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GM WEEKLY WATCH number 100
GM Watch, 26-11-2004

from Claire Robinson, WEEKLY WATCH editor

Dear all

In the week in which the powerful World Conservation Union called for a global moratorium on GMO releases, the industry continues to retreat from hotspots of resistance. Bayer has given up on Britain, withdrawing its last GM seeds from the approval process (see EUROPE), and GM pharm company Ventria has fled California, taking refuge in Missouri (see BAD-IDEA VIRUS LATEST). Even in China, which is somewhat insulated from the battles raging in the rest of the world, there seem to be qualms about forging ahead with genetically modifying its staple crop, rice. (ASIA)

In Germany, meanwhile, the industry is engaging in a masterly exercise in doublethink. Monsanto is using German research (non peer-reviewed, of course!) which claims to show there's no danger of GM farmers contaminating non-GM crops, to support their opposition to a proposed new German law under which GM farmers would be held liable for contaminating non-GM crops (EUROPE). In other words, Monsanto is yet again claiming GM to be perfectly safe while desperately opposing any liability for damages! Let's hope the German government maintains its generally strong capacity for logic and doesn't get bamboozled by this scam.

Please don't miss an important CAMPAIGN OF THE WEEK, and do forward the details to all your contacts. The action only takes a minute.

Claire  claire@gmwatch.org
www.gmwatch.org / www.lobbywatch.org
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GM firms finally give up on planting in Britain
The Independent, Uk, by Geoffrey Lean, 24-11-2004

DATE: 21 Nov 2004

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After GM Food ��� here comes Nano Food!
re poster, 24-11-2004

After GM Food ��� here comes Nano Food!
UK food regulators challenged to remove Nanotech foods from the shelves.

Publication of new report: ���Down on the Farm: The Impact of Nano-Scale Technologies on Food and Agriculture���


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After GM Food – here comes Nano Food!
nano geek, 24-11-2004


UK food regulators challenged to remove Nanotech foods from the shelves
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Monsanto, Bayer y Unilever, acusadas de permitir el trabajo infantil
Report, 23-11-2004

Monsanto, Bayer y Unilever, acusadas de permitir el trabajo infantil en sus filiales en India

Unos 84.000 niños trabajan en "horrendas condiciones" en campos de semilla de algodón, según un informe de ONG, al servicio de empresas locales o de filiales de multinacionales como Monsanto, Bayer y Unilever.

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CONTAMINAÇÃO TRANSGÊNICA
Report, 23-11-2004

Um fato novo confirma uma das principais preocupações dos críticos dos transgênicos em relação a sua liberação indiscriminada e sem controle: a contaminação.
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IUCN Moratorium on GMOs - Press release
IUCN, 23-11-2004

World Conservation Congress approves moratorium on further release of genetically modified organisms.

For Immediate Release

Bangkok, Thailand
22 November 2004
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Desde la verde cordillera
Colectivo Medio Ambiente- Indymedia Arge, 23-11-2004

A poco de haber emitido un comunicado en busca de solidaridad frente a la construcción de 6 represas en el río Carrenleufú. Moira Millán e integrantes de las comunidades afectadas vendran en Diciembre a Buenos Aires, durante la Cumbre Mundial de Cambio Climático, para alertar sobre la situación y los efectos de las represas que inundaran territorio mapuche y comunidades y poblados campesinos.

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The Island Of Dr. Moreau
twospiritwarrior, 23-11-2004

Beastie boys and girls.
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Action alert against Sainsbury's GM Milk - email the top people!
Narwal, 23-11-2004

Please distribute on any anti-GM list or otherwise you may be a member of. Sainsburys need to know just how much the public in the UK are against their policies.

Action Alert Against Sainsburys' GM fed milk products
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The US Armys Mycoplasma Patent
8, 22-11-2004

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Now EVERYONE Has Gulf War Syndrome
billder, 22-11-2004

gulf war 1 The medical community is hobbled because they are trying to understand things like gulf war illness without understanding the radiation technology deployed daily via the chemtrailing....which is rather ludicrous as the first WARFARE tests of this tech were done during the first gulf war....the satellite images are graphic
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Bayer Abandons GM crops in India and UK
features, 21-11-2004

15th Nov: In an admission of immense significance to the entire genetic engineering industry, Bayer Crop Science has conceded to Greenpeace India that all of its projects on genetically engineered crops in India have been "discontinued" [see newswire report | Bayer Admission Letter (pdf) | Greenpeace Statement]

"We don't need genetically engineered crops to feed India," said a genetic engineering campaigner for Greenpeace India. "Around the world, in fact, the promises made by the genetic engineering industry have been unfulfilled, whether of increasing crop yields or reducing pesticide use."

