escherichia coli into yeasts other than Saccharomyces cerevisiae using trans-kingdom conjugation, Plasmid 1993 Nov;30(3):251-7

• "U.C. Davis meeting on biotech communications leaves one reporter unimpressed", San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2001
  • Nature Editorial:
  • Survey Documents Profound Public-Private Sector Shift in Plant Breeding Efforts..."Public and private plant breeding", Nature Biotechnology, October 1999

• EPA ReleasesPlant Pesticide Rule

• FDA Releases Draft Biotech Food Rules Guidance Document

• Susan Pusztai explains why Bt corn is NOT "substantially equivalent" in terms of human safety and resistance management

• A Plea to Set Aside Paranoia, AgBioView post from Craig Sams (President of Whole Earth Foods, Ltd.)

• University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, Biotechnology and Food Glossary

• Enola Bean Patent Challenged, RAFI News Release, January 5, 2001

• Dr. Arpad Putzai response to Morton claim that GMO foods are well tested.

• Comments on the Assessment of Scientific Information Concerning StarLink Corn (Cry9C Bt Corn Plant-Pesticide) EPA Docket Number OPP-00688, Consumers Union's comments

• Seedy Squabble in Switzerland, RAFI News Release, November 20, 2000

• Substantial equivalence of antinutrients and inherent plant toxins in genetically modified novel foods, (Abstract), Food and Chemical Toxicology vol. 38 (6) p.473-483, 2000

• Proposed guidelines for pre-commercial evaluation of transgenic and conventional cotton cultivars. (Abstract) 2000 Proceedings Beltwide Cotton Conferences, San Antonio, USA, 4-8 January, 2000: Volume 1. p.503-507

• Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture, Report prepared under the auspices of the Royal Society of London, the USA National Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Sciences, the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences
  • Remarks on "Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture" by Dr. Charles M. Benbrook, July 13, 2000