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Posted on August 16, 2001
Characterisation of The Roundup Ready Soybean Insert
Belgian scientists discover “unknown DNA” in Monsanto’s genetically
engineered “Roundup Ready” soybeans. European Food Research and
Technology, 213:107-112, 2001
Mystery DNA Is Discovered in Soybeans by Scientists
The New York Times, August 16, 2001
Greenpeace Appeals To Scientists For Help To Identify
The Origin Of Unknown DNA in Roundup Ready Soybean, Open letter from Greenpeace
International Science Unit, Exeter, U.K., August 15, 2001
"Roundup Ready soya: Incomplete data, missing evaluation and insufficient
controls" , Greenpeace background paper, August 15, 2001
U.S. Firms Seek Mass Cloning of Chickens
New Scientist, August 15, 2001
Study Confirms Crop Pests' Preference For Corn In Northeastern
And Mid-Atlantic Refuges, Entomological Society Of America, August 16, 2001
Posted on August 15, 2001
"EPA Has Big Decision on StarLink Request"
High Plains Journal commentary, June 21, 2001
"International Trade:
Concerns Over Biotechnology Challenge U.S. Agricultural Exports" General Accounting
Office report (GAO-01-727) ,
June 2000
Science Good, Nature Bad:
The Biotech Dogma , AlterNet posting,
June 26, 2001
Comments on: Environment Assessment: Confined field study of a
transgenic pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella Professor Joe Cummins, Professor Emeritus
of Genetics, University of Western Ontario, June 26, 2001
Regulatory Standards in the WTO: Comparing
Intellectual Property Rights with Competition Policy,
Environmental Protection, and Core Labor Standards
Institute for International Economics Working Paper 00-1,
Recent survey marks growth in biotech soybeans
Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois, July 06, 2001
Why poor nations would lose in a biotech war on hunger
Sierra Club, July 7, 2001
"EPA Warns Doctor to Not Eat StarLink
In His Presentation on the Modified Corn" Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2001
"Genetic Engineering of Food Crops for the Third World: An Appropriate
Response to Poverty, Hunger and Lagging Productivity?" Dr. Peter Rossett, Institute for Food
and Development Policy (Food First), May 28, 2001
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Politics,
Profits Increasing Risks of Biotech Foods Agence France Presse, July 10,2001
Yellow Soybeans After Glyphosate Applications
University of Missouri-Columbia; Integrated Pest & Crop Management
Newsletter, August 10, 2001
Posted on August 14, 2001
Transgenic Cotton in Mexico: Economic and Environmental Impacts
AGBIOVIEW posting, August 14, 2001
US May Provoke Row Over GM Food Labelling,
The Independent (London), August 14, 2001
Posted on August 13, 2001
UNDP Responds to Critics of HDR 2001 Report
Open Letter from Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Lead Author of the UNDP HDR 2001 report, August 7, 2001
"Genes passed from crops to weeds persist for generations"
Ohio State University study, August 9, 2001
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