BIOTECH and Genetically Engineered/Modified Food -
  SOME MAIN SITES:


May 21, 2001 5:35 PM ET  GM Meat on Sale in 10 to 15 Years, Scientists Say By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Genetically modified meat could be on shop shelves in the next 10 to 15 years, British researchers predicted Monday. Professor Patrick Bateson of the Royal Society of leading scientists said it will be feasible to breed chicken resistant to salmonella or cattle genetically altered to produce lean meat....Bateson, chairman of a Royal Society group that produced a new report on GM animals, said the meat and products would be subject to strict regulations and testing before they reached the market. He believes the recent uproar about genetically modified crops that gripped Europe was due to
misinformation and that the public will be more likely to accept GM products if people are given good scientific evidence. `There are a lot of misgivings based on misinformation,'' he said in a telephone interview.

 

May, 2001- FrankenFish Project Genetically reengineer your own fish using Flash 5.0.

September, 2000  (press here). Labeling Genetically Altered Food Is a Thorny Issue By ANDREW POLLACK New York Times. The discovery of an unapproved variety of genetically engineered corn in a brand of store-bought taco shells is prompting new calls for the labeling of bioengineered foods.

Aug 21, 2000 - Corn Safety Questioned (press here). W A S H I N G T O N — Iowa State University researchers said today they found more evidence that pollen from bio-engineered corn could be deadly for Monarch butterflies, prompting environmentalists to renew demands for tighter restrictions on the crop.

Feb 15, 2000- Genetic Tinkering For Bigger Catch Altering Genes Resulted In Larger Fish  Canadian Farm Seeks FDA Approval  (press here) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canad  CBS  Salmon born on the same day, the bigger ones were genetically altered (CBS) Now there's a new gene-altered first: fish genetically altered to grow bigger and more rapidly. Its developers hope to soon take this out of the lab and into the food chain to consumers' dinner table.

Feb 2000 - Farmers Burn Genetically Engineered Crops in India (press here) for photo.
Feb 9, 2000 - ENN News (press here) - Insect science faces wobbly future, report says By Margot Higgins Soldier of bad fortune: the Formosan termite, Coptotermes formosanus, is high on entomologists' pest list.  Insect-borne diseases, the impact of genetically modified crops and the tenacious Formosan termite are a few of the biggest pests for entomologists in the new century, according to a recent report.
January 2000 - No Small (Genetic) Potatoes (press here) A British researcher raises doubts about genetically engineered food by Joel Bleifuss In These Times magazine - Source: Third World Traveler
Jan. 29, 2000 - Matt Crenson The Associated Press ABC News - (press here).M O N T R E A L,  — After negotiations late into the night, delegates reached an international agreement today on the trade of genetically modified food and other products.
January 20, 2000 Green Peace on Genetic Engineering in Canada (press here).FINAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR A BIOSAFETY PROTOCOL IN MONTREAL
Jan/2000- Food and the Frankenstein factor - (press here) Plant breeding department in the Philippines. Credit: WWF-Canon/Vin Toledo - Some 4,500 wheat varieties in a test field. Credit: WWF/SFRA/Changins By Claude Martin -A passionate debate is raging over the use of genetically modified foods - crops into which 'foreign' genes are introduced to make them resistant to such things as pests and adverse weather conditions. Source WWF.
12/3/99 - Modified-Corn Toxins Linger in Soil (press here) A report in the Dec. 2 issue of Nature raises more red flags about genetically engineered corn after researchers found that a toxin produced by the corn lingers in soil. The corn at issue was bio-engineered to produce a toxin in its leaves, stock, pollen and roots to destroy pests.
11/1/99 (press here) - Campaign to change the world Monday, November 1, 1999
By Pat Murphy -- the fate of an entire new multi-billion dollar international biotechnology — genetic modification of food — being held hostage to hysteria and undeserved fears about dangers to consumer health?

11/20/99 Splitting headache Monsanto's modified soya beans are cracking up in the heat NEW SCIENTIST (press here)."IT SEEMS barely a week goes by without another piece of bad news for the agribiotech giant Monsanto. Now researchers in the US have found that hot climates don't agree with Monsanto's herbicide-resistant soya beans, causing stems to split open and crop losses of up to 40 per cent."
 11/11/99 - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FEMINIST TECHNOLOGY CRITICS GONE? By Prof. Ellen Balka, Simon Fraser University - LOKA Alert (press here) - reviews the history of feminist engagement with many kinds of technology. But
 "where," she asks, "have all the feminist information technology critics gone?  They've been seduced by the potential of the World Wide Web everywhere..."
11/16/99 - (press here) - Can Corn Be Patented? Mexican Farmers May be Forced Out of the Crop  Invented by Their Ancestors - Mesoamerican  Indian peasants gave corn to the world, developing the plant over thousands of  years by mixing various strains of wild maize.  Source ABC News.
11/01/99 - (press here) - Paul Bishop in About.com Trade tensions are on the rise between the US and Europe  again. This time the dispute involves the export of genetically-modified (GM) agricultural products that eventually  find their way to Europe's dinner table. ... "A consumer backlash erupted in Europe earlier this year when activists protested that GM foods have not been adequately tested for safety. European sensitivities to food safety have been heightened by recent incidents (none of which are related to GM food) including the 1996 outbreak of madcow disease in Britain, dioxin-contaminated chicken in Belgium, and tainted Coke in Belgium and France."
9/20/99 Sept 20 —(press here) MS/NBC News- Global talks on regulating the multi-billion-dollar trade in genetically modified foods and crops have ended without resolution, but both industry and environmentalists on  Monday said progress had been made, albeit on different levels.
5/11/99- Genetically Modifying 'Frankenstein' foods -(press here)- Genetically modified foods have been a hot topic in many parts of the world this past year, particularly in Europe.
1999- Websites Regarding Genetically Engineered Food (press here) for Animal Rights Resource Site. (Press here) for Mothers for Natural Law of the Natural Law Party and more links to genetic engineering. (Press Here) for The Campaign for Food Safety/Organic Consumers Association.
A mutable feast  Will the fight over gene-altered food products  leapfrog across the Atlantic? (press here) for MSNBC News Article. (photo).
1999- Biotechnology's Bitter Harvest - Herbicide-Tolerant Crops and the Threat to Sustainable Agriculture (press here) for Environmental defense Fund report.

February, 1999 The Gene Letter including article State-Coerced Eugenics in the Postmodern World (press here). Has search engine and back issues.

November 13, 1999. Human cell,  cow egg fused Could method lead to replacement body parts? MSNBC News Service report (press here). Site has place for you to post your own views.

the Gene Letter (press here) Lots of links. January 31/00 - Reports of Gene Therapy Effects- (press here) WASHINGTON (AP) _ The National Institutes of Health has been swamped with reports of serious side effects from experimental gene therapy since an Arizona teen-ager died during one such experiment last fall, it was reported Monday. November 3, 1999 NYT -A SPECIAL REPORT Few Federal Checks Exist on the Growing of Crops Whose Genes Are Altered By CAROL KAESUK YOON  (press here). "Scientists who studied the approvals say the department has frequently relied  on unsupported claims and shoddy studies by the seed companies." 10/30/99 New Scientist - report on Biotechnology (vol 17, p 1083) -(press here). Sue Sullivan from Organogenesis, a biomedical company in Canton,  Massachusetts, took collagen from a pig's intestine and removed all  the attached cells. This left a porous protein sheet that she wound around a rod to make a tube.