Publication archives

May 25, 2000 / Reference No.: 3461 / The Biotechnology Knowledge Centre / MSNBC / Arthur Caplan

By Adrian Croft LISBON, May 30 (Reuters) - European Union and U.S. leaders will try to contain a flare-up in transatlantic trade tensions -- ranging from U.S. tax breaks for exporters to EU policies on bananas and hormone-treated beef -- at a summit on Wednesday.

R-CALF Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund / For Immediate Release May 23, 2000 / Contact: John Lockie 406-252-2516

May 25, 2000 / Western Producer / Barry Wilson Ottawa bureau Columnist Wilson says it is not quite a David and Goliath duel, more like a David and Howard standoff. The David is Suzuki, a renowned Vancouver geneticist, TV host and critic of genetically modified food.

Washington Post / By Adrian Karatnycky The House has voted, and trade relations with China will soon be normalized. But the great debate between advocates of open economic relations and proponents of punitive sanctions avoided the fundamental question: How can we bring about democratic change in the People's Republic of China?

May 25, 2000 / Western Producer / Mary MacArthur Camrose bureau The discovery of a small amount of genetically modified canola growing in European canola fields has Europeans in an uproar and Canadians scratching their heads.

INDEPENDENT (London) / 28 May 2000 / By Geoffrey Lean, Volker Angres and Louise Jury

May 27, 2000 / PA News/Reuters The U.K. government was cited as advising that farmers who have inadvertently planted GM contaminated seeds can either destroy their crop now or harvest it in the knowledge that it cannot be sold.