Publication archives

COMTEX Newswire | November 4, 1999 | By Michael J. Strauss, Bridge News

The Guardian | Paul Brown, Environment Correspondent | November 6, 1999 No genetically modified crops will be grown commercially in Britain until at least the spring of 2003, to allow time for a panel of independent scientists to assess trial plantings and see whether they damage the biodiversity of the wider countryside, Michael Meacher, the environment minister, said yesterday.

Toronto Star | November 6, 1999 | By Stuart Laidlaw GUELPH - Farmers and food executives discussing Europe's bargaining position going into world trade talks later this month in Seattle found themselves, according to this story, in a heated exchange yesterday with a European trade adviser over genetically modified foods.

Philadelphia Inquirer | November 7, 1999 | Michael Zielenziger | KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE TOKYO - The latest threat to American farmers and farm exporters comes from the likes of Toshie Nakamura, a housewife in Tokyo.

Business Week | November 15, 1999 Og Green of Ohio writes that in "Furor over 'Frankenfood'" (News: Analysis & Commentary, Oct. 18) you raise the issue of whether or not labels should be mandatory on genetically modified foods.

Irish Times | November 4, 1999 | Kevin O'Sullivan Scientists who mostly see merit in GM foods have failed to get their message across in the media, in contrast to the considerable success of organisations opposed to biotechnology such as Genetic Concern, according to an Irish academic.

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The Moncton Times and Transcript | November 4, 1999 | David Suzuki (Editor's Note: this is the second in a multi-part series on genetically engineered food.) Suzuki writes that right now, about three million hectares of Canadian farmland are growing crops of plants that have been genetically modified by biotechnology. Do such plants pose dangers to us and our ecosystems?