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We at Mindfully.org consider all genetic engineering—plant, animal, or pharmaceutical—unsafe. Humans are not capable of understanding the complexity of life at any meaningful level. Corporate genetic engineering is less than sophomoric--much like reaching into a giant high-voltage electrical junction box while blind folded and standing barefoot in a puddle of salt water.          While the rest of the world destroys GMO crops in the fields, they cry out to the US to join them.          But US citizens are kept in the dark by corporately-owned media which scrubs all news of relevant details.   

• Will GMOs Feed the World?    Paul Goettlich / Mindfully.org Rev.4mar02

• Africa: Traditional Knowledge: Recognition and Protection - DR. MWANANYANDA MBIKUSITA LEWANIKA 30jul01

• 2003 MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY/STEWARDSHIP AGREEMENT (Limited Use License)

• More on Monsanto and its Products

• Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database - (1976 - 2000) USDA Economic Research Services 25aug04

2008

• Political Will, Political Won't - Paul Chefurka / Speaking Truth to Power 3sep2008
• Bayer's Liberty Link Rice: Lawyers Seek Class-Action for Biotech Rice Suit - AP 22may2008
• $US12 Million IAASTD Report: Government Rejects GM Report Due to Vested Interests - Stock & Land (Australia) 21apr2008
• Great GM Crops Myth: Major New Study Shows That Modified Soya Produces 10 Per Cent Less Food Than Its Conventional Equivalent - The Independent (UK) 20apr2008
• In Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo - New York Times 21apr2008
• California Green Party Approves Platform Position on GMOs in Agriculture - Indybay 12apr2008
• Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America - Global Research 25mar2008
• Monsanto Loses Appeal of French Ban on Modified Corn - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 20mar2008
• Entire Synthetic Genome Created: DNA of the smallest known free-living bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium, stitched together - National Geographic News 25jan2008
• Leading Experts Demand Retraction of "Wormy Corn" Paper from British Food Journal - GMWatch.org 24jan2008
• Cloned Livestock Poised To Receive FDA Clearance - Wall Street Journal 4jan2008

2007

• James Watson's Garbage Mouth: Genetic Disorder  - The Independent (UK) 20oct2007
• The Dangers of the UC Berkeley-BP Research Deal on Biofuels - Open Letter to the Editor of California Magazine 26sep2007

• Kroger to Complete Transition to Certified rBST-Free Milk by Early 2008 - Press Release / Kroger's 1aug2007

• Without U.S. Rules, Biotech Food Lacks Investors - New York Times 30jul2007

• IRRI: Feeding Billions, A Grain at a Time: As development and climate change imperil rice yields, scientists seek new Green Revolution - Wall Street Journal 28jul2007

• A Challenge to Gene Theory, a Tougher Look at Biotech - New York Times 1jul2007

• 90 Percent of Babies Receive Recommended Newborn Genetic Screening Tests - March Of Dimes 10jul2007

• Attack of the Mutant Rice - Fortune 27jun2007

• Human Genome Yields Up More Secrets - Washington Post 13jun2007

• Human Genome: New Findings Challenge Established Views - Press Release / National Institutes of Health (NIH) 13jun2007

• UC Berkeley: GMO Research Dominates BP-UC Partnership - Berkeley Daily Planet 6mar2007

• Dean Foods: Customers and Consumers Don't Want Milk from Cloned Animals - AP 23feb2007

2006

• University of California’s Biotech Benefactors - Berkeley Daily Planet 6feb2007
• F.D.A. Tentatively Declares Food From Cloned Animals to Be Safe - New York Times (plus others) 29dec2006
  • FDA Issues Draft Documents on the Safety of Animal Clones - FDA Press Release (with link to comments page) 28dec2006
• India: Biotech GM Seeds Buccaneers Destroy India's Rice Economy -  Global Research 21dec2006
• Biopharming Rules Broken - ScienceNOW Daily News 15aug2006
• Plan to Build Children's DNA Database Raises Concerns -  Wall Street Journal 7jun2006
• Europe Defends Stance on Genetically Altered Foods -  New York Times 8feb2006
• Unborn Babies Could be Harmed by GMOs: Mortality Rate for New-Born Rats Six Times Higher When Mother Was Fed on a Diet of Genetically Modified Soya - The Independent (UK) 8jan2006
  • GM Soy Affects Offspring: Results of Russian Scientists’ Studies - Regnum News Agency (Russia) 11jan2006

