New Studies on GE Corn

Current threads on GE Corn

1. A study sponsored by the Austrian Ministries for Agriculture and Health found that mice fed a genetically engineered corn developed by Monsanto Company produced fewer offspring than those fed conventional corn.

Read the full story by Ken Roseboro, ed., the Organic and Non-GMO Report, December 2008 via the Organic [...]

Who Owns Nature?: the ETC Group’s Latest Report on the Corporate Race to Control Food

Download the latest report [published November 13] at
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=707
All of the players are named:
Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, etc.

Michael Pollan: to the next President (aka, Farmer-in-Chief)

From the New York Times
By MICHAEL POLLAN
 

Dear Mr. President-Elect,
It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much thought to, at least since [...]

A Closer Look at the Status of Alaska’s Environment

By ROXANNE CHAN and SARAH PETRAS
Anhorage Daily News

As public health professionals, we are concerned about the high rates of birth defects in Alaska and possible links to environmental contaminants. As reported last month in the Daily News, the fact that “Alaska infants are twice as likely to be born with major birth defects as infants [...]

Bayer AG and Bee Colony Collapse: a new lawsuit filed

From the Coalition Against Bayer Dangers 
For nearly two years, Jim Doan painstakingly has kept his thousands of bee colonies away from crops treated with a type of pesticide created by Bayer AG.

“We keep bees away as much as we can. I don’t want them anywhere near it,” said Doan, of Hamlin, N.Y., the state’s [...]