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Eating GM foods is a health risk
The Premier’s decision to allow genetically modified crops is also bad for the economy. JOHN Brumby’s announcement to allow genetically modified (GM) foods to grow in Victoria threatens more than just...
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GM Soy in Brazil Will Kill the Amazon and Boost Global Warming by 50%
As genetically modified soybeans take over vast tracts in Brazil and all over South America and reports flow in of genetic contamination of local corn in Mesoamerica, grassroots resistance to biotech...
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Showdown for Europe
The European Union is set to make a landmark decision on genetically modified crops, as Alison Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier report. A mammoth bureaucratic battle is looming between senior European...
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Tests in research stations make a mockery of GM ban
The tussle is over wording, but the implications will not be limited to paper only. The cabinet’s resolution on Christmas Day to “amend” the 2001 ban on all field trials of genetically modified (GM)...
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Environmental destruction and Biotechnology: Could genetically modified crops...
With reports coming in about a scourge affecting honeybees, researchers are launching a drive to find the cause of the destruction. The reasons for rapid colony collapse are not clear. Old diseases,...
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Nanotechnology a ‘bigger concern’ than GM foods
The lifting of bans on genetically modified crops has revived the debate about the safety of the food we eat. But the next step in industrial food production has got Australia’s food regulator bracing...
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Consumers in France reject genetically modified crops ahead of French...
According to two surveys, two thirds of people in France do not want any more genetically modified foods on their plates, and they overwhelmingly call for the suspension of corn MON810, produced by...
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Scientists condemn ‘ill-informed, negative’ Prince over GM crops warning
The Prince of Wales was accused of launching an ignorant rant about genetically modified crops last night after claiming that the technology would cause “the biggest environmental disaster of all time”...
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