Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Transcript from Channel 4 News (UK), October 15, 1999 Andrew Veitch reported that biotech companies have invested millions in trying to engineer potatoes, maize and grapes to carry their own insecticides called lectins. That’s one reason for the alarm when Dr.Arpad Pusztai, a world expert on […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Peta Firth, Scientific American, May 1999 British scientist Arpad Pusztai, who was fired last year from the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, and banned from speaking to the press for a while, told a parliamentary select committee on March 8 in London he had no regrets […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: The Lancet, Volume 354, Number 9191, November 13, 1998 Allan Mowat Anthony J FitzGerald, Robert A Goodlad, Nicholas A Wright Peter Lachmann S. W. B. Ewen and A. Pusztai Sean Munro Brian Fenton et al D. C. Kilpatrick Brian Fenton, Kiri Stanley, Steven Fenton, Caroline Bolton-Smith Carl B […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D., June 2001 Scarcity of safety tests How can the public make informed decisions about GM foods when there is so little information about its safety? The lack of data is due to a number of reasons, including: It’s more difficult to evaluate the safety […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Professor Brian Goodwin, scholar in residence, Schumacher College Dr. Stanley Ewen, consultant histopathologist at the University of Aberdeen Medical School Dr. Vyvyan Howard, Head of Research in Fetal and Infant Toxico-Pathology at the University of Liverpool February 14, 1999 “I find Dr. Pusztai’s conclusions to be […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Robert S. Greenberger, The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 1999 WASHINGTON — What do three rabbis, a Roman Catholic priest, a Seventh-day Adventist minister, an Eastern Orthodox cleric and a Buddhist who converted from Judaism have in common? The answer: They all are part of […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: David Barboza, The New York Times, June 3, 2000 CHICAGO, June 3 — Frito-Lay announced in January that it would stop using biotechnology-based corn in its chips. Gerber Products has banned genetically modified ingredients from its baby food. And McDonald’s has asked its suppliers not […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Brandon Mitchener, The Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2002 BRUSSELS — In a vote reflecting deep divisions over biotechnology, the Environment Committee of the European Parliament voted narrowly in favor of more extensive labeling of foods and animal feeds containing genetically modified organisms. The committee voted to […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. California Right to Know, December 1999 We wrote this initiative because we believe people have a fundamental right to know whether the foods they purchase and consume have been genetically engineered. Written in deliberately simple language, the initiative will require the labeling of genetically engineered foods […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Editorial Desk, The New York Times, February 19, 2003 One of the most pervasive chemicals in modern agriculture is a herbicide called glyphosate, which is better known by its trade name, Roundup. When it was first introduced in 1974, by Monsanto, no one could have predicted […]
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