Genetic Engineering file (part 2)
The Artificialization of Life
Seeds of Deception
The explosive exposé Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith documents significant
health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and the intense industry influence
and political corruption that allow them on the market. Hailed as the best book
on the topic, many believe that the revelations in this book can topple an industry.
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/index.php
GM crops specially engineered to produce drugs
The possibilities for growing drugs in plants - dubbed "pharming" - have been
researched for years, with scientists developing a wide range of vaccines and
other medicines in several common foods in the laboratory. But now Ventria Bioscience,
based in Sacramento, is to break new ground by planting 130 acres with two new
varieties of GM rice that will produce lactoferrin and lysozyme, infection-fighting
chemicals that it will market for use in oral rehydration products to treat
severe diarrhoea.
http://www.rense.com/general48/ca.htm
Bon Apetite!
GM Crops Being Mixed With Human, Other Animal Genes
GM Crops Being Mixed With Human, Other Animal Genes Field Experiments Of Bizarre
Genetically Engineered Crops Doubled In Past Two Years Authorized Experiments
Are A Risk To Human Health And The Environment
http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/1030-03.htm
Seeds of Deception
Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety
of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating, by Jeffrey M. Smith
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/seeds_of_deception.cfm
BioDemocracy News
#43 (August 2003)
Quarterly News By: Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org
US Will Try To Force Europe To Take GM Foods
By Edward Alden in Washington
Financial Times.com 1-11-3
The top US trade official said on Thursday he was ready to launch a World Trade
Organisation challenge against the European Union over its refusal to lift a
de facto moratorium on the approval of new genetically-modified crops.
http://www.rense.com/general33/mhm.htm
Soya and Genetic Engineering
The soya and Genetic Engineering
story
Genetic Engeneered Golden Rice
With the help of Monsanto and the Rockefeller Foundation
The "selling" of Vitamin A
rice as a miracle cure for blindness is based on blindness
Natural seeds
You will find an excellent collection of non-hybrid, non-genetically
engineered garden vegetable, herb and garden fruit seeds. Be sure to see our
regular, bulk and Free Seed offers, linked below. The Ark Institute™ encourages
everyone to become as food self-reliant as possible, guarding against inevitable
disruptions in commercial food production, distribution and safety. We also
encourage everyone to either grow or seek out healthy, wholesome foods instead
of fat- and chemical-laced fast and convenience foods and untested, genetically
engineered substitutes for the real thing.
Natural seeds
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Towards a New Ethic of Science
Towards a New Ethic of Science
Mae-Wan Ho -
Institute of Science in Society and Biology Department, Open University,
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
Introduction
Genetic engineering biotechnology is raising a whole range of
ethical issues, and a new breed of ‘bioethicists’ have been enlisted to consider
not only genetic engineered (GE) crops, but especially animal and human cloning,
genetic screening for diseases, pre-natal and pre-implantation diagnosis, experiments
on human embryos, xenotransplantation, and gene replacement therapy.
The public have expressed deep concerns about ‘playing God’; about exploiting
human beings and animals, and the re-emergence of genetic discrimination and
eugenics which have blotted the history of much of the twentieth century. There
are strong moral objections to the new patents that turn life and life-necessities
into commodities. Patents on genetic engineered seeds prevent farmers from saving
and replanting seeds, thereby intensifying the corporate monopoly on food which
has already marginalized and destroyed the livelihoods of family farmers all
over the world.
Towards
a New Ethic of Science
How the Terminator Terminates
An explanation for the non-scientist of a remarkable patent
for killing second generation seeds of crop plants
By Martha L. Crouch, Associate Professor of Biology
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
How
the Terminator Terminates
USDA
Approves Terminator Seed Technology Despite Opposition
Commodities Bureau in Mumbai FinancialExpress.com
8-12-1
It's official now. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week that it has concluded negotiations to license the notorious Terminator' technology to its seed industry partner, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL). As a result of joint research, the USDA and D&PL are co-owners of three patents on the controversial technology, that genetically modifies plants to produce sterile seeds, preventing farmers from re-using harvested seed. A licensing agreement establishes the terms and conditions under which a party can use a patented technology.
Although many of the gene-giants hold patents on Terminator technology, D&PL is the only company that has publicly declared its intention to commercialise Terminator seeds. "USDA's decision to license Terminator flies in the face of international public opinion and betrays the public trust," said Ms Hope Shand, research-director of an international organisation dedicated to sustainable use of bio-diversity - RAFI."
Terminator technology has
been universally condemned by civil society; banned by international agricultural
research institutes, censured by United Nation bodies, even shunned by Monsanto,
and yet the US Government has officially sanctioned commercialisation of the
technology by licensing it to one of the world's largest seed companies," explains
Ms Shand. "USDA's role in developing Terminator seeds is a disgraceful example
of corporate welfare, involving a technology that is bad for farmers, dangerous
for the environment and disastrous for world food security," adds
Ms Silvia Ribeiro of RAFI.
USDA
Approves Terminator Seed Technology Despite Opposition article
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