2005

• CSIRO: Australia Research Group Halts Work On Gene-Modified Peas -  Dow Jones Newswires 18nov2005
• The Bioweapon Is In The Post: Firms that make DNA to order could unwittingly find themselves doing business with terrorists - New Scientist 12nov2005
• Monsanto Sets Aggressive Target: 20 percent, year over year - over year - St Louis Post-Dispatch 10nov2005
• France: Ballarin's Tainted Corn: Biotech-Crop Battle Heats Up as Strains Mix With Others: Fears Hurt U.S. Farmers - Wall Street Journal 8nov2005
• Influence of Genetically Modified-SOYA on the Birth-Weight and Survival of Rat Pups: Preliminary Study I.V. Ermakova / Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) 10oct2005
• IBM to Put Genetic Data of Workers Off Limits - New York Times 10oct2005
• Genetic Engineering in Agriculture and Corporate Engineering in Public Debate: Risk, Public Relations, and Public Debate - Int. J. Occ. and Env. Health 1oct2005
• Global Seed Industry Concentration – 2005 - ETC Group Communiqué  6sep205
• Monsanto Fined For Bribing Indonesian Officials to Avoid Environmental Studies for Bt Cotton - ifrik 1sep2005
• Monsanto in Snit Over Use of Roundup, Ready - The Agribusiness Examiner 30aug2005
• Monsanto Finally Admits to Creating 181 Roundup Resistant Superweeds - From Monsanto Website 27aug2005
• Cloned Dog Created by S. Korean Researchers: Snuppy - Washington Post 3aug2005
• The Myth of Coexistence: Why Transgenic Crops Are Not Compatible With Agroecologically Based Systems of Production M. A. Altieri / Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 1aug2005
• Race and Genes: An Imperfect Science and a Less Perfect Theory -  Gene Watch 1aug2005
• Monsanto: "America's Heartland" Television Show Criticized Over Its Sponsors - Sacramento Bee 26jul2005
• Industry Aims to Strip Local Control of Food Supply - San Francisco Chronicle 20jul2005
• EU Ministers Uphold Sovereign Right to Ban GMOs - Reuters 24jun2005
• Monsanto Raises Concerns About Corn - Canadian Press (CP) 22jun2005
• Insects Develop Resistance to Engineered Crops When Single- and Double-gene Altered Plants are in Proximity - Press Release / Cornell University 17jun2005
• Growers Oppose Drugs Made of Flax - AP 15jun2005
• India: Calls to Ban GM Crops Intensify After Rats Suffer - Inter Press Service 6jun2005
• American Corn Growers Association Raises Concerns Over Shortsighted US Biotech Policy - Press Release / ACGA 3jun2003
• Gene regulation: Kissing chromosomes - Dimitris Kioussis / Nature 2jun2005
• horizontal gene transfer: University of Newcastle Research on the Transfer of DNA from GM Food Into Bacteria in the Human Gut - Soil Association (UK) 1jul2005
• Finding the Fountain of Youth: Where will UCSF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's age-bending experiments with worms lead us? - San Francisco Chronicle Magazine 29may2005
• Monsanto's $2 Billion Senior Unsecured Shelf 'A-' - Standard & Poor's 26may2005
• Professor Ignacio Chapela Wins Bitter UC Tenure Fight With University of California -  Berkeley Daily Planet 24may2005
• Monsanto: Health Fears Over Secret Study into GM Food Rats Fed GM Developed Abnormalities in Blood and Kidneys - The Independent (UK) 22may2005
• Monsanto - Argentina: Farmers Don't Have To Pay Some Seed Royalties - Dow Jones Newswires 20may2005
• Faking Babies: The First Synthetic Human - The Guardian (UK) 19may2005
• North Carolina Bills Take Local Control of Food Away: A Growing Stake in the Biotech Crops Debate  - News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) 19may2005
• Development of Human-Animal Hybrids: The Laws of Man and Beast / Technology Review 12may2005
• Pharmaceutical Flax Boon or Bust? Opinion Divided - Grand Forks Herald 9may2005
