USDA violates environmental laws and regulations in attempt to circumvent recent federal court order making the planting illegal
On September 1, 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was in the process of issuing permits to authorize the planting of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings this Fall, without performing any review of the crops’ environmental impacts.
UK & US gov’t scientists parrot Monsanto’s talking points
The U.S. isn’t the only country whose public research institutions have been bought by corporations pushing the agricultural biotechnology industry’s wares and research agenda.
Why Is the Obama Administration Parroting Monsanto Talking Points?
Something’s very wrong when the chief scientist at the USDA says we’ll have to start farming parks, forests and golf courses if we don’t switch to biotech.
Scientist leading GM crop test defends links to US biotech giant Monsanto
Research professor Jonathan Jones says his verdict on a potato trial in Norfolk will not be influenced by his past commercial ties to Monsanto
Anti-GM campaigners say a trial to genetically protect potatoes against blight is a waste of taxpayers’ money because a naturally produced strain already gives immunity.
UK : Environment secretary Caroline Spelman backs GM crops
In her first interview in charge of Defra, Caroline Spelman committed coalition to becoming most pro-GM government yet
State Regulatory Agencies and Monsanto’s Management – Playing a Game of Musical Chairs
Monsanto’s strategy of establishing a network of influence inside administrations – illustrated by the case of Michael Taylor
The authorisation for the marketing of GMOs: a process closely managed by Monsanto
How Monsanto “inspired” the regulations for the marketing of GMOs.
How the principle of substantial equivalence came to be accepted despite a raft of proof to the contrary
How the decision to market GMOs in the US was fiercely contested by FDA scientists.
Scientific Committees Infiltrated
Experts Close to Monsanto on the Scientific Committees of National and International Organisations
An other revolving door : Beachy joining Obama administration
President Barack Obama has appointed Dr. Roger Beachy, an ex vice president of Monsanto, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, to serve as the first director of a new federal agriculture agency.
Questions for a Trade Official
When Islam Siddiqui appears for his Senate confirmation, possibly as early as next week, it will be time for some tough questions.
Leading European Food Safety Authority Staff Member Moves into Industry
Munich/ Parma - A leading staff member of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has quit to work in industry. Suzy Renckens, scientific coordinator of the GMO panel, officially represented Syngenta in an expert hearing at EU level in 2008.
Obama’s “Agribusiness as Usual” Problem
Biotech- and Industry-Friendly Ag Appointments have Farm, Hunger and
Enviro Groups Lining Up in Protest
India : How Bt brinjal was cleared
Anti-GM groups say expert panel acted under pressure
Head of department moves from European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to biotech company within two months
Munich / Parma - The former head of the GMO-panel at the European Food Safety Authority EFSA, Suzy Renckens, has moved directly into the genetic engineering industry without any objections or restrictions being imposed by the authority
European commission gives green light to genetically modified potatoes
Brussels, March 2 - A decision announced today by Europe’s new health and consumer commissioner, John Dalli, to give the go ahead for genetically modified potatoes to be grown in Europe, has been condemned by Friends of the Earth Europe.
France blasts GM crop approvals
PARIS - Europe’s food safety agency [EFSA] has used partial evidence to approve genetically modified crops, including a GM potato developed by BASF, and should overhaul its methods, a French environment minister said.
Advantage GM in Europe
BRUSSELS, May 18, 2010 (IPS) - Leading biotechnology companies have been granted privileged access to the European Union’s policy makers as part of their efforts to speed up the approval of new genetically modified (GM) crops.
US Solicitor General Elena Kagan Went to Bat for Monsanto
Urge Obama to Withdraw Kagan’s Supreme Court Nomination
Advantage GM in Europe
BRUSSELS, May 18, 2010 (IPS) - Leading biotechnology companies have been granted privileged access to the European Union’s policy makers as part of their efforts to speed up the approval of new genetically modified (GM) crops.
