Genetic Engineering
Jul-Dec 2001

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Mindfully.org note: We 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.          It was suggested to one over-worked environmentalist that she should "really, just get a good hobby and forget about all this trouble, and that it's no good for ones health to think about such awful news constantly."          So..... here's a suggestion for a great hobby to take your mind off of this troubled world. Let's all do some nighttime gardening, and put on a happy face. It's high time we did just that, don't you think. So be creative, and have fun at the same time.  :-)

• 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

• Are Genetically Altered Foods The Answer to World Hunger? - John Robbins / Earth Island Journal  22dec01

• Bt Corn Toxin Pollutes Québec's  St. Laurence River  - Le Devoir (Québec) 18dec01

  • Release and Potential Impacts of Biological Toxins Bt Genetically-Modified Corn Crops and Biopesticide Application - Gagné, et al Poster Communication Dec01

• More Grain Elevators Requiring GMO Segregation - American Corn Growers Association 18dec01

• GMO Soy Planting In Brazil Said To Be Spreading North  - Dow Jones 18dec01

• GM Crops Have Failed - Lim Li Ching & Jonathan Matthews / ISIS 15dec01

• Monsanto's Attempt to Patent Soybeans Causes Alarm in China  - AP 12dec01

• High Court Says Seeds Can Be Patented - Wall Street Journal 11dec01

• Farm Advantage v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International  - Decided by Supreme Court of the United States 10dec01

• Ecotage! August Action report from Davao EF! - BAN 10dec01

• Cloning of Human Feels Like Old Horror Film Come True -  SF Chronicle 9dec01

• Frankenbugs in the Wings -  Wired 7dec01

• Volunteer GM canola a problem: farmer  - Western Producer 6dec01

• Mexican Congress to Fox: "Ban GM Corn"- TheNewsMexico.com - 6dec01

• Who Benefits from Biotechnology? -  Michael Duffy, Iowa State University/ Presented at American Seed Trade Association Dec 5 -7, 2001, Chicago, IL

• Farmers Close Down Monsanto Office! KMP Peasant Movement of the Philippines News Release 4dec01

• Monsanto Bids to Put GM Food Back on Shelves in UK - Sunday Herald (UK) 2dec01

• Language And Persuasion In Biotechnology Communication With The Public  - AgBioForum, 4(2), 93-97 2001

• rBGH, rbST - Estimated Profit Impact of recombinant bovine somatotropin on New York dairy farms for the years 1994 through 1997  - AgBioForum 2001

• Chapela - Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico - Nature 29nov01

• The Beginning of the End for Genetically Engineered Food?  -  Tidepool 29nov01

• New Biotech Propaganda Targets Children -  Peace & Freedom Fall01

• Bt and the Monarch Butterfly - Cautionary Tale - Nucleus Fall01

• Statement of the Catholic Bishops of South Africa 14nov01

• US Foodborne Illnesses Up Two to Ten Fold - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / ISIS Report 3 Nov01

• When Does It Pay To Plant Bt Corn? Farm-Level Economic Impacts of Bt Corn, 1996-2001  -  Charles M. Benbrook Nov01

• GMO Liability Threats for Farmers -  Farmers' Legal Action Group (FLAG) Nov01

• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - FAO Nov01

  • Participants of the Treaty

• Anti-GE Maori occupy Erma office  - New Zealand Herald 31oct01

• No end in sight for EU block on GM foods -  Reuters 29oct01

• 'Most chilling threat of the 21st century' -  Ottawa Citizen 27oct01

• Three Different Views of US/China Soybean Trade 25oct01

• 50% of US Grain Handlers Plan to Segregate GE & Non-GE Grains -  Feedstuffs 23oct01

• Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus anthracis are related  - Prof. Joe Cummins / ISIS Report 23oct01

• Cotton Crop to be Destroyed  - Times of India 19oct01

• Australian Insurers Wary of GM Crops  - Farmers Weekly Interactive 18nov01

• Proposed GM lawsuit may stir major waves  - Western Producer 18oct01

• New Zealand Planning 2-Year Freeze on GE Field Trials  - New Zealand Herald 18oct01

