Genetic Engineering 
Jul-Dec 2002

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If you plan to read only one thing on this website, we strongly suggest reading Heartbreak in the Heartland, about Percy Schmeiser, the farmer that Monsanto sued, provided here in several languages:

  • English - Heartbreak in the Heartland: The True Cost of Genetically Engineered Crops*

  • Spanish - La Congoja en el Campo: El costo verdadero en los transgénicos* 

  • French ( Québec) - Coeur brisé dans le terroir: Le véritable coût des cultures génétiquement modifiées*

  • Chinese         Word document (Chinese font required)

  • Hindi         Word document (Hindi font required | Download here)
                      Hindi dub CD of Heartbreak is available - contact us for details 

  • Bulgarian - Скръб в родината

  • Japanese - (Japanese font required) 

  • German - Rapsfarmer-David gegen Biotech-Goliath: Die wahren Kosten von gentechnisch verändertem Saatgut

  • Russian -  (PDF file)  Давид - рапсовый фермер против Голиафа

  • Coming Soon..... Zulu !

  • What Makes Percy Schmeiser So Persistent? Interview by Paul Goettlich 27may04

*  with link to free online video 

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.  :-)

•   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:

•   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

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

 

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

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