Publication archives

PA News | November 8, 1999 | Stephen Howard, PA News Monsanto was cited as continuing its legal battle today against environmental campaigners who uprooted their plants at trial sites. The company is, the story says, appealing against a High Court decision not to grant an immediate order banning six members of genetiX snowball from their farms.

Kansas City Star | November 7, 1999 | SCOTT CANON LUBBOCK, Texas - At the center of gleaming government laboratories in Lubbock, tucked into petri dishes nurturing man-made sprouts, coursing through roots of genetically engineered seedlings, lives an idea.

New York Times | November 8, 1999 Aisha Ikramuddin of New York, a senior research associate at Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet, writes that a Nov. 3 front-page article highlights the inadequate regulation of genetically engineered crops and the environmental harm that may result.

Reuters | November 8, 1999 BRUSSELS - According to this story, Europe's highest court will on Tuesday hear the arguments in a dispute over whether France had the legal right to freeze the authorisation of three strains of genetically modified (GM) maize.

New York Times | November 4, 1999 Washington - Six weeks after an 18-year old Arizona man died unexpectedly in a gene therapy experiment, the field's safety record is coming under increasing scrutiny and new information is coming to light about patients who may have been harmed in other clinical trials.

The Charlottetown Guardian | November 8, 1999 | Letter to the Editor

PA News | November 4, 1999 | By Eileen Murphy, Consumer Affairs Correspondent Exports of British meat and bonemeal (MBM) for use in cattle feed continued to non-European Union countries for nine years after links between BSE and this foodstuff were uncovered, a public inquiry said today.

National Farmers Union News Release | November 9, 1999 | Contact: Erika Batcheller (202) 314-3104 WASHINGTON - A rumored merger between agribusiness giants Monsanto and Novartis is yet another example of the need for Congress to pass today an 18-month moratorium on mergers in agriculture, the National Farmers Union (NFU) said.