http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=192


Informant: ECOTERRA Intl.

Bloomberg, USA, 17.06.2004

European Union governments blocked the import of a gene-modified rapeseed made by Monsanto Co., undermining efforts to defuse a trans- Atlantic trade row over EU biotech-food restrictions. The move by national environmental regulators comes a month after the European...

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Greenpeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 14, Issue 12


NUCLEAR POWER

The Nation

Suwit questions govt plan to bring in GMOs Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti yesterday questioned government plans to introduce genetically modified agricultural produce, saying...

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Greenpeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 14, Issue 12

Europäisches Patentamt: Bayer will Monopol auf Gen-Saaten durchsetzen

15.06.04

Die entscheidende Verhandlung über ein Patent der Firma Bayer (EP 275957) findet am Dienstag am Europäischen Patentamt (EPA) in München statt. Das Patent steht beispielhaft für die Praxis des Amtes, das Verbot zur Patentierung von Pflanzensorten zu unterlaufen. Die Ansprüche des Bayer-Patentes umfassen die Nutzung und Verwertung genmanipulierter Pflanzen wie Reis, Raps und Mais. Den Einspruch gegen das Bayer-Patent reichte die Münchner Initiative "Kein Patent auf Leben!" 1993 kurz nach Erteilung des Patents ein. Greenpeace unterstützt den Einspruch durch rechtliche Expertise.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=8675

Scientists now able to explore creating genetically engineered superbugs, plus the means to mass-produce and spread them

http://www.oaklandtribune.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,82%257E1865%257E2199592,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9806675%255E664,00.html


Source: Greenpeace News-headlines Digest, Vol 14, Issue 8

AQUATIC TERMINATORS

A troubling new study from the National Academy of Sciences indicates that genetically engineered salmon will not only consume all the food needed by other species of salmon, but will even gobble up members of their own schools. Scientists documented inter-fish relations between genetically engineered (GE) salmon and normal coho salmon in closed tanks with varying levels of food input. Total war erupted, as the frankenfish gobbled up all the food and then started attacking each other. At study's end, there were only one or two GE fish left in tanks that originally held 50 fish. The GE mutants were engineered to grow twice as fast as normal salmon, but in the gene-splicing process, it seems their drive for food and aggressiveness have also increased. The GE fish would ostensibly be raised in enclosed nets on salmon farms on the coasts, but there is great concern for what could happen when these GE salmon escape from their pens. As a note, hundreds of thousands of factory farmed salmon have escaped into the wild in the Northwest, just in the past few years, when floating pens were torn apart by storms or sea lions.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/fish060904.cfm

Directly challenging the powerful biotech industry, a dozen counties in California are now working towards becoming free of genetically engineered crops and animals. Following the lead of Mendocino County, whose citizens voted on March 2, 2004 to make it a GE-free zone, counties including Marin, Sonoma, Humboldt, Butte, San Luis Obispo, and others are gathering petition signatures by the thousands in order to place "GE-Free Zone" ordinances on voter ballots for November. A parallel effort is underway in Boulder County, Colorado. Organizers of these campaigns are working on tight petition deadlines and need volunteers and donations in their area. Additional campaigns are sprouting across the nation, from Vermont to Hawaii.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge-free.htm

Die Theo Müller GmbH & Co. zieht gegen Greenpeace vor Gericht und will die Kampagne gegen Gen-Milch stoppen. Besonders ärgert Müller sich über unsere satirische E-Card

http://act.greenpeace.org/ecs/s2?sk=fxd&i=1421&la=de

und die Sammlung von Stimmen gegen Gentechnik

http://act.greenpeace.org/col/get?i=1415&sk=cc_de&la=de

Am 9. Juni um 14.00 ist Verhandlung in Köln. Weitere Informationen unter:

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