  • Pharming Hurdles: Plant-based Pharmaceuticals have Challenges to Overcome Before Products Will Hit the Market -  Grand Forks Herald 9may2005
• Martha Crouch Interview: Biology Professor Resigns Over Government Use of Plant Research -  Democracy Now 6may2005
• Now That Chimeras Exist, What if Some Turn Out Too Human? - Wall Street Journal 6may2005
• India: GEAC Rejects 3 Varieties of Monsanto Bt Cotton in Andhra Pradesh -  Financial Express (India) 4may2005
• India Bans 3 Monsanto Genetically Modified Cotton Types - AP 3may2005
• Building DNA Chips Using Tricks from Nanotech and Bioinformatics - Fortune 2may2005
• Biodefense: A Plague of Researchers -  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1may2005
• Monsanto To Confirm Earnings, Cash Flow Guidance - Dow Jones Newswires 26apr2005
• GM Industry Puts Human Gene into Rice - The Independent (UK) 24apr2005
• Chapela Files Tenure Suit Against UC Berkeley - Berkeley Daily Planet 20apr2005
• Dr. Ignacio Chapela: Professor Takes UC to Court, Citing Discrimination Chapela Says His Origin, Criticism of UC Sparked Retaliation -  Daily Cal 19apr2005
• Dr. Ignacio Chapela to Sue University of California Regents - Media Advisory 18apr2005
• German Consumer Protection Minister: "Unbelievable Sloppiness!" [. . .on the part of US Government] - Der Spiegel (Germany) 18apr2005
• Biopharming: Anheuser-Busch Drops Threat to Boycott Missouri Rice - AP 15apr2005
• Biopharming: Genetically Modified Rice Won't Be Planted Near Bootheel Fields - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 15apr2005
• Biopharming: Anheuser-Busch & Riceland Opposition to Pharm Rice Getting High-Level Political Support - Press Release / U.S. Representative Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08) 15apr2005
• Raising Risk: Field Testing of Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States - Executive Summary / TexPIRG Education Fund 14apr2005
• Unlicensed GM Rice May Be In UK Food Chain Greenpeace Finds Illegal Strain in Chinese Exports - The Guardian (UK) 14apr2005
  • Illegally Grown Genetically Engineered Rice Found in China - Kyodo News (Japan) 14apr2005
  • Illegal GM Rice Discovered in Food Chain - Consumers International (CI) 13apr2005
• Biopharming: Anheuser-Busch to Boycott State's Rice If Genetic Alterations Allowed - Kansas City Star 12apr2005
• EU Ponders Suspending Corn Gluten Imports - AP 11apr2005
• India: National Biotechnology Development Strategy Draft for public comments by May 16, 2005 - Dept. of Biotechnology / Ministry of Science & Technology / Government of India 10apr2005
• Vermont Senate Votes to Hold Makers of GMO Seeds Liable -  Vermont Press Bureau 6apr2005
• Senomyx: Food Companies Test Flavorings That Can Mimic Sugar, Salt or MSG -  New York Times 6apr2005
• The Lethal Impacts of Roundup and Predatory Stress on Six Species of North American Tadpoles -  Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 1apr2005
• Roundup Highly Lethal to Amphibians - Press Release / University of Pittsburgh 1apr2005
• Dr. Relyea Responds to Monsanto's Concerns Regarding Recent Published Study - Dr. Relyea 1apr2005
  • The Impact of Insecticides and Herbicides on the Biodiversity and Productivity of Aquatic Communities -  Ecological Applications 1apr2005
• Joint US-UK Cover-Up Alleged Over GM Maize - The Guardian (UK) 1apr2005
• Trans-Atlantic GMO Contamination Blunder Not Safe -  Edie (UK) 1apr2005
• Biopharming: Can Pharmaceutical Rice be Contained? - Delta Farm Press 31mar2005
• GM Blunder has Polluted Food for Years -  The Western Mail (UK) 30mar2005
• Stray Seeds had Antibiotic-Resistance Genes -  Nature 29mar2005
