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
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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 Flavr Savr was soon withdrawn as a failure; but it was only a decoy, as agbiotech corporations like Monsanto were after much bigger game.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....
Gulf Oil Spill Sparks Calls for Heavy Fine and Drilling Ban
guardian.co - May 4 - 2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger ends... US Coast Guard photo
New Figures From US Show Scale of Bee Catastrophe
The Observer, 2 May 2010 The world may be on the brink... Please also read this. Honey bee photo by l.p.
Louisiana Oil Spill May be Five Times Bigger Than Previously Thought
By Philip Sherwell, US Editor - Telegraph.co.uk - 01 May 2010 Oil from the wrecked…
Tests Prove Hunter Shot Offspring of Hybrid Polar-Grizzly Bear
By: The Canadian Press - 2/05/2010 ULUKHAKTOK, N.W.T. - Researchers in...
Want to Prevent Oil Spill Disasters? Stop Driving!
AlterNet / By Jason Henderson - Apr 30-2010 A submerged oil well is spewing...
BC’s Minister Announces Sacred Headwaters Moratorium to 2012
April 29 2010 » Media Releases » Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition Special Hazelton, BC: A permanent ban...
Debate Rages Over Effect of GM-Seed Bill
By: Laura Rance-1/05/2010 - Winnipeg Free Press May protect a few farmers or hurt many
Officials Tour Spill Area, Criticize BP’s Response
HOUSTON CHRONICLE - April 30, 2010 WASHINGTON — As oil began... Dr. Erica Miller, with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, treats a Northern Gannet bird, covered in oil from the massive spill. (AP)