Monsanto's advice: "RR crops with additional herbicides"

[img_assist|nid=173|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=43]Monsanto advices framers to use three additional herbicides to deal with herbicide resistant palmer amaranth. What happened to the promise that GM crops would reduce the herbicide applications? Is this the confirmation that such promises were just a sales pitch?

Submitted by Antje on 16 Sep 2005.

C/F/96.05.10 - Notification for the cultivation of Bt11 maize in the EU

[img_assist|nid=175|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=100|height=43]This new report, written on behalf of Greenpeace, shows that no serious investigation was conducted on the effects of Bt11 maize on the environment and on animals feeding on it. Why does EFSA accepts a notification that lacks so much information, and why does it discard the existing scientific literature?

September 2005

A. Lorch, Greenpeace Report, September 2005

GM Contamination Register

[img_assist|nid=21|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=150|height=65]Since their introduction in 1996, GM crops have contaminated food, feed, seed and the environment right across the globe. Over 60 have been documented in 27 countries on 5 continents. In June 2005, GeneWatch and Greenpeace launched the GM Contamination Registerto record them.

Submitted by Antje on 30 Aug 2005.

GM Contamination Register

[img_assist|nid=143|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=43]Since their introduction in 1996, GM crops have contaminated food, feed, seed and the environment right across the globe. Over 60 have been documented in 27 countries on 5 continents. In June 2005, GeneWatch and Greenpeace launched the GM Contamination Registerto record them.

Submitted by Antje on 30 Aug 2005.

Vitamin A deficiency: Diverse causes, diverse solutions

[img_assist|nid=179|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=100|height=43]Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects about 40% of the world population. Many of those affected from vitamin and mineral deficiencies (VMD) appear to have enough to eat but still regularly miss vitamins and micronutrients such as iron, iodine or calcium in their diet. VAD especially affects small children and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers, resulting in higher suspectibility to other diseases and irreversible blindness.

March 2005

A. Lorch, Greenpeace March 2005

Golden Rice update: Vitamin A deficiency - Diverse causes, diverse solutions

[img_assist|nid=143|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=43]The goal of combating VAD is not to provide medical treatment, it is to avoid VAD and another VMDs. By combating VAD with home gardens, sustainable systems are created that provide food security and diversity from the grassroots level - in a way that empowers women and protects agro-biodiversity.

Submitted by Antje on 15 Mar 2005.

Monsanto bribes in Indonesia

[img_assist|nid=24|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=150|height=65]Monsanto fined for bribing Indonesian officials to avoid environmental studies for Bt cotton.

Complete dossier

Submitted by Antje on 15 Jan 2005.

Riskantes Heilsversprechen. Manipulierte Pflanzen sollen Medikamente und Impfstoffe liefern.

[img_assist|nid=356|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=100|height=43]Grüne Felder voll mit Pflanzen, die medizinische Wirkstoffe und Medikamente produzieren - das ist die Vision, die GenforscherInnen und Firmen mit dem Schlagwort "Biopharming" populär machen möchten. Realität sind derzeit Testfelder in den USA. Die gentechnisch manipulierten Gewächse gefährden nicht nur die Umwelt. Sie sind auch riskant für die Nahrungsmittelproduktion und die menschliche Gesundheit.

December 2004

A. Lorch, Bioskop 28, Dezember 2004

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