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• in Green
  Scientist Claims Link Between GMO Crops and Livestock Infertility
  Roundup Ready Alfalfa is only the beginning in a long slide away from organic crop production
  by themomu / on Apr 2, 2011
• in Green
  Organic Farmers Prepare to Deliver a "Beet" Down to the Feds and Big Business
  The USDA defies a Federal ruling against genetically modified sugar beets; the organic community takes to the Internet in protest.
  by jreinh01 / on Feb 6, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “genetic engineering”

 

• France Defeats Monsanto

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 124
  Gordon Davidson writes in the Scottish Farmer : France has held firm in its opposition to Monsanto’s genetically modified MON 810 maize [trade name: YieldGard] – and the agri-chemical multinational has admitted defeat. Monsanto had been putting legal pressure on the French government to lift its 2008 ...
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• French consumers chase #GMO seeds out

  
  Master of My Universe: Thoughts on Living Out Loud — Authority: 89
  France.  What do you think of first?  Great food!  That’s my memory of touring France.  Supreme, enticing, wonderful food.  People who pay attention to what they eat.  People who can even drink wine with their food because the food is so good the wine doesn’t hurt them. French people know better than to eat ...
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• Britain: National Patient DNA Database?

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  The document to which he’s referring is here: Building on Our Inheritance: Genomic Technology in Healthcare. Via: Kevin Townsend: You have to look long and hard, but eventually you find it. There, on page 51 of ‘Building on our inheritance – Genomic technology in healthcare’ is the one and only mention of the ...
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• Genetics Researcher Killed in Texas

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 126
  Flag for those maintaining lists of dead scientists. Via: ABC News: A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home. … Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, was driving through her Houston townhouse complex around midnight on Monday ...
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• Israeli Team Produces Anti-Malaria Drug From Tobacco Plants

  
  Wall Street Daily — Authority: 495
    Tobacco has long had a reputation for causing fatal lung disease, but now the plant may be used to save lives. Israeli scientists, led by Hebrew University Professor, Alexander Vainstein, are using genetically modified tobacco to produce the anti-malaria drug artemisinin. The drug is usually extracted from the ...
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• God knows…

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 122
  “How did it all start?” — Yesterday and en route to Michael’s arts and crafts, just over the 880 interchange, I tried to tell Maw/Paw what I read: how aliens created “life” by their advanced genetic engineering trillions of years … Continue reading  →
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• The Amazing Spider-Goat!

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 699
  This is the kind of scientific story that’s a little “ooh” with some “ew!” mixed in, too: Scientists at Utah State University have cleverly combined goat and spider genes to make a normal-looking strain of goat that happens to be able to produce extra protein in its milk that can be made into spider silk. ...
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• Tell Walmart to Reject New GMO Sweet Corn

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 105
  This growing season there’s a new GMO in town: Monsanto’s GE sweet corn . This Roundup Ready product is the first GE corn for direct human consumption, and it has not been tested by the USDA and will not be labeled.  If you’re unhappy about this, you’re not alone. The majority of consumers don’t want to ...
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• Genetically Modified Orange Trees Set for Florida Field Trials

  
  Organic Common Sense — Authority: 501
  Hamlin orange trees that are genetically engineered to produce a natural insecticide to ward off Asian citrus psyllids might be planted in Florida fields as soon as the required permits are granted. The trees which have been three years in the works, were developed by Cornell University scientists. Plant pathologists ...
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• BTR Show – Surviving the Spike by Nader Elhefwany

  
  Alchemy of Scrawl — Authority: 116
  Just before her eighteenth birthday Roberta Jennings finds out that she was born in an illegal experiment in genetic engineering. In the cover-up that follows, she gets sucked into a warped version of a witness protection program. Roberta ends up working for a private intelligence firm which immerses her in a world ...
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• How Genetically Modified Foods Could Affect Our Health in Unexpected Ways

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 116
  AlterNet | Jan 11, 2012 By Ari LeVaux Chinese researchers have found small pieces of rice ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will bind to receptors in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol ...
  2 weeks ago

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  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 137
  http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/india-slams-monsanto-with-unprecedented.html
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• FLORIDA: WORRIED ABOUT THOSE GM MOSQUITOES BEING RELEASED IN THE FLORIDA KEYS? HERES A PETITION YOU MIGHT WANT TO SIGN.

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 137
  https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/455/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9175
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• Dow & Monsanto in deadly race on the pesticide treadmill

  
  Pesticide Action Network North America - Advancing Alternatives to Pesticides Worldwide — Authority: 405
  You’ve all heard the news: farmers across the country are losing their fields to superweeds so formidable and fast-spreading that they break farm machinery and render millions of acres of farmland useless. These superweeds have evolved as a direct consequence of Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready pesticide-seed package. ...
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• GM Corn Resistant to 2,4-D About to be Deregulated

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 528
  The USDA is asking for comments on a GM corn that is resistant to 2-4,D. 2,4-D works against broadleaf weeds, which makes it useful in many agricultural operations and also in home lawns. It’s used to control broadleaf weeds in corn, rice, soybeans, alfalfa, orchards, and many other crops. It is the most widely ...
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• Food & The Future

  
  A Philosopher's Blog — Authority: 103
  Image via Wikipedia Throughout most of human history getting enough to eat has been a serious problem. The Green Revolution changed this for many humans. The Junk Revolution also changed things, especially in the United States: now we have significant numbers of people who are both obese and malnourished.  There is ...
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