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ISIS Press Release 14/01/08
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/doublygreenrevolution.php

ISIS Press Release 07/01/08

Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Systematic bias in favour of no adverse impacts from GM feed

I am writing in response to your article defending the ‘new format’ of your Feature on Ermakova’s findings of adverse health and reproductive impacts on rats fed genetically modified (GM) soya, and on the validity of the ‘scientific criticisms’ of her work.

You are still being unfair to Ermakova, especially in allowing the panel of critics in your original Feature2 - all well known for their writings and public appearances if not in declared financial interests to be strongly pro-GM - to have the last word.

You asked for suggestions regarding the format you might use for Features of this kind. The real issue, however, is not the format but the journal’s policy on reviewing. When there is a debate or a controversy about an issue, reviewers must apply the same standards to papers on both sides, and that Chassy et al did not do. They explicitly wrote that Ermakova’s work should be judged by a more rigorous standard because it contradicts earlier work that showed no adverse effects from GM food. Yet the crucial earlier work that they repeatedly cited was indeed, not subjected to same rigorous standard they are demanding for Ermakova’s study; far from it. The same applies to other earlier research purportedly demonstrating that GM food is safe.

Read the rest of this letter here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NatureBiotechnologyLetterErmakova.php



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GM+feed

Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Seeds of Destruction"
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman020108.htm


Informant: Speakingbear

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Agribusiness Giants seek to gain Worldwide Control over our Food Supply

I've noticed that you've got only the first part of Stephen Lendman's book review.

Here's the full article.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7735

Potential Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8148

Unleashing GMO Seeds: "Food is Power"
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's Seeds of Destruction, Part 3.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7849


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=agribusiness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+supply
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=genetically+engineered
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=seeds+of+destruction
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMO+seeds
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=F.+William+Engdahl
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

http://groups.google.com/group/freepage-news/t/4692c538acca4469



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Percy+Schmeiser

Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times: "A proposal that Europe's top environment official made last month, to ban the planting of a genetically modified corn strain, sets up a bitter war within the European Union, where politicians have done their best to dance around the issue."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/122807EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=altered+corn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elisabeth+Rosenthal

In Großbritannien wurde erneut ein Gentest für Embryos bei der künstlichen Befruchtung genehmigt, mit dem man einen Schritt weiter auf das risikofreie Kind geht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/3/100633

Campact-News 29/07 Donnerstag, den 13. Dezember 2007

Im Bundestag gehen die Beratungen über das Gentechnik-Gesetz in die heiße Phase. Machen Sie der Gentechnik-Lobby einen Strich durch die Rechnung: Belagern Sie mit uns den Bundestag! Rund um das Parlament versehen wir möglichst viele Großplakate mit den besten Argumenten gegen Gentechnik in der Landwirtschaft. Steuern Sie Ihr Argument bei und bewerten Sie die Argumente anderer!

Zur Aktion: http://www.campact.de/gentec/sg1/home

Unsere Belagerung wird stark: Die Spenden von über 600 Campact-Aktiven haben uns bereits 40 Großplakate rund um den Bundestag ermöglicht. Herzlichen Dank!


Stefanie Hundsdorfer

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/08/5698/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMO

Erstmals seit 2002 ist in Deutschland wieder ein Freilandexperiment mit genmanipulierten Zuckerrüben geplant. Die Planta GmbH, einer Tochter des deutschen Saatgutkonzerns KWS, hat einen entsprechender Antrag gestellt. Die Gen-Rüben wurden gemeinsam mit dem US-Konzern Monsanto entwickelt.

Die Pflanzen besitzen eine Resistenz gegen Monsantos Totalherbizid Roundup. Aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Studien zufolge führt dieses Pestizid bei Amphibien zu hohen Todesraten und schädigt die menschliche Plazenta. Umweltschäden und erhöhter Pestizideinsatz durch herbizidresistente Gen-Pflanzen sind durch die Erfahrungen anderer Länder hinreichend dokumentiert.

Das Umweltinstitut München ruft alle Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher auf, Protestmails gegen den geplanten Anbau der genmanipulierten Zuckerrüben an die KWS und Landwirtschaftsminister Seehofer zu schicken.

http://www.umweltinstitut.org/genruebe

Unsere Pressemitteilung dazu finden Sie hier: http://umweltinstitut.org/pressemitteilungen/2007/2007_12_05-546.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

ISIS Press Release 04/12/07

When ISIS organised its briefing at European Parliament in June (Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe, SiS 35), we already knew that one of our speakers, Irina Ermakova, has had her funding withdrawn because the results of her experiments (GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile, SiS 33) challenged the claims of the biotech industry that GM food is safe. She has since been the victim of a scandalous attempt to discredit her work by the mainstream journal, Nature Biotechnology (Science and Scientist Abused, SiS 36).

We have now learned that a second member of our panel of scientists, Christian Vélot, has lost his funding.

There is a committee of support for Vélot and they have organised a petition that has already attracted 6000 signatures. You can sign it on line by going to http://sciencescitoyennes.org/spip.php?article1638

Please sign the petition and send the link to your friends. The biotech industry is working very hard to suppress independent science and scientists; we must do all we can to fight it.

A list of the members of the committee is available at http://sciencescitoyennes.org/IMG/pdf/CSvelot3.pdf

Translation of the petition:

Christian Vélot is a lecturer and researcher in molecular genetics at the Université Paris-Sud. Since 2002 he has led a research group in the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology (a joint CNRS-University institute) at the Orsay Scientific Centre. In addition to carrying out his teaching and research, he has devoted some of his own time to meetings on GMOs. These meetings, one of which in particular served as a working document for the GMO activists at the Grenelle de l'Environnement [a series of meetings in October 2007 in which representatives from government, professional associations and NGOs discussed environmental issues].

Read the rest of this article here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/abuseOfScience.php