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Biotech crops cause big jump in pesticide use: report

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued Tuesday by health and environmental protection groups. The groups said research showed that herbicide use grew by 383 million pounds from 1996 to 2008, with 46 percent of the total increase occurring in 2007 and 2008. The report was released by nonprofits The Organic Center (TOC), the Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS). The groups said that while herbicide ... Read Full Story

PDF Ebook Regulating Risk in a Global Economy: Law, Politics and the Struggle to Govern Genetically Modified Foods

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In 1992, the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first genetically engineered food – Calgene’s Flavr Savr Tomato – for sale and marketing in the United States. Encouraged by a favorable US regulatory system and the lack of serious domestic political challenge, US scientists have subsequently created, farmers have grown, and companies have marketed a wide range of genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. By the end of the 1990s, in “the most rapid adoption of a new technology in the history of agriculture,” some sixty percent of processed foods available in US groceries were derived from genetically modified organisms ... Read Full Story

CORRECTED: TIMELINE: History of Monsanto Co

In 1982 entry, corrects reference to Monsanto and Times Beach controversy (Reuters) - Over its 108-year history, Monsanto Co, the world's largest seed company, has evolved from primarily an industrial chemical concern into a pure agricultural products company. Following is a timeline of the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's history. * 1901 - Original Monsanto founded as a maker of saccharine by John F. Queeny and named after his wife, Olga Monsanto Queeny. * 1920s and 1930s - Manufacturers sulfuric acid and other chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are later implicated in reproductive, developmental and immune system disorders. * 1940s - Manufactures plastics and ... Read Full Story

World must use GM crops, says UK science academy

LONDON (Reuters) - The world needs genetically modified crops both to increase food yields and minimize the environmental impact of farming, Britain's top science academy said on Wednesday. The Royal Society said in a report the world faced a "grand challenge" to feed another 2.3 billion people by 2050 and at the same time limit the environmental impact of the farm sector. The world will have to increase food output by 70 percent and invest $83 billion annually in developing countries by mid-century, the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization said earlier this month. "The problem is such an acute one, doing that sustainably without ... Read Full Story

The dangers of Genetically Modified Food

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‘A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.’ – Ted Turner to Audubon Magazine, 1996 In an April 18th 2009 article on the development of GM-Food for the African continent, ‘Strange Fruit: Could genetically modified foods offer a solution to the world’s food crisis? the author mentions that the Rockefeller Foundation has recently set out to fund the process of ‘biofortified rice’ for third world nations, invented by a Swiss scientist named Ingo Potrykus. In 2000 a Swiss scientist named Ingo Potrykus modified rice, adding a bacterial gene and two genes from the daffodil, to add ... Read Full Story
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Getting to Know Genetically Modified Food
The first group of genetically modified plant life was created in 1983, and a variety of genetically modified crops have since been fashioned with traits such as resistance to insects, herbicides and viruses...Contributor: Jacob AdlonPublished: Nov 22, 2009  
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Andrew Kimbrell: New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution...
There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this. Genetically modified foods do nothing for the "eating public". They ...  
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Attitudes Toward Genetically Modified Foods are Changing, According to World...
Soybeans are one of the world's most genetically modified crops. Photo credit: Clearly Ambiguous via Flickr Food security is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the global food discussion, and for good reason -- it's a big challenge that's only going to continue to grow, and there's even a dedicated conference for it next week. As the understanding of the problem grows, attitudes toward genetically modifie...Read the full story on...  
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Biotech Soybeans Good Source of Omega-3
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Oil from genetically modified soybeans boosts levels of an important omega-3 fatty acid in the body, which may reduce the risk of heart attacks, U.S. researchers say.  
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African cardinal denounces genetically-modified seeds, charges world soccer...
African cardinal denounces genetically-modified seeds, charges world soccer …Catholic Culture… international governing body) is “placing pressures on the South African government to decriminalize prostitution” as the 2010 World Cup approaches. …Africa needs water, not genetically-modified foodSpero News all 4 news articles »  
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Asia Prelates Give OK to Genetically Modified Rice
Zenit.org ).- Filipino bishops are expressing support for genetically modified organisms, as long as the new strains do not pose a threat to the environment.The episcopal conference's bioethics office...  
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GOLDING'S TAKE: Genetically Modified GM
General Motors continues to defy the laws of natural selection. It is supposed to be the case that an organism that cannot hold out against its rivals and predators, eventually succumbs. GM has not succumbed, and shows no sign of doing so.  
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