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Sleepy? Hunger might help you stay awake 1.9.2010 MSNBC
Sleepy? Hunger might help you stay awake
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GM potatoes beating killer blight 1.9.2010 BBC: Science
Researchers working on trials of genetically modified crops in Norfolk have grown potatoes which resist disease.
Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse 30.8.2010 New Scientist: Sex and Cloning
Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse
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Gates Foundation ties with Monsanto under fire from activists 29.8.2010 Seattle Times: Local
Local activists are mounting a campaign to get the Gates Foundation to cut its ties with the agribusiness giant Monsanto and other firms involved in developing bioengineered crops.
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Judge bans planting of modified sugar beets 28.8.2010 SFGate: Business & Technology
Judge bans planting of modified sugar beets
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Why the case for GM salmon is still hard to stomach | Robin McKie 27.8.2010 The Guardian -- World Latest
Proponents of GM promise bigger cuts of meat, more efficient farming and animals less prone to disease, but is it an unnecessary abuse of nature? • GM salmon may go on sale in US after public consultation The bid by the US Federal Drug Administration to approve the first genetically modified animal – a modified salmon – for human consumption will certainly not be an isolated addition to our cuisine. A host of domestic animals, including several other species of fish, have also been genetically altered by scientists – mostly to improve growth rates – and will be considered for approval for sale to the public in the near future. Thus the GM salmon is a mere starter in the culinary revolution with other seafood examples being provided by ...
Monsanto in Gates' Clothing? The Emperor's New GMOs 27.8.2010 Commondreams.org Views
by Eric Holt Gimenez

If you had any doubts about where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is really placing its bets, AGRA Watch's recent announcement of the Foundation's investment of $23.1 million in 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock should put them to rest. Genetic engineering: full speed ahead.

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Genzyme bouncing back after shortage 27.8.2010 Boston Globe: Business
Genzyme bouncing back after shortage
A Month Without Monsanto: What Does it Take to Cut out the GMO Giant? 27.8.2010 AlterNet
Once I started looking, Monsanto was everywhere.
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'Frankenfish' May Go on Sale in US After Public Consultation 26.8.2010 Common Dreams: Headlines
by Chris McGreal

US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in 18 months.

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FDA to review salmon with designer genes 26.8.2010 Seattle Times: Nation & World
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will convene a meeting of its Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee to review scientific data and make a recommendation about whether a genetically engineered salmon is fit for the dinner plate.
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Apple Invites Media to Sept. 1 Event 26.8.2010 NY Times: Technology
Apple invites reporters to a Sept. 1 event in San Francisco, but says nothing about what it plans to announce.

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GM salmon may go on sale in US after public consultation 26.8.2010 Guardian: Science
Food and Drug administration begins 60-day process to approve animal critics call a 'frankenfish' US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in 18 months. Environmentalists and scientists see the decision as marking a threshold. If it is approved it is likely to open the door to a large range of GM animals being raised for consumption. If not, scientists ...
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A Month Without Monsanto 25.8.2010 Commondreams.org Views
by April Dávila

In January of this year, while procrastinating on Facebook, I followed a link to an article reporting on the negative health effects related to consuming Monsanto's genetically modified corn. Clicking on that link was one of those moments on which I look back and laugh. I had no idea how my life was about to change.

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Sensible Eaters or Global Guinea Pigs? 25.8.2010 NYT > Environment
Sensible Eaters or Global Guinea Pigs?
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The FDA needs egging on | Henry Miller 24.8.2010 Guardian: Environment
If we had a sensible and safe policy that permitted more genetic engineering in farming, this egg recall might have been avoided The FDA has initiated a recall of half a billion eggs , the most extensive in history, because of salmonella contamination that has already sickened 1,300. The head of the agency, Margaret Hamburg, said in interviews that regulators "need additional resources, we need additional authority [and] greater ability to trace back products to their source so that we can identify how the contamination occurred and what products are at risk." A plea for more power and resources is bureaucrats' typical response to any crisis, but ironically, unwise FDA policies place obstacles in the way of technology to enhance disease ...
'Informed farmers vital to food security' (Cached) 24.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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Don't be guided by emotions on GM food issue: expert (Cached) 24.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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French activists uproot GM vines at research centre 24.8.2010 Guardian: Environment
Ministers condemn 'wanton destruction' in raid against government-authorised trials into genetically modified crop For the second time in less than a year, genetically modified vines being tested by the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in its Colmar centre in eastern France have been uprooted and destroyed. Now that France no longer grows or tests GM corn, which used to be a regular summer target of the Faucheurs Volontaires (voluntary reapers) movement, attention has turned to the vines. This month Faucheurs destroyed transgenic vines being tested for protection against court-noué, the fanleaf virus transmitted by earthworms. In September 2009 a single activist had cut down 70 vines at the same site. At dawn on ...
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In the Fields of Italy, a Conflict Over Corn 24.8.2010 NY Times: World
An Italian agronomist, defying the government, has planted two fields of genetically modified corn, while environmentalists and globalization opponents also have taken matters into their own hands.
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