genetically modified crops

Genetically modified crops

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Synopsis: 4. biotech: Genetics: Genetically modified crops:

BBC 01170.txt

There is huge opposition to genetically modified crops in many countries, with some groups citing safety concerns and others ethical, arguing that the developing world should not be used as a laboratory to test such crops.

impactlab_2012 01297.txt

all discussing genetically modified crops and starkly different versions of the future of food. One one hand we have the state of affairs in the US.

#That most people#who oppose GM CROPS live in rich nations is a dubious assumption at best. In fact, some of the most vocal critics of GM CROPS come from the Global South.

GM Watch has gone just into more detail on this point, that people in developing nations want genetically modified crops.

In 1998, African scientists at a United nations conference strongly objected to Monsanto s promotional GE campaign that used photos of starving African children under the headline Let the Harvest Begin.#

Part of that delusion is not realizing that for opposition to GM CROPS often doesn t stem from opposition to new technology at all.

impactlab_2013 00857.txt

Whether African farmers can grow GM CROPS#s American farmers do on a massive scale#emains#oemired in controversy,#according to an authoritative study of the subject by Amy Orr and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr PDF.

impactlab_2013 01009.txt

#Transgenics next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over Frankenfoods Transgenic canola When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm,

thanks to a whole new generation of GM CROPS now making their way from laboratory to market.

#The first wave of GM CROPS was marketed mainly to farmers, with the goal of making their jobs easier, more productive and more profitable.

Other GM CROPS soon followed, including Monsanto s Bt cotton: a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.

Nature 01967.txt

Nature Newspolicy Business People Research Trend watch Coming up Policy German GM CROPS The highest court in Germany has upheld a law that makes planters of genetically modified (GM CROPS liable

Nature 02517.txt

it exposed a serious weakness in the regulations governing GM CROPS. These are based not on a plant's GM nature

On 1 july, secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack wrote to the company to say that the variety is not subject to the same regulations that govern other GM CROPS.

The Plant Pest Act was completely inappropriate for regulating biotech crops, but the USDA jury-rigged it, says Bill Freese, science-policy analyst at the Center for Food safety in WASHINGTON DC.

to facilitate the regulation of GM CROPS. Nevertheless, Agrobacterium is still industry's tool of choice for shuttling in foreign genes,

a strategy that Botterman says may make it possible to introduce multiple new traits into existing GM CROPS.

Nature 04741.txt

Schouten argues that his product should not be regulated in the same way as genetically modified (GM CROPS that are engineered with bacterial or VIRAL DNA.

The regulation of GM CROPS in the United states is based on laws that were not tailor-made for the technology.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,

has stuck so far to a strict interpretation of a 1957 law designed to protect agriculture against plant pests that was coopted in 1986 to regulate GM CROPS.

At that time, GM CROPS were engineered nearly always using Agrobacterium tumefaciens a bacterial pest that can insert DNA into plant genomes.

Jennifer Kuzma, a policy analyst at North carolina State university in Raleigh, says that a lack of regulation for the latest approaches could fuel public suspicions about GM CROPS."

popsci_2013 01048.txt

The results indicate that it would be prudent for GM CROPS that are destined for human food

and animal feed including stacked GM CROPS to undergo long-term animal feeding studies preferably before commercial planting particularly for toxicological and reproductive effects.

and these GM CROPS are consumed widely by people particularly in the USA so it would be be prudent to determine

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