• Monsanto Inks Soybean Royalty Deal with Brazil - St. Louis Business Journal 29mar2005
• Argentine Farmers Head to Europe in Monsanto Fight - St. Louis Business Journal 28mar2005
• Biopharming: Missouri Bootheel Farmers Gain Allies in Rice War - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24mar2005
• Americans Clueless About Gene-Altered Foods: Few aware of how many genetically modified products they eat, study finds - AP 23mar2005
• Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene -  New York Times 23mar2005
• Poland to Ban Monsanto's Genetically Modified Corn - St. Louis Business Journal 22mar2005
• Poland to Ban Monsanto GMO Maize Seed - Reuters 22mar2005
• US Launches Probe into Sales of Unapproved Transgenic Corn: Syngenta Admits 150 Square Kilometres Accidentally Sown with Wrong Seeds -  Nature 22mar2005
• Final Report on World's Most Comprehensive Field Trials: Oil Seed Rape Would Harm Wildlife and Environment -  The Guardian (UK) 22mar2005
• Biggest Study of GMO Finds Impact on Birds, Bees - Reuters 21mar2005
• Transgenic Crops Take Another Knock -  Nature 21mar2005
  • Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in genetically modified herbicide-tolerant winter-sown oilseed rape -  Bohan, et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society (online) 7mar2005
• Norman Borlaug: Collapse of Economy May Prove Fatal to Food Security -  Financial Express (India) 21mar2005
  • Borlaug Advocates Gene Revolution: The father of green revolution says genetically modified crops are inevitable - Business Standard (India) 17mar2005
• Whole Foods Shareholder Resolution to be voted on April 4, 2005: Labeling - 20mar2005
• Monsanto Chalks Up Crop of Global Biotech Victories - AP 19mar2005
• Recombinant Virus Bank for Gene Delivery - Letter / Science 18mar05
• Iraq: Plowing for Profits U.S.: Agribusiness Eyes Iraq’s Fledgling Markets -  In These Times 15mar2005
• The Uncle Tom Award - Freezerbox 14mar2005
• Roundup Doesn't Poison Only Weeds -  Le Monde (France) 12mar2005
• Iran Planning 200,000 hectares of GM Rice: FAO Funding $6 Mln Worth of Projects in Iran - IranMania.com 12mar2005
• Vermont Plows Ahead on GE Seed Liability Law -  Vermont Guardian 11mar2005
• List of Genetically Engineered Tree Species and Transgenic Hybrids - Compiled by Dr. Neil Carman / Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Committee 11mar2005
• Neem Patent Rights Revoked by European Patent Office - Financial Express (India) 10mar2005
• Transgenic Poplars Could Make China a Big Player in Lumber: But some experts worry about effects on nature - Christian Science Monitor 10mar2005
• Seeds of Destruction: The Geopolitics of GM Food - Current Concerns (Zurich) 6mar2005
• Land Mine Detection: Gene-Altered Plant Blushes When Roots Sense Explosives -  National Geographic 1mar2005
• India: No Pesticides, No Bt Cotton, No Pests ! - Devinder Sharma (Delhi, India) 1mar2005
• GE-Free Sonoma Proponents Release Report On Economic Costs of Bio-Contamination: County Supervisors place measure on November 8, 2005 ballot - GE-Free Sonoma Press Release 1mar05
• StarLink Corn Sent to Guatemala by World Food Program - Pharm Aid: Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala -  Village Voice 28feb2005
• Roundup and placental cells: Differential effects of glyphosate and Roundup on human placental cells and aromatase -  Environmental Health Perspectives 24feb2005
• Tillamook Bans Monsanto Growth Hormone - AP 19feb2005
• Tillamook, Milk and GMO Hormones: Monsanto's Hidden Hand Encourages Protest-  KGW (Portland, OR) 18feb2005
• Cornell: Open and Shut Case - Ithaca Journal 18feb2005
• Emergent Genetics Purchase: Emergent 'Raises The Bar,' Aids Growth -  Dow Jones Newswires 17feb2005

