Doctors and government officials are in a race to save one of modern "miracle cures," antibiotics that are essential for treating serious food poisoning and other infections. Unfortunately Bayer Corporation, maker of Bayer Aspirin and Flintstones vitamins, is erecting hurdles in the path of this public health effort.
Published in the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Winter 2000, Vol. 9, Issue 1. This paper was also a presentation given by Mark Ritchie at the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec on August 29, 1999. The focus of this paper is the the impact of agricultural export dumping by grain corporations based in the U.S.
IATP sent a letter to Attorney's General in seven states calling for immediate action to protect farmers from extensive harm in relation to genetically engineered StarLink corn due to reckless corporate behavior that violated the terms of StarLink registration by allowing it to enter the human food supply.
The US is exporting a variety of genetically engineered corn that has not been approved for human consumption in the US. StarLink was grown in 1998 on about 10,000 acres in the US, some 250,000 acres in 1999, and more than 350,000 acres in 2000.
The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NACEC) released a study showing the dioxin emissions from point sources in Mexico, the United States and Canada is contaminating food and the environment in the Canadian Arctic. They identified the incinerator operated by Xcel Energy in Red Wing, Minnesota as one of the major sources of this contamination.
Climate change mitigation can result in many benefits including greater valuation for environmental services provided by agriculture and regeneration of rural communities. This report takes a look at the possibilities for farmers and presents policy recommendations to make this a reality.
Former chemical industry lobbyist Steven Milloy and Dr. Michael Gough gave the folks at Ben & Jerry's a real "ice cream headache" last week. They presented findings at an international symposium on dioxin, one of the most toxic compounds ever studied.
By Ben Lilliston and Niel Ritchie. This article was published in the Multinational Monitor in the July/August, 2000 issue. The French version is included below.
