GMO

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.

Corporate phantoms demonize the GE food debate

Two weeks ago, Guardian columnist George Monbiot described how the Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, invented fake citizens to post messages on internet listservers. "These phantoms had launched a campaign to force Nature magazine to retract a paper it had published, alleging that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated with GM pollen," Monbiot writes in today's column.

NGO Statement on the Third Intergovernmental Conference on the Cartagena Protocol

NGO Statement Final Plenary Third Intergovernmental Conference on the Cartagena Protocol The Hague - April 26, 2002

Australia Fails to Block Consensus: 177 Other Countries Agree a Precautionary Approach to Risk Management on Biodiversity

IATP Press Release | By Kristin Dawkins | 19 April 2002

Farm Groups from U.S. and Canada Unite on GM Wheat Ban

Action coincides with International Day of Farmers' Struggle FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | APRIL 17, 2002

Global campaign seeks to end Starbucks use of GE ingredients, and promote use of fair trade coffee

Consumer, environmental, and social justice activists in 300 US cities and seven other nations (England, Scotland, Israel, Austria, Canada, Australia, & Japan) leafleted and stage protests in front of Starbucks coffee shops from February 23 to March 2. These protests were timed to coincide with Starbucks' annual meeting in Seattle on February 26.

China to Ratifiy Biosafety Protocol

China Daily | by ZHANG YONG | March 5, 2002 China is to ratify an international convention on biosafety to further regulate the country's development and implementation of modern biotechnologies, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).

U.S. Official Courts African Allies for Brewing Biotech-Food Fight

Wall Street Journal | February 20, 2002 | By NEIL KING JR., Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL PETIT, South Africa -- On his grand tour of Africa this past week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick has had many warm chats with top government officials. But when he met a Zulu cotton farmer on Friday, the trade official really perked up.