Publication archives

Wall Street Journal | December 28, 1999 | By STEVE STECKLOW and MATT MOFFETT, Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JULIO DE CASTILHOS, Brazil - Along Brazil's remote southern border with Argentina, a battle over contraband is raging.

Reuters | December 21, 1999

Washington Times | December 22, 1999

Associated Press | December 27, 1999 | BLAKE NICHOLSON BISMARCK, N.D. - Charles Ottem would, according to this story, love to see the barley in his fields be immune to disease, but brewing companies worry that beer drinkers might be turned off if genetic engineering made that possible.

Kyodo World Service | December 30, 1999 | By: Rieko Saito TOKYO - Many people in the Waseda district of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward are joining a campaign called the "My Tofu" project, organized by shopkeepers promising to provide fresh bean curd every week made exclusively from organically grown soybeans.

Agence France Presse | December 21, 1999

Reuters | December 27, 1999

Los Angeles Times | December 31, 1999 | By PAUL JACOBS, Times Staff Writer Worldwide protests against genetically engineered crops are on the rise. America's trading partners are calling for labeling of foods that contain ingredients from genetically modified plants. Federal regulators are reexamining the rules for assuring the safety of biotech foods.