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• Mad Cow: Scientific Data Offer No Proof Of Beef Safety: Stanley Prusiner - Wall Street Journal 29dec03
• Mad Cow: Second Herd Quarantined in America's BSE Scare as Feed Mills Accused of Defying Rules - The Independent (UK) & NYT 27dec03
• Mad Cow: As Probe of Infected Cow Spreads, So Does Worry -  Washington Post 27dec03
• Mad Cow: Mad Cow Alerts Began Years Ago: Enforcement of Feed Ban Was Assailed as Inadequate in 2000 -  Washington Post 27dec03
• Mad Cow: FDA Blasted Over Past Enforcement of Feed Ban -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 27dec03
• After Mad-Cow Find, Concern with Prevention - Christian Science Monitor 26dec03
• Mad Cow Found In the U.S. for First Time - Wall Street Journal 24dec03
• Mad Cow Discovery Could Hobble Beef Sales in USA -  USA TODAY 24dec03
• Mad Cow Update: How to Limit Your Risk - Consumer Reports Dec03
• Mad Cow: Nations Ban U.S. Beef Imports On News of Mad-Cow Disease - AP 24dec03
• Mad Cow: Countries Take Steps To Ban U.S. Beef: Japan and South Korea, Set Bans, Plan Recalls / Wall Street Journal 24dec03
• Mad Cow: USDA Briefing on Discovery Of Mad Cow Disease in U.S. - AP 23dec03
• Mad Cow Disease Suspected in Washington State - Seattle Times, AP, Reuters, NY Times 23dec03
  • Also see: US Farmers' Hideous Pursuit Of Profit - London Daily Mail (UK) 12jun99
• Genetically-Engineered Christmas Trees Take Shape - AP 22dec03
• Compost Rules Draw Scrutiny: Milwaukie Compost-Maker Cited for Mixing Pressure-Treated Wood - The Oregonian 22dec03
• Got Hormones?  Stanley Bennett says, "We're in the business of marketing milk, not Monsanto's drugs" - Time Magazine 22dec03
• At What Cost? Rural farming communities and states collapse  - The New Farm 16dec03
• Feedlot Waste Alters Fish Characteristics: Study Discovers Hormonal Changes -  LA Times 14dec03
• Who Will Control Agriculture and Knowledge? - Synthesis/Regeneration 12dec03
• GM Crops Increase Pesticide Use -  ISIS 11dec03
• Who Will Control Agriculture? - Michael Dorsey / Double Helix Channel 21 10dec03
• Antibiotic-Resistant Germs: In Soil, Water, Food, Air -  Star-Ledger (NJ) 8dec03
• New California Farm Law Shields Farms From Protesters -  AP & Bill Text  7dec03
• Feedlot Effluent: Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Cattle Feedlot Effluent on an Aquatic Sentinel Species, the Flathead Minnow - Environmental Health Perspectives 1dec03
• Organic Outperforms Conventional in Drought Years -  Plant & Pest Advisory 20nov03
• Pioneer Offers 40 Corn Hybrids that Resist Popular Herbicide Roundup -  Des Moines Register 19nov03
• Organic Crops Perform up to 100 Percent Better in Drought and Flood Years  - New Farm 7nov03
• Miguel Altieri: Scientist Mourns Gill Tract's Demise - Berkeley Daily Planet 28oct03
• UK Study Finds New Risks in Genetically Engineered Crops - IPS Columnist Service 28oct03
• US Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops: Americans accused of brutal 'punishment' tactics against villagers -  The lndependent (UK) 12oct03
• Sewage Sludge: Scientists Question Safety of Sludge -The Oregonian 12oct03
• No One Will Insure GM Crops -  farm (UK) 7oct03
• NGO's seek standing in Monsanto v. Schmeiser - Press Release / Canada NewsWire 30sep03
• Corn Pollen Drifts Further than Thought - @gricu    lture Online 29sep03
• Tyson: U.S. Farmers Battle Food Companies Over Contracting -  Reuters 29sep03
• Dow Faces Suit Over South African Pollution: Farmers Claim Herbicides Destroyed Land, Lawyer Says -  Bloomberg News 23sep03
• Organic Outperforms Conventional in Drought Years -  Plant & Pest Advisory 20nov03
• U.S. Organic Farmer Speaks to Campesinos in Cancùn -  CropChoice 13sep03
• "The WTO Kills Farmers": In Memory of Lee Kyung Hae -  Interhemispheric Resource Center 11sep03
• Cancún: Poorer Nations Plead Farmers' Case at Trade Talks -  NY Times 11sep03
• Indian Farmers Target Monsanto: Following the suicide of 70 farmers in last 3 months - BBC News 11sep03
• Poor WTO Nations Want Rich Nations To Cut Farm Subsidies - AP 9sep03
• EU Court Upholds Italy's Ban On Genetically Modified Food - Wall Street Journal 9sep03
• Organic crops perform up to 100 percent better in drought and flood years - New Farm 7nov03
  • Organic Outperforms Conventional: The performance of organic and conventional cropping systems in an extreme climate year - Am. J. of Alt. Agriculture 1sep03
• Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal -  Acres  1sep03
• Factory Farms: Cost of Farmers' Court Challenge: Nearly $250M -  Public Opinion (PA) 30aug03
• How US Agricultural Policies are Destroying the Livelihoods of Mexican Corn Farmers - Oxfam International / Exec. Summ. / Briefing Paper 27aug03
  • US Farm Subsidies Fuel Mexico Corn Crisis - Press Release / Oxfam International 27aug03
  • U.S. Corn Subsidies Said to Damage Mexico - NY Times 27aug03
• UK: Blair Forced to Scale Back his Plan to Introduce GM Farming - Independent (UK) 24aug03
• Heatwave's Warning for Future of Farming -  New Scientist 20aug03
• Deal Reached on Subsidies for Farmers - NY Times 14aug03
• The Hazards of Sewage Sludge - Sarasota Herald-Tribune 17ug03
• Antibiotics: WHO Urges End to Use of Antibiotics for Animal Growth - Washington Post 13aug03
• Farm Subsidies Common Globally, Bypass Small Farms  - Reuters 6aug03
• 30 million Poultry Birds Die Of Influenza in North -  United News Of India (UNI) 30jul03
• Connecticut Halts Poultry Shows  - AP 23jul03
• India's Future Lies In Organic Farming  - The Financial Express (Bombay) 20jul03
• Yes, We'll Have No Bananas  - Globe and Mail (Toronto) 19jul03
• Africa: Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us - Amadou Toumani Touri & Blaise Compaori [Compaoré] / NY Times 11jul03
• Mad Cow Disease: Link to OG Pesticides: The Disease Hits Canada. Is the U.S. next? - Pesticides and You Summer 03
• For Family Farmers A Time to Choose: "Don't Whine, Organize !!!" - The Agribusiness Examiner i.261, 23jun03
• Dairy Farmers Urge Congress to Support Sound Dairy Policy Alternatives -  National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) 5jun03

