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The sinking of Bayer Cropscience

10-02-2004 01:50 | Bio-technology | World

Was checking out the Bayer various company websites, as you do ;-) and came across this weird bit of news.

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GM SCIENTIST MEETS BIOTECH BAKING BRIGADE

22-01-2004 15:22 | Bio-technology | Ecology | London | World

Paul Rylott, the top GM Scientist of Bayer Cropscience was pied at a conference in London

action against Bayer PLC

Anti-GM protesters visit HC Starck's offices in Sheffiled as part of the 'bail out of GM' week of action.

The McMad Cow (by Latuff)

31-12-2003 19:32 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Health | World

Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Scientists quit UK amid GM attacks

18-10-2003 11:03 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

The cost of attacks against genetically modified crop trials emerged this week as more British plant scientists left the country to pursue their work abroad unmolested.

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Brazil agrees to grow GM crops

John Vidal and Gareth Chetwynd in Sao Paulo
Friday September 26, 2003
The Guardian

Stop GM Commercialisation - Target Bayer Cropscience!

14-09-2003 13:53 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Technology | World

Over the next few months the government is expected to reach a decision on whether to allow the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, which could begin as early as next spring. The environment and our health is under threat.

Support Direct Action against GM

www.greengloves.org

After five years of massive public opposition to GM and a nationwide public debate, Tony Blair will decide in October whether to allow commercial growing of GM crops.

CropScience v GeneWatch - York's "great GM Debate"

As the - how far removed? - camps debated their postions about GM...
The "non-governmental" organisation's "GM? Debate" rolled into York. Genewatch and Bayer did the lead-in...
An interesting meeting ensued... [report from imc-york's e-mail list]

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Scientist "Crucified" for Good Evidence against GM Food Safety

THE SINISTER SACKING OF THE WORLD'S LEADING GM EXPERT - AND THE TRAIL THAT LEADS TO TONY BLAIR AND THE WHITE HOUSE

Video - 4am sunday morning, GM giants wheat trial crop trashed

GM crop trashing near Reading

29-06-2003 13:03 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Oxford | World

at 4.00 am Sunday morning syngenta's GM wheat trial crop was trashed at Jealott's Hill research lab by 60 white clad activists from all over the UK.

GM Crops and Poverty

The widespread adoption of GM crops seems likely to exacerbate the underlying causes of food insecurity, leading to more hungry people, not fewer. To have a lasting impact on poverty, ActionAid believes policy makers must address the real constraints facing poor communities - lack of access to land, credit, resources and markets instead of focusing on risky technologies that have no track record in addressing hunger.

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David Bregmann, an Englishman is arrested with 3 under age girls in Brazil

21-06-2003 00:13 | Bio-technology | World

Sexual Tourism in the North of Brazil has reached tragic numbers, tourists mostly from Europe come to Brazil after girls as young as 12. Girls enter prostitution to support families that otherwise would not have any other way of subsistence.

GM Crops 'May Push Poorest Farmers Into Debt'

Genetically modified crops will not tackle world hunger and could threaten the livelihoods of Third World farmers, a new study has said.
The report is published today by the charity ActionAid, before the start of the Government's long-awaited debate on GM next week.

ITS GM WAR! USA to use WTO to force EU to eat GMO!

13-05-2003 18:42 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

IT'S WAR!!!Today (13 May 2002), the US Trade representative has announced that WTO proceedings will start to force the EU to abandon its moratorium on new GM products. American multinational corporation Monsanto has long been pushing for this move, but the US Govt. wanted to get the invasion of Iraq over before antagonising the world even further.

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