Deregulation by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) means Roundup Ready crops can now be grown commercially, endangering non-GMO alfalfa and sugar beet crops by transgenic contamination through the increased use of herbicides. Under the Bush administration, the USDA approved Roundup Ready sugar beet crops, produced and sold by Monsanto, without preparing a standard Environmental […]
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the realization of this vision. When names like Gates, Rockefeller and Syngenta show up as key players on the same project, I find time to dig a bit deeper. One thing this elite group can not be accused of is a reluctance to make an impact on the world,
Monsanto, whose executives have publicly said that they want Monsanto to become the only producer of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the world, is now joined by a smaller company, in California, which has the same hope. That company is Epicyte, whose president, Mitch Hein, announced at a press conference in 2001: “We have a
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In March, negotiations over Novel Food Regulations in the European Union (EU) to ban the use of cloned animals for food broke down due to a lack of agreement between EU member states and the European Parliament. The Parliament sought to prohibit meat from both cloned animals and their offspring, while governments from member states
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