• Mexican Maize Contaminated with Engineered Genes  - ENS 18oct01

• Biological Apocalypse Averted - John Robbins / The Food Revolution / Earth Island Journal Winter01-02

• EPA Renews Monsanto's Insect-Protected Corn Tech - Dow Jones Newswires 16oct01

• EPA To Reregister Syngenta Bt Corn - Dow Jones Newswires 16oct01

• Human Genes: How Many? More than 70,000. . .Maybe - The Scientist 15[20]:1, 15oct01

• AMA promotes benefits of "genetically improved" foods  - British Medical Journal 13oct01

• Illicit GM cotton sparks corporate fury  - Nature 11oct01

• Amniotic fluid could heal newborn babies  - New Scientist 11oct01

• Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) to offer another non-GMO premium -  FWN Financial 10oct01

• Percy Schmeiser speaking at Biotech Bullies Threaten Farmer and Consumer Rights. University of Texas at Austin 10oct01  
  (View streaming video of this presentation by Percy by following the links on the page)

• Demand Surges for Non-GMO Animal Feed in Europe  - Reuters 9oct01

• Science & Ethics in a New Key - Mae-Wan Ho / ISIS 8oct01

• Couple asks permission to select an embryo to save son's life  - British Medical Journal v.323, i.7316 6oct01

• US Trade Representative demands China drop soybean trade barrier  - Reuters 4oct01

• Bubonic Plague Sequenced  - Wall Street Journal 4oct01

• GM & Corporate Serfdom Official  - Nick Papadimitriou / ISIS Report 4oct01

• First Humanized Antibody using Chicken Cells  -  PRNewswire 3oct01

• Gene That Renders Mice Resistant To Potent Toxin Made By Anthrax Discovered  -  Press Release 2oct01

• House panel grapples with value of ag biotech research  - Food Chemical News v.43, i.33 1oct01

• Create Babies to Save Other Babies?  -  Reuters 1oct01

• Genetic Science Applied to Computers  - AP 1oct01

• EPA Approves Biotech Cotton  - AP 1oct01

• Ottawa is still pumping tax dollars into GM foods  - Canadian Business 1oct01

• Do GM Crops Mean Less Pesticides?  - Charles Benbrook / Pesticide Outlook Oct01

• The StarLink Case: Issues for the Future - Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology Oct01

• Blue Revolution Spawns FrankenFish  - Fisherman's Voice Oct01

• Genetic Rescue of an Endangered Mammal  - Nature Biotechnology  Oct01

• Local activists under government and corporate surveillance  - Asheville Global Report 27sep01

• Transgenic Corn Found Growing in Mexico by Dr. Chapela  - Nature Vol. 27sep01

• Boy's DNA implanted in rabbit eggs  -  Daily Telegraph UK 27sep01

• India plans to regulate GM farm imports - PlanetArk.org 27sep01

• Now for GM weapons: It's time to get Tough with the Biotech firms over Germ Warfare  - Jeremy Rifkin / The Guardian 27sep01

• Biotech advance heralded: Ames firm says technique speeds crop engineering  - Des Moines Register 26sep01

• Patenting GMOs - a difficult question of balance  - Reuters 24sep01

• Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells  - ISIS 24sep01

• Note of Caution On GM Food - Editorial / The Nation (Nairobi) 24sep01

• Pharma Buys a Conscience  - American Prospect 24sep01

• Leak Reveals Britain's health files 'could be privatised'  - Observer UK 23sep01

• Common Gene Therapy Vector Causes Cancer as well as Toxic Shock  - ISIS 20sep01

• Gene-modified Wheat Poses Quandary for Farmers  - Reuters 18sep01

• Taco Bell Files Lawsuit Against Aventis Cropscience and Others  - AP 18sep01

• Indonesian Govt To Extend Permit For GMO Cotton Planting  - Dow Jones Newswires 18sep01