• Your Food Transformed: GMOs - Listen to Dr. Ignacio Chapela on KPOO 89.5 FM San Francisco, CA 17feb2005

• New Mexico: Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act, Senate Bill 906 in New Mexico - Press Release / GE Food Committee, Rio Grande Chapter, Sierra Club 15feb2005

  • The Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act - SB 906 / State of New Mexico 17feb2005

• Indian Seed Act And Patent Act: Sowing The Seeds Of Dictatorship - Vandana Shiva / Znet 14feb2005

• Suicide Seeds — Bombshell in Bangkok Canadian-Led Coup to Allow Terminator Technology Narrowly Squelched at UN Meeting - ETC Group 11feb05

• Roundup Ready Alfalfa On The Way  - Capital Press Agriculture Weekly 11feb05

• Hawaii: What's Wrong with Crop Biotechnology in Hawaii -   kNOwGMOs 10feb05

• Canada: Ban Endures on Terminator Seeds -  Inter Press Service (IPS) 11feb05
• Canada Backs Terminator Seeds -  The Guardian (UK) 9feb05
• First Step Toward Public Disclosure of Test Sites of Biopharmaceutical Crops - Naturalwire 9feb2005
• Better Trees from GM Technology? -  UPI 7feb2005
• Monsanto: Biotech Shareholders Call for Reporting Impacts of Biotech Products - Organic Food Quality and Health Research Newsletter Feb/Mar 1feb2005
• Monsanto: GM Grass Genes Travel Much Further Than Expected - Gene Watch  1feb2005
• DNA Database Proposition Passes Amidst Protest - Gene Watch 1feb2005

• Iraq: Order 81 -  The Ecologist 1feb05

• Genetically Modified Trees in Chile: A New Forest Conflict - Lorena Ojeda D. / Mapuexpress (Chile) 1feb2005

• Monsanto Sues Farmer Customers Over Piracy Issues: It's efforts to protect its technology often turn farmer against farmer -  Des Moines Register 30jan05

• Reasons Why Biotech Crops Flourish in Spite of Being a Failure - Paul Goettlich / Mindfully.org 30jan05

• World Social Forum Protests Transgenic Foods - Agence France Presse 28jan2005

• The Laws of Nature a letter by Ignacio Chapela 27jan05

• Monsanto Bribery Charges in Indonesia by USDoJ and USSEC - Third World Network Malaysia 27jan05

• Monsanto Co. to Pay $1 Billion For Produce-Seed Firm Seminis  - Wall Street Journal 25jan05

• Monsanto in $1.4bn Deal with Seminis -  Financial Times (UK) 24jan05

• Hungary Bans Monsanto MON 810 GMO Maize Seeds - Reuters 19jan05

• Ignacio Chapela: Enemy of the State -  Guardian Unlimited (UK) 19jan05

• Monsanto $1.5 Million Fines for Genetic Engineering Bribe Illustrates Risks of GE Strategy -  Social Funds 19jan05

• Monsanto Charged With Using US Patent Laws to Control Staple Crop Seeds - Agribusiness Examiner 19jan05

• Monsanto: Brazilian Court Suspends Royalty Payments to Monsanto - St. Louis Business Journal 13jan2005

