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 [...]
by: Joëlle Stolz, Le Monde
via:http://www.truthout.org/121208D
Raise the alarm for Mexican corn’s biosecurity: a molecular study conducted by Mexican, American and Dutch researchers demonstrates the presence of genes from genetically modified organisms (GMO) among the varieties of traditional corn cultivated in the remote regions of Oaxaca State in the southern part of the country, even though the [...]
Source: Nature.com
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081112/full/456149a.html
By Rex Dalton
Transgenes from genetically modified (GM) maize (corn) crops have been found in traditional ‘landrace’ maize in the Mexican heartland, a study says. The work largely confirms a similar, controversial result published in Nature in 2001 and may reignite the debate in Mexico over GM crops.
The paper reports finding transgenes in three of [...]
