Jairam Ramesh, India’s minister for environment and forests, announced yesterday that India would impose a temporary moratorium on …
South Australia alone on GM canola ban
Western Australia recently decided to allow genetically modified (GM) canola to be planted in their fields. A statewide ban on GM …
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Monsanto’s Adventures in Court
Battle ahead: the two largest seed companies, Monsanto and DuPont, have gone to court over their seeds. Apparently DuPont created …
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
In a report (A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health) published in the International Journal of …
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Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?
This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic …
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Claire Hope Cummings- Preserving Biodiversity – video
In Claire Hope Cummings fine book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, she dedicates a chapter to corn, …
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Claire Hope Cummings On Industrialized Agriculture – video
Claire Hope Cummings, in this third segment of interviews hones in upon the essential problems plaguing our agriculture system, …
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Patent Law: How Patents Grew Over Time To Include Living Organisms-2
Part 2: In my first post in this series, I talked about the regular utility patent’s four categories of patentable subject matter …
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Patent Law: How Patents Grew Over Time To Include Living Organisms
Part 1: Monsanto sells a glyphosate-based herbicide called “Roundup.” Monsanto also sells seeds for crops - such as soy, corn, …
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