• Monsanto: Prosecuting American Farmers: Monsanto's Investigations, Coerced Settlements & Lawsuits  - Center for Food Safety 12jan05

• Monsanto: Monsanto Company Charged with Bribing Indonesian Government Official: Pays $1 Million Penalty - US Department of Justice 6jan2005

• India: New Amendments to Patents Act, 1970 to Affect Farm Sector - Financial Express (India) 3jan05

• rBGH and FOX TV: Journalists Challenge License of Fox TV in Tampa on Evidence of False and Distorted News Reports - Press Release / Akre and Wilson 3jan2005

• Trespass - Claire Hope Cummings / World Watch  1jan05

Selected files from the archive:

• The Three Mile Island of Biotech?  - The Nation 30dec02

• India: Bt Cotton Dashes Hopes of Farmers  - The Hindu 29dec02

• Percy Schmeiser: Agriculture, Biotech Mix Uncomfortably  - Tom Abate / SF Chronicle 23dec02

• Product of Nature Doctrine: Opposing Patents on Genes, Proteins Possible through Product of Nature Doctrine  - UNC News Service  23dec02

• Zambia: GMOs a Health Hazard  - Times of Zambia 6dec02

• Zambia: US Calls Food Aid Refusal by Zambia a Crime Against Humanity - Reuters 5dec02

• Biotech Boom Linked to Development Dollars -  IPS 3dec03

• Percy Schmeiser takes on Monsanto & Genetic Engineering  - Paul Goettlich /  Socialist Action Dec02

• Bt Cotton in Indonesia has Contaminated Natural Cotton - Jakarta Post (Indonesia) 21nov02

• Doctors want GM Crop Ban - BBC News 20nov02

  • Submission of the British Medical Association to Scottish Parliament On The Impact Of GM Crop Trials 20nov02

• $400 Million Annual Problem: Researchers place Dollar Value on GM Contamination  -  The Western Producer 14nov02

• Africa: Zoellick Letter to House and Senate Reveals USA Trade Designs on Africa - AFRICA FAITH & JUSTICE NETWORK 4nov02

• Text of  Dr. Ignacio Chapela Speaking at  Biotech: Farmers' Rights, and the University-Industrial Partnership  14oct02

• A New Harvest: Farm-aceutical Corn. . . - CBS News 8oct02

• Better Dead than GM Fed: A critique of the FAO-CGIAR trusteeship system - SEEDLING Oct02

• A Different Perspective on GM Food - David Schubert / Nature Biotechnology Oct02

• Percy Schmeiser takes Case to Top Court MURRAY LYONS / The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) 7sep02

  • Percy Schmeiser: Saskatchewan farmer violated patent, court rules  - Globe & Mail 6sep02

  • Percy Schmeiser: Judges toss out Schmeiser Appeal  - The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) 6sep02

  • Percy Schmeiser: Saskatchewan farmer seeks leave to appeal Monsanto ruling to Supreme Court Canadian Press 6sep02

• Bt Cotton Fails Miserably in Maharashtra (India) - AgBioIndia 6sep02

• Africa Unites Against GM to Opt for Self-sufficiency  - ISIS 5sep02

• Food Luddites Let Africa Starve - NGIN 2sep02

• EU Rejects U.S. Plea to Tell Africa Modified Corn Is Safe - Wall Street Journal  23aug02

• Monsanto Scales Down Hopes on GM Foods  -  Financial Times 19aug02

• Karnataka Bans Monsanto's Bt Cotton Seeds  - AgBioIndia 11aug02

• Zimbabwe Ends Altered-Corn Dispute: Mugabe, Relief Agencies Agree to Grain Swap, Freeing Up Tons in Food Aid  - Washington Post 10aug02

