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PA (PA News) / Thu, May 18, 2000 / By Martin Hickman, Bob Roberts, PA News The Government was today due to make a Commons statement explaining how thousands of acres of farmland were accidentally sown with genetically modified seeds. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown is due to give the statement within the next two hours.

USA Today / By Michael R. Bonsignore During one of my early visits to China, a woman in our Beijing office told me how proud she was to work for a well-known U.S. company. I later learned that she rode a bicycle 10 miles each way to work.

May 17, 2000 / Reuters/PA News LONDON -- The U.K. government was cited as saying in these stories Wednesday that British farmers are unknowingly growing genetically modified crops after buying contaminated oilseed rape from Canada.

The New York Times / ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- The most far-reaching vote any representative will cast this year will take place next week. It will be on the bill to permanently guarantee that Congress will have no economic leverage to restrain China's internal repression of dissidents or external aggression against Taiwan.

May 18, 2000 / The Toronto Star / Stuart Laidlaw, Toronto Star Business Reporter Grocers in Canada have, according to this story, agreed that no products on their shelves will be allowed to be labelled free of genetically modified ingredients until a federal standards board comes up with a uniform code for such labels, a process that is expected to take at least another year.

The New York Times / May 16, 2000 / By ANTHONY DePALMA with SIMON ROMERO

May 17/00 / Reuters/PA News LONDON - Britain's Prince Charles on Wednesday will, according to these stories, warn that the world faces environmental disaster unless it starts accepting that tampering with nature is an affront to God.

May 17/00 / PA News / By Amanda Brown, Environment Correspondent, PA News Friends of the Earth has, according to this story, called for an immediate ban on the outdoor testing of genetically modified oilseed rape and maize after shop-bought honey was found to contain GM pollen.