New Study Shows GE Corn Causes Infertility and Abnormal Gene Expression
A new study commissioned by the Austrian government has found that a diet of GM corn causes infertility and abnormal gene expression in mice. Most studies on the health effects of GM corn have been either short term, or corporate funded and controlled. This study adds to a growing body of independent evidence that GMO's may not be safe.
Help Stop GM Trees
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a cooperative effort of the STOP GE Trees Campaign and its
affiiliated groups: http://www.nogetrees.org.
COMMENTS NEEDED BY NOVEMBER 3 TO STOP GE PAPAYA IN FLORIDA!
Help stop the commercial planting of genetically engineered
papayas in
Florida and the mainland US -- the first
major cultivated GE tree on
the US
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Protect California's organic farmers--Ask your state senator to support AB 541
AB 541 is close to becoming California's first state law protecting farmers from the hazards of genetically engineered crops. Having already passed the Assembly, it has cleared its Senate committees and is ready to be voted on by the full Senate in August. Please let your Senator know that you support this bill!
Monsanto's Vultures are Closing In on the Food Crisis
by Annie Shattuck
The vultures of corporate America are closing in on the carcass of cheap food. With corn selling at $5.86 a bushel (up from just $2.00 in 2005, and $4.28 just six months ago), the food price crisis has been somewhat of a windfall for farmers. But the briefly glimmering hope for rural communities is about to go out.
Last week Monsanto announced it would increase the price of its corn seed by $100 a bag, or about 35%. $100 a bag! So if you are a farmer with 1,000 acres in corn, Monsanto will be demanding an extra forty grand this year.
URGENT Call for Solidarity Action with Paraguayan campesino movement against soy monoculture
To the Relevant Authorities:
We direct this letter to the Paraguayan authorities and Cargill--the largest exporter of soy in the country--in relation to the citizen protest that will take place on March 26, 2008 in the department of San Pedro. This protest, organized by the Interdistrict Coordination in Defense of Sovereignty, under the banner “Against the Soy Invasion”, expresses the concern of campesino and Indigenous communities for the serious social and environmental problems that are being caused and exacerbated by the expansion of transgenic soy monoculture.
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE and THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF GMO-FREE REGIONS
On 4 and 5 February 2003 the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture was established in Florence, with the support and active participation of the Government of the Region of Tuscany, with the aim of working to ensure that food and agriculture become more socially and ecologically sustainable, more accessible, and putting food quality, food safety and public health above corporate profits.
"Frankenfoods" or Brave New World?
The genetically engineered foods question
In The Canadian Nation
2007-9-14
by Kim Lundgren
Sceptics claim that the so-called "Frankenstein foods" pose an insidious threat to the environment and to the world's food supply. Proponents envision a future in which the wonders of biogenetics benefit humankind. Consumers worldwide fear yet-to-be-determined health risks.
The debate surrounding the genetic engineering of food has escalated in the past six months. Citing conflicting research, opposing camps trade accusations of hysteria and corporate greed.
So which is it? Here's how the sides line up.
ETC Group
Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC group) is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power.
Genetic Resources Action International
GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
Crop Choice
CropChoice is an alternative news and information source for American farmers and consumers about genetically modified crops, corporate agribusiness concentration, farm and trade policy, sustainable agriculture, wind farming and alternative energy, and rural economic and social issues. CropChoice has news that big companies may not want farmers to hear. The CropChoice news service provides balance. It complements other news sources and helps American producers make the best planting and management decisions.