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By PHILIP BRASHER / The Associated Press / 4/26/00 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Environmental groups asked the government Wednesday to withdraw its approval of genetically engineered squash because of concerns that it could cross with a wild relative and make it a hardier weed.

Shows Retail Food Price Have Dramatically Increased Over Last 25 Years While Farm Prices Have Declined NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION / Contact: Keith Dittrich, 402-368-7786, [email protected]

Do we know enough about genetically modified foods? Consumers Union / 04.21.00 [as published in Grist Magazine]

April 21, 2000 / USDA - ARS News Service / Judy McBride, (301) 504-1628, [email protected] By 2050, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is expected to be twice preindustrial levels. And research shows that extra CO2 in the atmosphere stimulates growth and increases yield in a variety of food and fiber crops.

April 25, 2000 / By ANDREW POLLACK / The New York Times

by Daniel C. Grant / Illinois Agri News / Friday April 21, 2000

April 24, 2000 / Winnipeg Free Press / Helen Fallding, Regional Reporter BRANDON -- Canola farmers nervous about consumer aversion to genetically altered food may, according to this story, seed slightly more land with conventional varieties this year, but they are not abandoning the new technology.

By Ramesh Jaura BONN, Apr 13 (IPS) - Germany's development ministry has initiated a process of intensive consultation with non-governmental organisations, researchers and scientists in a concerted bid to help ensure global food security.