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DuPont gm test sites loss of biodiversity patents untangling us vitamin A rice wto THE SITE home news monocult actions evolution RESOURCES sitemap books links search US contact us ... cause many symptoms of illness. Asia receives 80% of its daily calorie intake from rice. Genetically engineered rice strains will make a lot of money for those who own the patented genes, ...
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1st GE seed on UK national seed list
IRRI's much-flaunted Green Revolution which "caused massive loss of biological diversity in rice paddies throughout Asia". A torchlit march to IRRI ended in a vigil, with banners, chanting and ... against genetic engineering as they learned of planned field tests of blight-resistant rice strains in the Philippine Rice Research Institute in Muoz, Nueva Ecija. Founded in 1959 under an agreement ...
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GM Rice in Japan
CYP2C19 enzymes activate the PAH carcinogen Benzo(a)pyrene, a common air pollutant [5]. GM rice plants expressing the human cyp2b6 gene, obtained by transformation with a plasmid containing the gene ... been shown to activate many environmental carcinogens [5,9]. Rice with novel insect resistance genes Along with the numerous commercial Bt rice strains field-tested, novel insect control genes have been ...
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Rice in Asia: Too Little Iron, Too Much Arsenic
Asia. Researchers from the Japanese Electrical Power Research Institute increased the iron content of rice threefold by adding a seed-specific ferritin (an iron storage protein) from soybean under the control ... an estimated 30 to 60% of the dietary intake of arsenic in polluted regions. There is hope that rice strains can be selected that take in less arsenic than the varieties of rice ...
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Say No To GMOs! - 2007 Updates
Proposed Class Action Attack of the Mutant Rice Industry Tries to Purge Rice Strains German Company Sues U.S. Rice Millers Over Modified Rice Rice Farmer Claims Research Contaminated Crop Court Halts ... Native and Genetically Altered Fish for Open Water Aquaculture New Statute Protects the DNA of Wild Rice Monsanto Tells Pack of Lies in South Africa Italian Campaign Plans Mass "Vote" Against GM Food ...
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Say No To GMOs! - October 2006
Sacramento. He has spent the past three years publicly protesting the growth of genetically engineered rice anywhere and in any quantity. Biotech-averse overseas consumers in Japan, Europe and elsewhere simply ... gene from the daffodil plant and is unrelated to Bayer's rice, which is engineered with bacteria genes. Two rice strains that were genetically engineered with bacteria genes to resist weed ...
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Genetically Modified Foods: Harmful or Helpful?
However, the grant that funded the creation of these two rice strains was not renewed, perhaps because of the vigorous anti-GM food protesting in Europe, ... also be difficult, as the contention of the farmers that they involuntarily grew Monsanto-engineered strains when their crops were cross-pollinated shows. One way to combat possible patent infringement is to ...
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Koshland Science Museum - Media
HIV/AIDS, to the search for vaccines that can protect against new strains of the flu. Infectious disease is a global burden, affecting policy decisions and personal health choices around ... flapped its tail. The devastating waves would cease, said the myth, if a large bag of rice were placed on the serpent’s head. Though modern-day predictions and solutions are quite a bit ...
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Koshland Science Museum - Media
HIV/AIDS, to the search for vaccines that can protect against new strains of the flu. Infectious disease is a global burden, affecting policy decisions and personal health choices around ... flapped its tail. The devastating waves would cease, said the myth, if a large bag of rice were placed on the serpent’s head. Though modern-day predictions and solutions are quite a bit ...
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rice | Greenpeace UK
European Commission's own investigation into EU rice imports, following the admission in August by the US government that untested strains of GM rice had entered the food chain. Read more ... internationally renowned food-security expert Devinder Sharma from India. Sharma pointed out that control over rice, Asia's staple food, is steadily passing into the hands of transnational corporations based in ...
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