Publication archives

Dec 1, 1999

Antibiotech Effort Bloomed Despite Little Funding and Lack of Consensus

Wall Street Journal | November 30, 1999 | By STEVE STECKLOW, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It was a chance meeting in Washington 13 years ago that led Benedikt Haerlin to take up the fight against bioengineered food.
Dec 1, 1999

Within the FDA, A Dispute on Food

Philadelphia Inquirer | November 30, 1999 Some scientists disagreed with the agency's stance that genetically modified food need not be tested. By Andrea Knox, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Dec 1, 1999

Biotech Foods

Associated Press | November 30, 1999 | By PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON - Consumer groups urged federal regulators Tuesday to require labeling of foods that contain genetically modified ingredients and to tighten the approval process for biotech crops, but the food industry fears such labels would unfairly stigmatize the products.
Dec 1, 1999

Cargill Eyeing Non-GM Soy for European Customers

Reuters | November 30, 1999 | By Greg Frost
Dec 1, 1999

Out of Africa: Developing Countries Fear Europeans Will Thwart Biotech Solutions to Low Yields

Farm Journal | November 1999 | Patricia Peak Klintberg
Dec 1, 1999

Alphabet Soup; GMOs Have Farmers Wondering about Bt, LL and RR

Farm Journal | November 1999 | Greg D. Horstmeier Ordering seed is, according to this story, tough enough, what with the sheer number of selections, seed giveaways, discount programs and new theories on seed sizing. Suddenly all that has been compounded by uncertainty over the status and market value of grain from genetically modified (GM) seeds.
Dec 1, 1999

Seeds of Discontent: Plant Biotech and World Trade

CNN | November 29, 1999 | Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Nov 30, 1999

WTO, Agricultural Deregulation and Food Security

by
Sophia Murphy
Published in Foreign Policy In Focus, Volume 4, Number 34, December 1999. Can deregulated world markets ensure food security for the world? No negotiator of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could honestly say that this was the first intent of the agreement. Yet, the AoA preamble lists food security as one of the legitimate "non-trade" objectives of agriculture policy.