the bad seed: the misadventures of GMOs
Scientific Tests Must Be Approved by Industry First
Global Research, July 29 09
by F. William Engdahl
One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.
the bad seed: the perils of gmos
“The Failure of Science”: New paper makes a damning case against genetically modified food crops
The Ethicurean
By Bonnie Azab Powell @ 12:19 pm on 3 June 2009
As with climate change, the longer American citizens refuse to learn about this issue, the hotter the water we frogs are sitting in gets. Writes technology reporter Denise Caruso in her excellent book, “Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet“: As long as scientists can justifiably “declare that we, the innumerate public, lack the mental capacity to understand what they, the experts, do…there can be no common ground for understanding between those who create risk and we who must bear it.” And if the current economic meltdown, caused by financial instruments too complex for any mere mortals other than hedge fund managers to understand, has taught us anything, it’s that an ignorant public is begging to get shafted.
the bad seed: the perils of biotchnology
WHEN BIG BUSINESS AND ACADEMIA MIX, WHERE IS THE LINE?
by Alan Guebert
Journal Star, USA, 25.04.2009
When David Chicoine explains his new, part-time job — one of 11 members of the board of directors at seed giant Monsanto Co. — it all sounds very smart, very modern, very … good.
”Big companies like Monsanto,” related Chicoine in a telephone interview Tuesday, ”have contacts anywhere they find talent. Their only interest is high-quality work.”
Chicoine’s anywhere and talent, however, are very uncommon; He’s president of South Dakota State University, the state’s Land Grant university and its premier research and teaching institution. That makes him one of an elite group whose entire membership is fewer than that of the U.S. Senate.
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