Environment

EU Officials Urge Biotech Food Changes

Associated Press | July 1, 2003 BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union officials urged lawmakers Tuesday to approve regulations on genetically modified foods that could end an EU ban on new biotech products, but keep labels that the United States says could make the foods impossible to sell.

Transatlantic Consumer Groups Call Upon Us Government To Drop WTO GMO Case

Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue | June 24, 2003 Groups characterize the US suit as a calculated maneuver to impose genetically engineered products on an unwilling world

Hundreds in Sacramento Protest Bioengineered Food

Los Angeles Times | By Kathleen Flynn and Joel Rubin | June 23, 2003 SACRAMENTO -- Hundreds of protesters knotted this city's downtown core Sunday on the eve of an international agricultural conference that has become the latest showdown over genetically modified crops and U.S. corporate farming.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America Announces New Executive Director

CEC | June 19, 2003 Montreal, 19 - The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce the appointment of William V. Kennedy, Ph.D., to a three-year term as the new Executive Director of the Secretariat of the CEC. The term will begin on 2 September 2003.

Trade Pact on Gene-Altered Goods to Take Effect in 90 Days

New York Times | By ANDREW POLLACK | June 14, 2003 A new global treaty that imposes restrictions on exports of genetically modified seeds, animals and crops is set to take effect, injecting a new element into already heated international disputes over agricultural biotechnology.

IATP""s Kristin Dawkins vs. Alex Avery of the Hudson Institute

METROFARM.COM | June 5, 2003 They said you could lead a horse to water, but you couldnt make it drink. Then someone invented the World Trade Organization. Now the US is suing the European Union into eating genetically-modified foods!

Throwing Seeds And Caution To The Winds

Sydney Morning Herald | By Stephanie Peatling | June 4, 2003 Environmentalists spurn genetically modified crops on the principle of erring on the side of caution. Not so the Carr Government. Stephanie Peatling reports.

EU Lawmakers Ratify UN Protocol On Trade In GMOs

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES | June 4, 2003