• The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization - Harper's Magazine Jun03

• Mad Cow Case Raises Testing Issue: Critics Say U.S. is Badly in Need of Better Defense Against Disease -  USA TODAY 21may03

• Organic Farms Contaminated by Transgenic Organisms - ENS 15may03
• Family Farmers Denounce U.S. Complaint Against the EU Over Genetically Modified Organisms - CropChoice 14may03

• Lack of Water and Wages has this Farming Center on Ropes  -  SF Chronicle 30apr03

• World Agricultural Forum: Neutral, Inclusive  - ZNet 18apr03

• China: Export Apple of China's Eye Is, er, Apples  - NY Times 4apr03
• Why Mexico's Small Corn Farmers Go Hungry - Editorial / NY Times 3mar03

• Philippines: Luzon Rice Farmers go Clean and Green - IRRI Mar03

• Brazil: Reclaiming the Promised Land  - Street Spirit Mar03
• Farmers say that Genetic Engineering Compromises Farmers' Freedom to Farm - PRNewswire 27feb03

• Dioxin Contamination in US Feed Supplement sent to Canada  - The Producer 24feb03

• NGOs Call for Rejection of WTO Agriculture Modalities Paper  - Third World Network Report (Geneva) 24feb03

• Roundup Unready - NY Times Editorial/Op-Ed 19feb03

• Carrying the Torch for the Corporate Cadre  - CropChoice 19feb03

• Small Organic Farms in Peril - SF Chronicle 18feb03

• EU Backs Poor Farmers' Seed Use  - BBC 3feb03

• Why Food Safety Will Continue Driving Growth in Demand for Organic Food - Dr Charles M Benbrook / EcoFarm 2003 24jan03

• World Wheat Production Patterns Drive Dramatic Shifts in Trade - US Wheat Assoc. / Wheat Letter 17jan03

• Monsanto Sees Opportunity in Glyphosate Resistant Volunteers, part 2  - CropChoice 15jan03

• Save The Seeds  - Washington Post 3jan03