• Owning Biotech  - Chemical & Engineering News v.79, n.38, 17sep01

• Interview with Tewolde Egziabher -  Michael Friedrich in 208 recipes against hunger / Greenpeace

• And Now: Frankenpigs  -  Jim Hightower / The Progressive Populist 15sep01

• Angry Indonesian Farmer Burnt Bollgard Cotton -  A-Info News Service 14sep01

• Scientists fear new threat to butterflies from Bt corn  - Reuters 14sep01

• Bt - Effects of exposure to event 176 Bacillus thuringiensis corn pollen on monarch and black swallowtail caterpillars under field conditions  -  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 14sep01

• New Research Fuels Debate Over Genetic Food Altering  - NY Times 9sep01

• Zimbabwe Bans Genetically Modified Foods  -  Financial Gazette (Zimbabwe) 9sep01

• Contraceptive Corn set to stop man spreading his seed  - Observer 9sep01

• Informal meeting - Agriculture Council - Alden-Biesen : 16-18 September 2001 - 9sep01

• Under Siege in the Ivory Tower  - Globe and Mail 8sep01

• India to tighten rules on human embryonic Stem Cells Research  - British Medical Journal 8sep01

• Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force Stephen R. Palumbi / Science 7sep01

• Virus Leaped from Animals: Genetic study links 1918, '97 flu outbreaks  - SF Chronicle 7sep01

• A Virus in the family?  - Science 7sep01

• Future Uses of Biotechnology   -  (executive summary ) Pew Initiative on Biotechnology 7sep01

• Warning on Tumors  - Newsday 4sep01

• StarLink Corn - EPA & Aventis CropScience Knew of StarLink 6 Months Earlier  - NY Times 4sep01

• Asia's sensitivity over GMO worries US soy trade  - Reuters 4sep01

• Bayer Plans to Acquire CropScience Unit From Aventis  - Wall Street Journal 3sep01

• American Bakers Association Biotechnology Position Statement  - 1sep01

• Pate, bonhomie, and a slap at engineered food  -  Christian Science Monitor 31aug01

• Petty Whims of Technology's Wealth: Squandering Our Technological Future - Jim Clark / NY Times 31aug01

• Insects May Need Refuges from Biotechnology -  ENS 30aug01

• Some Stem Cell Lines May Be Unusable  (with list of companies and bios) - AP 29aug01

• 800 Philippine Protesters Uproot Transgenic Corn  - ENS 29aug01

• Europe’s New Rules Could Sink All GMOs - Mae-Wan Ho & Angela Ryan ISIS 28aug01

• Patently Wrong on Plant Resources Devinder Sharma / Hindi Daily 27aug01

• Genetically Modified Cornfield Destroyed In France: Again! - AP 26aug01

• Stem Cell Research Faces FDA Hurdle With Mouse Cell Base  - Washington Post 24aug01

• Stem Cells face Xenotransplantation Glitch -  New Scientist 24aug01

• Human Stem Cells Grown with Mouse Cells May Get FDA's OK  -  AP 24aug01

• Sri Lanka: Lobbying Puts Ban on GE Food at Risk  - IPS/IMS 24aug01

• Ottawa Changes Mind on GM Food Report by Royal Canadian Society - Toronto Star 23aug01

• Human DNA in Cow Egg  -  Edmonton Journal 22aug01

• Confederation Paysanne farm union destroys maize at Monsanto French site Reuters 22aug01

• Pioneer v. J.E.M AgSupply may sprout rude awakening  - CropChoice opinion 20aug01

• Courts Force Brazil Govt To Retreat On Monsanto GMO Soy  - Dow Jones Newswires 17aug01

• Greenpeace Will Ask For Review Of Monsanto's GMO Soy  - Dow Jones Newswires 17aug01

• Monsanto Roundup-Ready Soybeans under fire  -  St. Louis Business Journal 17aug01

• Trouble in paradise? 'Natural' pest control requires careful planning  - AAAS Press Release 16aug01

• Monsanto: Regulators Don't Oppose Unknown DNA In GMO Soy  - Dow Jones Newswires 16aug01

