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Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association: In the nearly 20 years of intensifying exposure, scientists have been documenting the health consequences of Roundup and glyphosate in our food, in the water we drink, in the air we breathe and where our children play. The results are not good.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/28856-monsanto-s-roundup-enough-to-make-you-sick



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Info Karlheinz Croissant/ 68782 Brühl den 02.06.2010

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Der Venter-Code: Wenn Forscher Gott spielen

Was Gott kann, kann der Mensch noch besser, scheinen manche Genforscher zu denken. Hybris ist bei Biochemikern wie Craig Venter verbreitet. Er hat nun erstmals ein künstlich erzeugtes Genom in eine Bakterie gesetzt und damit primitives Leben geschafft, ein fortpflanzungsfähiges Bakterium. Das Entstehen von Leben scheint entzaubert. Der Mann, der das Genom entschlüsselte, hat sich den nächsten Traum erfüllt. Er hat Leben geschaffen, synthetisches Leben. Und Creg sah, dass es gut war. Zumindest für seine Karriere. Ob er Gott spielt? "Quatsch", sagt Venter. Den gibt es doch gar nicht. Dafür 3,6 Milliarden Jahre Evolution. Höchste Zeit, die Sache selbst in die Hand zu nehmen und alles besser zu machen. "Creatura non potest creare", warnte einst Augustinus: "Das Geschöpf kann nicht schöpfen". Künstler aber träumen seit Jahrhunderten davon, Gott zu spielen - oder sogar zu übertreffen. So sah schon Leonardo da Vinci sein Werk: eine Schöpfung für die Ewigkeit und der göttlichen Schönheit überlegen.

Automatenfiguren, Wachsgestalten, Androiden: Künstliche Fantasiewesen sind immer etwas unheimlich. Lebende Maschinen - ein Widerspruch in sich. Was Künstler nur erdachten, scheint die Wissenschaft jetzt zu vollenden: schöpferische Allmacht ganz ohne Romantik und jenseits von Ethik und Moral. Gene sind Software, Zellen sind Hardware, Leben ist Information. Das ist das Glaubensbekenntnis des Craig Venter. Was der Mensch kann, das darf er auch. Es geht nicht um Zucht, sondern um Design. Optimiertes Leben: Warum eigentlich nicht?

Gesprächsgast in der Kulturzeit am 02.06.2010: war Giovanni Maio, Medizinethiker



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Gen-Papst Craig Venter hat es wieder mal geschafft: Seinem Team ist es gelungen, eine Zelle mit einem künstlich erzeugten Genom zu steuern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32660/1.html



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Artificial Life: Have Scientists Created A Monster?

The creation of a living being in a laboratory by scientific showman Craig Venter is one of the staples of science fiction. Now it is a scientific fact. Yesterday's announcement of the birth of a 'synthetic cell' - made by injecting a bacterium shell with genetic material created from scratch by scientists - raises many questions. Depending on your viewpoint, it is either a powerful testament to human ingenuity or a terrible example of hubris - and the first step on a very dangerous road. The potential is huge - but so are the dangers. It is possible to imagine a synthetic microbe going on the rampage, perhaps wiping out all the world's crop plants or even humanity itself. Synthetic biology also challenges our most cherished notions of what life itself actually is. Non-scientists might not realise that we have, as yet, no proper definition of life. it is hard to escape the feeling that a boundary has been crossed. The problem is, it is far from clear where we go from here.

Michael Hanlon, Daily Mail

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Craig Venter announces the world's first synthetic life form
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9615/

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Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study

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Hot off the press GMO research study shows alarming birth defects, sterility, and infant deaths in animals fed this food commonly found in human diets. Why has this food been dumped in the EU, yet not in the US?

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Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells – A GMO Nightmare!

Barbara H. Peterson on April 18th, 2010

A paper published earlier this year reports that T-DNA can be transferred to the chromosomes of human cancer cells…The paper shows that human cancer cells along with neuron and kidney cells were transformed with the Agrobacterium T-DNA. Such observations should raise alarm for those who use Agrobacterium in the laboratory [for genetic modification].

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Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Beverly Bell, Truthout: "'A new earthquake' is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto's seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation's presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day."

http://www.truthout.org/haitian-farmers-commit-burning-monsanto-hybrid-seeds59616



Haitian Farmers Resist GM Crops

Beverly Bell, Truthout: "In part II of an interview, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste discusses the role that agriculture can play in Haiti in addressing both the environmental and food crises. Jean-Baptiste is the executive director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP)."

http://www.truthout.org/haiti-addressing-both-environmental-and-food-crises59816



Groups Around the US Join Haitian Farmers in Protesting "Donation" of Monsanto Seeds

Beverly Bell, Truthout: "'We're for seeds that have never been touched by multinationals. In our advocacy, we say that seeds are the patrimony of humanity. No one can control them,' said Doudou Pierre, national coordinating committee member of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA), in a recent interview. 'We reject Monsanto and their GMOs. GMOs would be the extermination of our people.'"

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Zwar wird mit den transgenen Pflanzen ein Schädling bekämpft, nach einer Studie chinesischer Wissenschaftler gedeiht dafür aber ein anderer - mit Folgen für viele Pflanzenarten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32629/1.html



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by Jeffrey Smith

"This study was just routine," said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry. After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Smith/jeffrey130.htm



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