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May 9, 2000 / The MEATing Place / Bryan Salvage

ISB News Report / May 2000 Disparaging misinformation suffusing the debate surrounding biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) foods has prompted one scientist to fight back.

PA (PA News) / Sun, May 7, 2000 / By Nick Mead, PA News The BSE epidemic may last longer than previously thought because of a "real risk" that the disease was spread by cow pats from infected cattle, a leading scientist said today.

BBC / Wednesday, 3 May, 2000 US President Bill Clinton has put forward new proposals to regulate genetically-modified (GM) crops and the labelling of foods that claim to be free of gene-altered ingredients.

May 8, 2000 / The Associated Press / Philip Brasher, AP Farm Writer CHICAGO -- Europeans and Japanese don't want gene-altered crops. Frito-Lay, McDonald's and Gerber have rejected them, too. But grocers say, according to this story, that American consumers don't seem to care one way or the other at least not yet.

INDEPENDENT (London) / 4 May 2000 / By Mary Dejevsky in Washington The United States has changed its procedures for the approval of new genetically modified foods and crops in an attempt to fend off consumer resistance at home and importers' resistance abroad.

New York Times / May 4, 2000 / By PHILIP J. HILTS BOSTON, May 3 -- Researchers at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center here failed to report the death of a patient in gene therapy experiments and might have contributed to the growth of cancer in another patient, whose condition was also reported improperly, investigators for the Food and Drug Administration have said.

THATS THE BEST STRATEGY FOR SHOPPERS WHO WANT TO AVOID GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS May 3, 2000 / The Toronto Star / Stuart Laidlaw