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THE INDEPENDENT, London / 26 March 2000 / BY Geoffrey Lean, Environment Correspondent Ministers want Britons to have the power to sue GM companies, and force them to pay massive damages if they harm health, the environment or livelihoods.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 23 (Reuters) - Farmland Industries said on Thursday it plans to sell its Dubuque, Iowa, pork processing plant to Smithfield Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. pork producer.

Agence France Presse GENEVA, March 27 (AFP) - The first round of World Trade Organisation agriculture talks (WTO) was constructive and showed good hope for the possibility of an accord, WTO director general Mike Moore said on Monday.

Mar. 25 2000 / Reuters SYDNEY -- Genetically engineered canola plants not yet approved for public release in Australia have, according to a report in the Melbounre-based Age newspaper on Sat., been found in a garbage dump near the South Australian city of Mount Gambier, about 375 km (230 miles) west of Melbourne.

Farming is under pressure to produce more, but has less freedom than ever to do so. Shereen El Feki considers how it can rise to new expectations The Economist / March 25, 2000

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Mar. 25 2000 / AP / KATHERINE RIZZO WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Democratic congressman Dennis Eckart, who spent 12 years on Capitol Hill representing Ohio's northeast corner, is, according to this story, in charge of convening sometimes-opposing experts to advise the U.S. Agriculture Department on gene-splicing policy.

The Economist / March 25, 2000