Publication archives

Don Puder / The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho / April 17, 2000 Apr. 17--Consumers want labeling, according to Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, citing data from a poll she commissioned from Wirthlin Worldwide in which 78 percent of consumers endorse the concept.

THE GUARDIAN, London / Saturday April 22, 2000 / Paul Brown, Environment correspondent Refusal to accept genetically modified fish as food was a rich man's stance that would be a "terrible mistake, a moral mistake", the president of a US company expecting to market GM salmon said yesterday.

April 21, 2000 / from a press release

April 22, 2000 / Knight-Ridder Tribune / Sonya Colberg, Tulsa World, Okla.

April 22, 2000 / Knight-Ridder Tribune / Sonya Colberg, Tulsa World, Okla. More Americans are, according to this story, cheerfully shelling out an average 20 percent premium for foods grown organically, and some consumers are even choosing to pay as much as 110 percent more for organically grown produce. What are they getting for their money?

South China Morning Post / Monday, April 17, 2000 / CHEUNG CHI-FAI More than 6,000 people have signed a Greenpeace petition urging the Government to introduce a labelling system on genetically modified food. The green group said yesterday it hoped to collect at least 40,000 signatures before early May when a government forum on labelling is to be held.

April 17, 2000 / The Kitchener-Waterloo Record / Jim Romahn Both Small Fry Snack Foods of Kitchener and Hostess-Frito Lay of Cambridge have, according to columnist Romahn, told potato farmers they won't buy new varieties that incorporate a gene that produces Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), one of the safest insecticides available.

THE SECOND COMING IN WASHINGTON D.C. YOUTHS' INSURGENCE AGAINST GLOBALIZATION By Roger Burbach Washington D.C. April 20, 2000