• Study: Super Crops Lead to Super Weeds -  Globe and Mail 8aug02

• Zimbabwe Continues to Block Gene-Altered Corn - Washington Post 3aug02

• Animal Biotechnology: Science Based Concerns - National Research Council Aug02

• Dear Africa "Eat GMO Food Or STARVE!" 14 Million Facing Starvation Unless Governments Accept GMO Food Aid  -  Reuters 28jul02

• The Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology: Why Are Transgenic Crops Incompatible With Sustainable Agriculture In The Third World? Miguel A. Altieri 22aug02

• GE genes found in the maize of Oaxaca, Mexico: Dr. Ignacio Chapela Interviewed by Michael Olson - SATURDAY FOOD CHAIN Radio Show 9feb02

Action:

• Nighttime Gardening: A guide for the shy gardener - BAN 2feb00

More:

• Suggested Genetic Engineering Reading List   

• Statement of the Catholic Bishops of South Africa 14nov01  

• Propaganda being fed to young minds - Industry hype being pumped directly into your child's mind at school.  

• US Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology/ Responsible Agencies - Overview (At USDA/APHIS website)

Safe Info for Children:

• For Kids! Tiki's Guide to Genetic Engineering - A more logical precautionary, non-industry view.

Facts:

• Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith - Exposing industry and government lies about the safety of the genetically engineered foods you're eating. This book exposes the entire GMO industry for what it is—profit at the expense of our environment, society, and health. All this so that a very few may benefit financially. 
          Read a review of this wonderful book--> Seeds Of Deception: Book Review by Claire Robinson / GM Weekly Watch (UK) 5dec03

• Biopharmaceutical Plant Field Trials in the U.S.: 1991 to June 2002
  A Different Perspective on GM Food - David Schubert / Nature Biotechnology Oct02

• Unraveling the DNA Myth  - Barry Commoner / Harper's Magazine Feb02

• Why Biotechnology Will Not Feed the World - Center For Food Safety undated

• GM Crops Have Failed - Lower yields; Bt resistance; More pesticides; Reduced profits - ISIS 15dec01

• Could anyone on earth reasonably conclude that genetically engineered organisms are safe?

• Genetic Modification: an Overview for Non-Scientists New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Modification 27jul01

• FAO Says GM Crops NOT Answer to Hunger -  Reuters 11may01

• Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health? -  Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D. Jun01

• The Revolving Door - US Gov. Workers & Univ. Researchers Go Biotech.. . and Back Again. A Question of Ethics

• 'Publish or Perish,' the rule of academia, has become 'Patent and Profit' - Paul Berg, Stanford

• GM crops will "feed the world"  - Myth of Biotech Industry and US Government - GIN 7may01

• Crisis Position  - -Richard Strohman, Ph.D Prof. Emeritus, Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

• Dream of Utopias  - Ignacio Chapela at Apocalypse Now? workshop UC Berkeley 4-5 May 2001.

• Update on PBS/Frontline Poll - 24745 responded / 66% said we should not grow GM crops 21may01

• Monoculture by Kirk Lumpkin from his book of poetry Co-Hearing, Zygma Multimedia Research, Oakland CA 1983.

• Golden Rice and Vitamin A Deficiency  - Earth Focus Spring 2001  

• Legislation

• Christian Aid International Policy Briefing - Jan00

• Alterations in Clinically Important Phytoestrogens in Genetically Modified, Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans
                 Lappé & Bailey / Journal of Medicinal Food 1jul99

• 1st Patent on Life: Patent application relating to his invention of a human-made, genetically engineered bacterium capable of breaking down crude oil  - Diamond v. Chakrabarty 16jun80 

Almost Fiction: 

• Genetic Savings & Clone: As Sick as it is....This is NOT a Joke! 

• Monsanto Presents: The Porken - EarthFirst! May/Jun01 

• McDough Announces Giant Merger - GE Plastic Tree News Summer00 

• $ 4 Billion Reward Offered for Conviction of Convert Agents Undermining the Humanitarian Work of Monsanto.

• Fight Hunger, Not Biotechnology -  Corporate Hype by the Washington Legal Foundation

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