• Soybean Prices Slide On Crop-Safety Fears  - Dow Jones Newswires 16aug01

• RR bean scare?  -  Agriculture Online 16aug01

• Mystery DNA Is Discovered in Soybeans by Scientists  - New York Times 16aug01

• Mystery gene in soybeans heats GMO debate  - Reuters 16aug01

• Philippine House Approves Prison Term for GMO Labeling Violators  - ENS 15aug01

• Refreshing News GE Crops Trashed in France  - Reuters 15aug01

• Monsanto Releases Bacterium Genome Sequence  - Dow Jones Newswires 14aug01

• Bush Told: Stop Threatening to Overturn Other Nations' Food Safety Laws  - FOE Press Release 14aug01

• GMOs may Backfire on Companies  - Leader-Post (Regina)/CP 14aug01

• Open Letter to New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) 13aug01

• Scientists' 'publish or perish' credo now 'patent and profit'; 'Recombinant U.' phenomenon alters academic culture  -  SF Chronicle 13aug01

• Sealed Lips Keeps Monsanto in Control  -  Farm and Food File Farm News 13jul01

• Got Pus?: Bovine Growth Hormone, Genetic Engineering & the New World Order - Mitchel Cohen Candidate for Mayor of NYC, Green Party 13aug01

• Bush's Stem Cells Decision: A Primer Washington Post 10aug01

• Comment on proposals by Professor Severino Antinori and his colleagues and Brigitte Boisselier of Clonaid to clone humans - Roslin Institute 9aug01

• Canola Spread Far and Near by Tornado: Concerns raised over unregulated spread of GM crops  - CBC 8aug01

• Japan Health Ministry Study OKs Monsanto GMO Potato-Kyodo Dow Jones Newswires 8aug01

• US Sen Bond Says Tough Issues With Malaysia To Be Tackled - AP 8aug01

• Governors hear both sides on genetically modified foods  - Providence Journal 7aug01

• GMO Food Labeling Law Filed in Philippines  - Philippine Daily Inquirer 5aug0

• Environmental Influences on Gene Silencing  - ISB News Report 1aug01

• Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (Cloning) Efficiency - Gene Expression and Development, Roslin Institute Aug01

• August - December is in Aug-Dec 2001

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

• Indiana Lawmaking Duo Fight Monsanto for Farmers Rights  - Reuters 30jul01

• Biotech and the Watchdog Role of Universities  - Fred L. Bookstein, Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan / Washington Post 30jul01

• And now, Ethics For Sale? Bioethicists and big bucks. Problem city?  - US News 30jul01

• Pests Attack GE Cotton Jakarta Post (Indonesia) 29jun01

• StarLink Corn Banned by EPA for Health Reasons  - AP 28jul01

• StarLink Corn Final Scientific Advisory Panel Report -  Report No. 2001-09 28jul01

• Farmers to demand Ottawa halt genetically modified wheat farms  - CP 28jul01

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

• Biotech defensive over pact: Germ Warfare  -  SF Chronicle 27jul01

• Insecticides Still Used Despite Biotech  - UPI 25jul01

• Right to Know About Genetically Modified Food  - David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection 25jul01

• Brazil Govt To OK Sale Of Monsanto GMO Soybeans  -  Dow Jones Newswires 25jul01

• Scientists Made Virus More Lethal than HIV  -  The Independent (London) 24jul01

• EPA says biotech corn appears safe for monarch butterflies  -  AP 24jul01

• 70 Protest Genetic Engineering of Trees  - Columbian 23jul01

• Monsanto GM  Spuds Cleared in spite of  'extremely poor' field trials  - Toronto Star July 23, 2001 [shortened]

• Crop Decontaminators Hard at Work in UK  - GE MEDIA 23jul01

• EU Discusses Biotech Food Labeling  - AP 23jul01

• Monkey Virus Present in More Recent Polio Vaccine  - SF Chronicle 22jul01

• Who can you trust? There's a too-cozy relationship between food regulators and producers  - Montreal Gazette 20jul01

• Monsanto Sues More Farmers  - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 20jul01

