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Genetically engineered pig in Canada |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 |
A Canadian project aimed at creating a genetically engineered pig whose manure would be less harmful to the environment is being halted after failure to find a company willing to bring the animal to market, according to the lead researcher. The less polluting pig, called the “enviropig,” has a gene that allows it to better digest phosphorous in its food, therefore reducing the amount of phosphorous in the manure. Phosphorous can contribute to algal blooms and other environmental problems. Ontario Pork, an organization of hog farmers that had been financially supporting the project at the University of Guelph in Ontario, has decided to stop spending money on it. Cecil Forsberg, an emeritus professor of molecular and cellular biology at the university who was a co-inventor of the pig, said he agreed with the decision. When the first such pig was created in 1999, “I had the feeling in seven or eight or nine years that transgenic animals probably would be acceptable. But I was wrong,” Dr. Forsberg said. “It’s time to stop the program until the rest of the world catches up,” he said. “And it is going to catch up.”
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China Suspends Commercialisation of Genetically Engineered Rice and Wheat - Oct 2011 |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Monday, 21 November 2011 |
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Dear Friends, Our CRIIGEN expertise for the Chinese Biosecurity Committee some years ago announced the same colour of decisions. After India, China and many african countries, the analysis confirms that only America is developing patented and commercialized GM pesticide plants. *************
After several years of scientific and public debates it is reported that China will not commercialise genetically modified (GM) staple food crops such as rice and wheat for the next 5 to 10 years. The widely read Economic Observer, a financial weekly publication, citing a source close to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) confirmed this move.
This seems to be in line with the increased caution over GM technology that has reached the highest level of the government. At the Fourth International Biosafety Workshop in Beijing in April 2011 co-organised by several Chinese scientific organisations, a senior official of the Ministry of Environment in his opening speech said that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has called for more caution on GMOs.
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China Suspends Commercialisation of Genetically Engineered Rice and Wheat - Oct 2011 |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Monday, 10 October 2011 |
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Our CRIIGEN expertise for the Chinese Biosecurity Committee some years ago announced the same colour of decisions. After India, China and many african countries, the analysis confirms that only America is developing patented and commercialized GM pesticide plants. After several years of scientific and public debates it is reported that China will not commercialise genetically modified (GM) staple food crops such as rice and wheat for the next 5 to 10 years. The widely read Economic Observer, a financial weekly publication, citing a source close to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) confirmed this move in its 23 September 2011 issue: see Item 1 below.
This seems to be in line with the increased caution over GM technology that has reached the highest level of the government. At the Fourth International Biosafety Workshop in Beijing in April 2011 co-organised by several Chinese scientific organisations, a senior official of the Ministry of Environment in his opening speech said that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has called for more caution on GMOs.
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Two Mexican states ban GM corn |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 October 2011 )
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Ireland Says not in this country: Bans Genetically Modified Crops |
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GM corn no better than natural corn |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011 |
Obama administration to approve drought-resistant GM corn that USDA says grows no better than natural corn
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032453_GM_corn_USDA.html |
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Federal Court rescinds USDA approval of GM sugar beets - August 2010 |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Friday, 27 August 2010 |
August 13, 2010
FEDERAL COURT ORDERS BANS PLANTING OR SALE OF CONTROVERSIAL CROP - COURT DENIES MONSANTO REQUEST TO ALLOW CONTINUED PLANTING
San Francisco - Today Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, issued a ruling granting the request of plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club to rescind the USDA's approval of genetically engineered RoundupReady® sugar beets. In September 2009, the Court had found that the USDA had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by approving the Monsanto-engineered biotech crop without first preparing an Environmental Impact Statement. The crop was engineered to resist the effects of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, which it sells to farmers together with the patented seed. Similar RoundupReady® crops have led to increased use of herbicides, proliferation of herbicide resistant weeds, and contamination of conventional and organic crops. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 August 2010 )
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Risks of GMOs to Biodiversity and Human Health |
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Written by Frédérique Baudouin
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 |
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Submission from Norway on the Risks of GMOs to Biodiversity and Human Health
At its fourth meeting in 2008, Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety established an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management. The AHTEG is considering, among other things, the framework to identify GMOs or specific traits that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, including risks to human health.
Governments and relevant organizations were invited to submit scientifically sound information on the types of GMOs or traits that may have adverse effects on biological diversity and human health that would be compiled and included in a synthesis report for consideration by the AHTEG and Parties.
In its submission, Norway highlighted information from scientific studies which raise "early warning" signs on the effects of GMOs on biological environments and on human health. |
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Conflict of Interests Concerning an ex ESFA-Official: - Jan. 2010 |
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Written by HH
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Sunday, 18 April 2010 |
Conflict of Interests Concerning an ex ESFA-Official: Suzy Renckens We met this lady in the EFSA office in Parma, where we were invited to discuss our counter-expertise results concerning toxicity signs caused by the consumption of Monsanto maize MON863, as soon as they were published (Seralini et al. MON 863, IJBS, 2007). She played a great role in the writing of EFSA’s opinions on GMOs. Previously, EFSA’s standpoints had seemed a little odd to us, as they neglected to take into account the specific effects linked to gender or dose after GMO consumption. The standpoints were a mere copy of Monsanto’s arguments. The following article, in the French online newspaper Mediapart, is quite enlightening on the operation of EFSA and about the decisions they make on GMOs: http://www.mediapart.fr/club/blog/sebastien-portal/250110/ue-un-cas-de-portes-tournantes-entraine-m-barroso-dans-une-polemiq |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 January 2011 )
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Cultivated GMOs Worldwide 2009 (from ISAAA) |
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Written by HH
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Sunday, 18 April 2010 |
PUBLICATION OF THE ISAAA REPORT - February 2010
After 14 years of commercial release, GMOs are reaching 8.9% of world cultures. These GMOs are distributed only in4 plants (soya, maize, cotton, colza or canola), and the 2 first ones represent 83% of these, despite numerous other unused authorizations. They all are pesticide plants modified either to be herbicide tolerant (i.e. to absorb an herbicide like Roundup without dying - 62.4%), or to produce one or two new insecticides (21.4%), or both. Other promised characters are not there. America groups 89% of GMOs in surface, or 97% of food and feed GMOs excluding the indian and chinese cotton. On this continent GMOs are not labeled nor assessed more than three months on mammalian health before acceptance, and often not at all anymore with blood analyses. They are thus more easily spread out. By contrast Europe cultivates less than 0.2% of GMOs, overall in Spain. We regret that a body like ISAAA begins its report by "biotech crops and their vital contribution to the alleviation of poverty, hunger and malnutrition" citing a 1970 Nobel Prize, since these GMOs have from the beginning fed essentially porcs, cows and poultry of rich countries. |
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