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ISIS Press Release 12/05/08 The Institute of Science in Society, PO Box 51885, London NW2 9DH telephone: [44 20 8452 2729] [44 20 7272 5636] To follow up on your articles, Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India ( SiS 27) and Message from Andra Predesh:Return to organic cotton & avoid the Bt cotton trap ( SiS 29), I enclose photographs of mealy bugs infested cotton plants in the demonstration plots...
POSTED: May 12, 2008 By David Kruse The Times-Republican 135 West Main Street, Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-753-6611 Fred Stokes, a prominent figure in the Organization for Competitive Markets wrote: “As you know, the seed industry has become highly concentrated, with Monsanto becoming the dominant global player in the industry.” It is said that he who controls the seed controls the food supply....
Are you aware that a top supplement company, Solgar, that is used by many alternative practitioners, is now owned by Monsanto, I am pretty certain you are aware of that: http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/britact699.cfm - 9th paragraph down However, I've been aware for sometime as an orthomolecular nutritionist and researcher that there is something very odd going on with supplements, that...
After getting involved in the Soya controversies, Monsanto found itself in the midst of another controversy with its "Pig Patent". In 2005, Monsanto had filed two patents for processes which controlled the breeding and the herds of pigs. This resulted in Monsanto being under scrutiny for ownership rights over pigs and their offspring. Many commentators felt that Monsanto...
Cascais to LisbonLisboa Camping Parc Monsanto Lisboa the capital of Portugal is a rare combination of history and bittersweet memories and occupies a hilly site on the estuary of the Tagus. The Lisboa Camping located in the Parc Monsanto is close to public transportation and has many facilities. After settling the Bothan here we headed by foot for the public transportation a bus i
Monsanto, BASF and other developers of genetically modified crops are looking to patent changes in plants that help them survive better in the world's changing climate. But the crop developments may lead to higher bills for farmers as they become forced use a proprietary biotech platform.
Monsanto (NYSE: MON) makes genetically modified [GM] seeds. GM seeds are designed to exhibit certain desirable traits. For example, one of Monsanto's most popular current products is Roundup Ready corn. Roundup is MON's popular brand of weed-killing herbicide; Roundup can be applied directly to Roundup-Ready corn without negatively affecting the corn plant. Meanwhile, the Roundup will...
Last week, the Monsanto succeeded in undermining a right to know bill that would have seen GE food finally labelled in Canada. Today, on the other side of the hemisphere they managed to force out the last government minister standing between them and the Amazon. Marina Silva, Brazil's Environment Minister resigned today, citing pressure from the [...]
Jeez, sorry to be such a downer lately - but everyone should really read this this article about Monsanto. It's like something out of a movie (literally - if you saw Michael Clayton) with their domination of the world food supply and the scare tactics they're deploying against farmers to enforce their "patents." Suing their own customers? Accusing farmers of seed piracy for saving seeds from...
Quoted from a movie you are not supposed to see. A movie we will never see in the US: (video access gone from Cannablog , It Must Be The Vapors , and other places . Found in caches.) The World According to Monsanto 1 of 4 27min On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, entitled...
As well as being a fantastic friend - my second self, Annie is an accomplished writer. Here is a link to one of her poems: GREEN LEAVES, GRAIN AND MONSANTO
Well, technically it isn't murder. And Monsanto isn't the only culprit; they're just the biggest. Tens of thousands of farmers in India have committed suicide during the past few years. A large part of the problem is Monsanto’s increasing stranglehold on the world's seed supply. Their patented seeds cost three times as much as most other [...]
It has been a bit slow here lately as I have been getting started on a few research projects, going to conferences, and teaching a new undergraduate course this Spring. I watched this short documentary on Monsanto’s pursuit of breeding patents/DNA patterns found in pigs. Of course, Monsanto has been infamous for patents relate to genetic modifications to wheat , but I have not closely...
Come out to the Free SKool Friday night to continue our series of discussions about the upcoming Biotech Industry Conference which will be promoting GMO Foods, Bioengineered medicine and Biological weapons, right here in the Convention Center in San Diego. The World According to Monsanto - 108 Min. On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv...
In Monsanto v. David (docket no. 2007-1104), decided February 6, 2008, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's finding that Loren David, a commercial farmer with soybean fields in North and South Dakota, had infringed Monsanto’s U.S. Patent No. 5,352,605 (claiming chimeric genes comprising a CaMV promoter, a regulatory sequence widely used in genetically modified agricultural...
