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Challenging GM Crop Success
A new report from International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Application (ISAAA) suggests the global food crisis has prompted an expansion of genetically modified crops, especially in developing countries. But read on to the end of this story and you’ll learn of another report, released by Friends of the Earth on the same day. This second report challenges these claims of success and offers its own data. Read the full article here.
No Magic Bullets
CBC Radio’s The Current deserves credit for digging into some key issues regarding the shameful state of hunger on our planet. Their interview on Monday with Olivier de Shutter, the UN’s Rapporteur on Food Sovereignty, was bang on. But the next day the focus was on a silver-bullet solution that prompted this response from USC. Read More…
Attack of the Triffids has Flax Farmers Baffled
In case you missed it: here is the Globe and Mail’s front page story about accidental GMO contamination of the Canadian flaxseed crop. The effects could be devastating for our farmers and our markets.
Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
Leading up to the World Food Summit in Rome in a few weeks, if you want an excellent summary of arguments for and against the role of biotechnology in solving the world’s food crisis, these six opinions published in the New York Times will be of interest. Tell us what you think.
A Seedy Practice
Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research? The editors of Scientific American think so. They’ve called for an end to restrictions – restrictions imposed by seed companies – that prevent careful review and scrutiny of GM crops by independent scientists. Read the full article here.
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