2012-05-16
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The fate of 16 genetically modified pigs remains undecided, but adopting them out to ”loving homes” as requested by an animal-rights group is a non-starter, the University of Guelph said Tuesday. Prof. Rich Moccia, an associate vice-president at the school, said relinquishing control of the ”enviropigs” posed unacceptable risks. [...] In a letter to Moccia Tuesday, the group called on the school to ensure the pigs would be spared. [...] ”For the same reason you wouldn’t kill 16 healthy dogs at the end of a research project, please don’t kill these poor pigs, who deserve a chance to live out their final years basking in sunshine, taking mud baths, and simply being pigs.”
2012-05-16
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A Singapore partnership has developed what it hopes to be an eco-solution to the world’s demand for biofuel. The world’s first genetically modified Jatropha plant can produce biodiesel faster and better. Plans are in the pipeline to start field trials and commercialise it in three years. [...] Its developers Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and JOil have filed a patent for this genetically modified Jatropha.
2012-05-16
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the Obama administration and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack determined the need for addressing coexistence and a 23-member committee was established in 2011. [...] the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture has been given the job of addressing the size and scope of risks to coexistence, potential compensation mechanisms for crops contaminated, tools and standards to verify eligibility for compensation and figuring losses and finally who would have to pay. [...] There isn’t much talk about the first committee’s success or failure, but it doesn’t seem much came from that committee.
2012-05-16
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American farmers are increasingly expressing regret over the planting of GM crops, which are now causing major problems, and Europe must take note before it is too late – warns campaign group. The British House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s new report on sustainable food recommends government action to tackle the United Kingdom’s unhealthy and environmentally damaging food system. In addition to important recommendations to improve healthy eating and sustainability, the report highlights the need to diversify the research agenda in food and agriculture. The committee also questions the role of genetically modified crops in the future food system.
2012-05-16
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A fast-spreading plague of ”super weeds” taking over U.S. farmland will not be stopped easily, and farmers and government officials need to change existing practices if food production is to be protected, industry experts said on Thursday. ”This is a complex problem,” said weed scientist David Shaw in remarks to a national ”summit” of weed experts in Washington to come up with a plan to battle weeds that have developed resistance to herbicides. Weed resistance has spread to more than 12 million U.S. acres and primarily afflicts key agricultural areas in the U.S. Southeast and the corn and soybean growing areas of the Midwest.
2012-05-16
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Monsanto’s Roundup Ready weed-killing products may continue to lose their potency in the face of a growing epidemic of Roundup-resistant weeds but, according to a new video, industrial-scale farmers need not fear: Dow AgroSciences has come to the rescue. [...] At least, that’s what Dow is selling in its promotional video, which seems to be based on the premise that the herbicide-resistance problem created by genetically modified industrial agriculture can be solved only by the introduction of an intensified breed of genetically modified products.
2012-05-15
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FEARS on the country’s capacity to deal with safety issues concerning genetically modified foods were raised yesterday by scientists. The fears, broadly related to institutions that are supposed to deal with the envisioned use of GMO foods in Kenya. Dr Lubano Kizito of the Kenya Medical Research Institute said the human health is crucial and thus safety issues that need to be talked about. “The many departments or ministries that exist in government is part of the problem in coordinating health issues to do with GMO foods,” Kizito said.
2012-05-15
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With regard to genetically engineered foods and organisms, proponents claim that there is substantial equivalence between the genetically engineered crops and the natural counterparts. Substantial equivalence as the term implies suggests that there is no serious differences between the two groups. However, this claim is not supported by fact. If the substantial equivalence concept were to be substantiated in fact, there would be no need for patenting of the engineered crops or organisms. Secondly, if the products were equivalent to natural species, then makers of GE foods and crops would be bold enough to clearly label their products knowing that there would be no objections by consumers. Proponents of GE crops and products clearly know that their products have significant and yet to be fully understood environmental, social and cultural implications.
2012-05-15
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”The current field trials are being responsibly and safely undertaken together with scientific organizations and partner state universities in compliance with the biosafety requirements and guidelines approved by national regulatory bodies such as the National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines and the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture,” said Dr. Rex Victor Cruz, UP Los Banos Chancellor. Cruz was reacting on the Writ of Kalikasan and writ of continuing mandamus issued by the Supreme Court, temporarily stopping the field trials of genetically-modified organism, particularly of BT talong in the country.
2012-05-15
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Last month scientists at Rothamsted offered to meet and talk to the protesters at a neutral venue to debate their GM wheat trial. But leaders from Rothamsted say they have not had any official response back from Take the Flour Back. ”We have offered them dialogue. We have offered them a public debate,” said Maurice Moloney, director and chief executive of Rothamsted Research. ”We came up with the idea of hosting a debate with a neutral chair. A nationally-known journalist could act as a chair, but we haven’t heard a word back.”
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