This retreat follows other recent decisions that set Bayer back - on 9th November Bayer Crop Science removed the last 2 GM crop varieties still in the approval process for the UK National Seed List [see report]. Previously in March 2004, the company announced they would be pulling out of GE crop research in the UK. A few months later, in June, Bayer announced they would not pursue commercialization of GE canola in Australia. Bayer's letter to Greenpeace India following direct action against the company, concedes that research into engineered cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, tomato and mustard seed has all been halted.

"It is clear that popular resistance to genetic engineering is not diminishing as the industry had hoped it would," said Doreen Stabinsky, GE campaigner for Greenpeace International. "No matter what country we're talking about, consumers are on the same page. They don't want to eat genetically engineered food. That's good news for farmers and good news for the environment."

For more see: Indymedia UK Biotech Section | Biotech IMC | Genetics Action | CBGnetwork

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Revisiting the Tryptophan scare of 1989
21-11-2004

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Maybe it's because Thanksgiving always brings on a lot of talk about turkey, which if eaten (ew) instead of allowed to live, is high in tryptophan. Or maybe it's because of the biotech book I'm reading. Whatever the reason, remember the tryptophan scare? Do you know what caused it? Chances are, you don't.

It was 1989. A mysterious outbreak of a bizarre and deadly disease began quietly enough at first. Doctors named the new disease Eosinophila Myalgia Syndrome (EMS). In some people it seemed like a bad episode of the flu, but in others it became much more severe. It caused paralysis, neurological problems, heart problems, painful muscular aches, headaches, fatigue, memory loss, cognitive defects, swollen, cracked skin, and a host of other nasty symptoms. Dozens of people actually died from it.

It made front page news when the disease was eventually traced to a popular dietary supplement, the amino acid L-Tryptophan. The FDA issued an immediate recall of all the tryptophan in the country, and instituted a ban on the importation of the supplement. Panic erupted, as millions of people had been taking Tryptophan for many years for conditions such as anxiety, depression, PMS, and insomnia. Some people worried that they, too, might get sick. Others feared that the conditions for which they had taken it would return if they could not get more.

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[ Other articles by CatWoman ]


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ZOMBIE WIRE RFID NEWS
James Mata, 20-11-2004

RFID NEWS from the other side of the machine
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New FDA GE Guidelines Allow for Contamination of our Food Supply
NW RAGE, 20-11-2004

Yet again the FDA does nothing to protect our food supply from contamination via genetically engineered crops though this should come as no surprise when the FDA is staffed by dozens of employees who used to work in the biotech industry.
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The RAGE Report # 14 - Act now to protect "COOL"
Jim, 19-11-2004

This is our email newsletter. You can sign up to receive it at www.nwrage.org
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Commercial use of Genetically Modified Trees yet on its way
vlo, 19-11-2004

gm-trees propaganda Commercial use of Genetically Modified Trees have been pushed under the Climate Change agenda and are already a practice in China. December 2003 the United Nations have approved GM-trees as a means to offset CO2. A month later a coalition of Finnish NGOs launched a petition calling for a global ban on GM trees. This petition for a global ban on GM trees will be presented for the UNFCCC at its 10th session this December. In the meantime more field trials have been developed and resistance have been growing.

[ Sign the Petition | Articles on GM-trees | World Rain Forest Movement ]


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Tryptophan: A Reminder
CatWoman, 19-11-2004

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Maybe it's because Thanksgiving always brings on a lot of talk about turkey, which if eaten (ew) instead of allowed to live, is high in tryptophan. Or maybe it's because of the biotech book I'm reading. Whatever the reason, remember the tryptophan scare? Do you know what caused it? Chances are, you don't.
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La sordidez del tango y el final de la globalización.
Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega (goog, 19-11-2004

Homenaje a mis 5 amigos de Indymedia-Gollasullu(NUNA,SINCHI,CHAMA,AMUYU y AJAYU) y a todos aquellos que intentan sin éxito pensar el mundo, huyendo de inercias consumistas, entre los que ,seguro, se encuentran otros muchos amigos de Indymedia.

"Entregamos nuestra libertad a cambio de seguridad y lo que recibimos fue engaños, enfermedades, transgénicos, contaminación, hedor, la sustitución del mundo fetal por el mundo fecal, tumores cerebrales y anales generalizados, el ir de algo cuando lo elegante era no ir de nada, más petróleo, ¡maldito petróleo! ¿quién decía que se había acabado? ¡Ojalá hubiese sido cierto!. Había en Siberia y China suficiente petróleo para chamuscar a mil planetas más.
¿Y que me dicen de la tan manida productividad?"
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