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New law will enforce labelling of contents of GMO foods
Business Day, South Africa - Sep 19, 2008
Labelling of the genetically modified contents of food will become mandatory once the Consumer Protection Bill is implemented, and producers, importers, distributors and retailers will be held liable

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Greenpeace Seeks Ban on GMO Rice in Philippines
Pinoy Press - Sep 19, 2008
Greenpeace today called on the Philippine Senate to enact a legislation to ban the commercialization of genetically-modified rice (GMO) rice.

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Slow Food Nation interview: Andrew Kimbrell
Grist - Sep 19, 2008
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, was the force and vision behind Fatal Harvest. A lawyer by training, he has been investigating the doings of agribusiness for...

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Eu Agriculture Council: Don?t Fall For GMO Hype
Axis of Logic - Jul 7, 2008
As European farm ministers meet today, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and the European Farmers Coordination are stepping up calls for governments not to fall for biotech industry propaganda..

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An Impossible Coexistence: Transgenic And Organic Agriculture
Science Daily - Jul 7, 2008
The cultivation of genetically modified maize has caused a drastic reduction in organic cultivation of this grain and is making their coexistence practically impossible.

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Monsanto on the Menu
Business Week - Jun 20, 2008
Monsanto, the leading producer of genetically modified seeds, has spent years trying to shed its image as a purveyor of Frankenfood.

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Monsanto: still reading blogs
Grist - Jun 20, 2008
Not so long ago, I was an utterly obscure farmer-blogger dashing off indictments of industrial agriculture for some 30 loyal readers (many of them house-mates and relatives).

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U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
Chicago Tribune - May 19, 2008
The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of...

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THE YEAR IN FOOD
San Antonio Current - May 16, 2008
Years from now we?ll know if 2007 is remembered as the year that local food-ism entered the limelight for good, or as the year that Monsanto, simultaneously the world?s largest vegetable seed company

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Figuring Out What's In Your Food
CBS Evening News - May 16, 2008
According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, 53 percent of Americans say they won't buy food that has been genetically modified. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian...

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