From: PANUPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resource Pointer #387: Genetically Modified Organisms
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:58:30 -0700
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Resource Pointer #387 (Genetically Modified Organisms- GMOs)
June 15, 2005
For copies of the following resources, please contact the
appropriate publishers or organizations directly.
*Genetically Modified Crops: The African Challenge, 2005*
Environmental Rights Action, Friends of the Earth, Nigeria. Explores
the challenges Africa faces today as leaders are being assured that
genetically modified or engineered (GM) crops and GM food aid will
eradicate hunger, and malnutrition. Report emphasizes the
environmental and social risks of a GMO invasion of Africa. 26
pages. Available online as a free download at
http://www.eraction.org/index.php/. Contact Friends of the Earth
Nigeria, PO Box 10577, Ugbowo, Benin City, Nigeria; phone +234 52
600165; fax +234 52 602680; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]; website
http://www.eraction.org/.
*Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United
States: The First Nine Years, 2004* Charles M. Benbrook. Reveals
that farmers now use more pesticides on the top three genetically
engineered (GE) crops--corn, soybeans, and cotton--than on
conventional varieties. Predicts that the intensity of herbicide use
on GE crops is not likely to subside in the near future because of
the popularity of herbicide tolerant (HT) varieties (tolerant to
glyphosate), the limited supply of seeds for non-HT varieties, and
increasingly aggressive pesticide industry campaigns targeting
farmers growing HT crops. Available as a free download at
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/biotechnology/page.cfm?page
ID=1542. Contact Union of Concerned Scientists, 2 Brattle Square,
Cambridge, MA 02238-9105; phone (617) 547-5552; fax (617) 864-9405;
website http://www.ucsusa.org/.
*Control Through Contamination: US Forcing GMO Corn and Free Trade
on Mexico and Central America, 2003* S'ra DeSantis. Looks at the
dangers genetically engineered crops and foods pose to human health,
the environment and farming communities. Also focuses on the ways
that free trade agreements force GMOs (genetically modified
organisms) into Mexico and Central America. 28 pages. Available
online as a free download at
http://www.asej.org/index.php?name=home&ID=59. Contact ISE
Biotechnology Project, Northeast Resistance Against Genetic
Engineering, 1118 Maple Hill Road, Plainfield, VT 05667; phone (802)
454-7138; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]; website http://www.nerage.org/.
*Status of crop biotechnologies in Developing Countries - FAO
report, 2003* Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations. Contains an on-line searchable database called FAO-BioDeC,
providing information on biotechnology products and techniques in
use or in the pipeline in developing countries. Entries cover
genetically modified crops and non-GM biotechnologies. Accessible in
Arabic, English, French and Spanish. 53 pages. Available as a free
download at http://www.fao.org/biotech/. Contact FOA, Biotechnology
in Food and Agriculture; email [EMAIL PROTECTED] website
http://www.fao.org/biotech/.
*GM Contamination Register,
Website*http://www.gmcontaminationregister.org/. GeneWatch UK and
Greenpeace. Intended to be a resource for individuals, public
interest groups and governments. Searchable website gives details of
all the known cases of GM contamination of food, feed, seed and wild
plants that have taken place worldwide. Includes information about,
and links to GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace websites as well as other
useful sites. Contact GeneWatch UK, The Mill House, Manchester Road,
Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 8LN, UK; email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; website http://www.genewatch.org.
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