• New Monsanto and GMO Propaganda: Seeds of Irreversible Change  -  Le Monde diplomatique Jul01

• Arsonists Damage Research Facility  -   Scientist 23jul01

• Monsanto's Chief Indulges in a Little Wishful Thinking  -  Financial Times (London) 20jul01

• Controversial GM crop is cut down in Wivenhoe  - Evening Gazette (UK) 20jul01

• Monsanto Tangles with more Canadian Farmers on Licensing  - Canadian Press 19jul01

• GM AIDS Virus More Deadly  -  Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / ISIS 19jul01

• 6 UK Government Farm Scale GMO Trials Destroyed or Substantially Damaged  - Genetic Engineering Network 18jul01

• P&G Recalls Cans of Pringles in Japan That Contain Bio-Engineered Potato  - Wall Street Journal 18jul01

• Build a Better Banana: Less Use of Pesticides  -  SF Chronicle 18jul01

• Crisis and Opportunity in North American Agriculture  - John Ikerd, University of Missouri / CropChoice News 17jul01

• Major Report Released on Global Threat of Genetically Engineered Trees  - Native Forest Network Press Release 17jul01

• American Corn Growers Assoc. Study Finds 6% Less GMO Corn in 2001  - ACGA Press Release 16jul01

• Roger Pedersen: Stem-Cell Researcher Plans Move to U.K: Unfriendly Political Climate in U.S. -  Wall Street Journal 16jul01

• 'Playing God' with human cloning  -  SF Chronicle 13jul01

• Technology Won't Feed World's Hungry  - Anuradha Mittal / The Progressive 12jul01

• Firm tries to create cloned human embryos Goal is to produce stem cells for use in medical research   - Washington Post 12jul01

• China Announces Seawater Irrigation of GM Crops  ''Pollen Tube Method.''  - PlanetRice 11jul01

• Number of Human Genes Disputed  - BBC 7jul01

• This is the Path to Disaster   - Guardian UK 7jul01

• Biotech crop plantings soar despite controversy  -  AP 7jul01

• BIO 2001 Low Protestor Turn Out And Even Less Communication Between The Two Sides  - David Bragi / SF Chronicle 9jul01

• Agbiotech Aggression  -  BioDemocracy News #34 / Organic Consumers Association Jul01

• Genetic Engineering Super-viruses  - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho / ISIS n.9/10 Jul01

• Epigenetic Instability in ES Cells and Cloned Mice  -  Science v.293 6jul01

• Bayer AG Emerges As Front-Runner For Aventis Unit  -  Wall Street Journal 6jul01

• Thai FDA decides GM food must be labelled  -  Bangkok Post 4jul01

• StarLink Reaches White Corn Chips  - Washington Post 4jul01

• Bt - Science Paper Issues Biotech Caution  -  Farm Progress 3jul01

• Monsanto France weighs action after GM crop attack  - Reuters 3jul01

• Exploiting the Poor and Hungry  - Devinder Sharma 2jul01

• GM draft may be tightened  - Codex  - Financial Times 2jul01

• The GM crop gamble could mean famine, not feast  -  Sunday Times UK 1jul01

• Biotech Soybeans Plant Seed of Risky Revolution Even Dan Glickman Regrets His Past in Promoting Biotech -  LA Times 1jul01

• ELF Claims Responsibility for Simultaneous Actions in 2 States $3 M Combined Damages  - News Advisory 1jun01

• US Farmers Unaware of Extent of GM Trials, Claims US PIRG Report  - BINAS Jul01

• Stop Release of GM Insects!  -  ISIS News Jul01

• Epigenetic Instability in ES Cells and Cloned Mice  - (abstract)  Science Jul01 

• GM Is Kidstuff  - ISIS News Jul01

• Brave New Nature: Spinning Science into Gold -  Sierra magazine Jul/Aug 1jul01

• Engineering Plants to Manufacture Pharmaceuticals & Industrial Enzymes Biohazards: The Next Generation? - Brian Tokar / Synthesis/Regeneration Summer 2001