Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan for Gulf Rig
Associated Press Writers NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Petrochemical giant BP didn't... (AFP/Mira Oberman)
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Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds
The New York Times - May 3, 2010 DYERSBURG, Tenn. For 15…. Superweed rendering by Paul Hoppe
New Democrat Climate Change Bill Passes House of Commons
Wed 05 May 2010 - NDP OTTAWA – Today, the New Democrat Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-311) passed its final vote in the House of ... Subhankar Banerjee/Associated Press
Turning African Farmland Over to Big Business
Grain - Apr - 2010 Editor's comment: A US Government corporation greases the wheels to allow this abhorrent practice to proceed. Yay Barak! l.p. Farmer photo by Grain
GM Food: Angel or Devil?
ISIS Press Release 04/05/10 --------------------------- ISBN:978-7-300-10958-9 Author: Yimin Publisher: Renmin University Press (May 2010) Language: Chinese 165 pages Foreword By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho It has been 16 years since the first genetically modified (GM) crop - Flavr Savr tomato for delayed ripening - was approved for commercial growing in the USA. It was also the year that I became a ‘science activist', on realising how science itself was falling prey to corporate manipulation. Flavr Savr was soon withdrawn as a failure; but it was only a decoy, as agbiotech corporations like Monsanto were after much bigger game. Genetic modification actually focussed on three major crops and two main traits: herbicide-tolerance (HT) due to glyphosate-insensitive form of the enzyme targeted by the herbicide - 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) - derived from the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens , and insect-resistance due to one or more toxins derived from
Atrazine: Poisoning the Well
Natural Resources Defense Council Atrazine Continues to Contaminate Surface Water and Drinking Water in the US....