Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: David Safford, BNA Daily Report for Executives, No. 230, November 29, 2000 A top executive with biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. on Nov. 27 conceded that the company’s “arrogant” and “insensitive” approach in developing genetically modified foods has hurt its image, and vowed to change its business practices. […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Industry News, ISB Newsletter, June, 1998 It seems to get harder and harder to write about the business side of agricultural biotechnology without discussing Monsanto in one way or another. This month is no exception. In fact, in a flurry of recent activity, Monsanto has further strengthened […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Marc Kaufmann, Washington Post, March 8, 2001 The Agriculture Department will spend up to $20 million this year to compensate seed companies for corn mixed with an unapproved genetically modified variety — the first direct federal bailout of food producers harmed by biotechnology. Using funds […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Washington Post, September 17, 1999 Editorial THE HULLABALLOO in Europe about genetically engineered foods is starting to spill over into American markets — not in consumer opinion but in strategic choices being made by American producers. The giant commodity buyer Archer Daniels Midland, faced with the combined […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mecury News, Febrary 17, 2000 PACIFIC GROVE — The genetic-research pioneers who 25 years ago warned of public-health and environmental catastrophes if their science went awry are debating a new threat: rampant commercialization and carelessness. A quarter-century after they first gathered […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Press Release DuPont October 1, 1999 Contact: Susan Gaffney DuPont 302-774-2698 WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 1 – DuPont today announced the completion of the stock and cash merger with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Earlier today Pioneer shareholders approved the merger in which DuPont acquired the 80 percent […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Press Release British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) National Bee Keeping Centre Royal Agricultural Show Ground Stoneleigh, Warwickshire CV8 2LG 02476 696679 September 20, 2002 For further information/comment contact: Glyn Davies (Chairman BBKA): 01364 652640 or 07711200911 Ivor Davis (Vice-Chairman BBKA): 01934 832825 or 07831 379222 There is […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Tim Todd, Bridge News, March 31, 2000 San Diego–Mar 29–A coalition of seven, competing biotechnology companies is poised within the next several days to launch an unprecedented multi-media, multi-million dollar advertisement campaign to better explain the controversial genetically modified organisms (GMO) technology, a member of the organization […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Souce: Financial Times Canada, October 3, 2001 LEVERKUSEN, Germany, – Bayer AG said on yesterday it was buying Aventis’s CropScience unit for 7.25 billion euros (US$6.63-billion), including 1.9 billion euros in debt, vaulting it to number two in the global agrochemicals market. Analysts said the deal, which […]
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Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Marcia Barinaga, March 3, 2000, Science, Volume 287, Number 5458, pp. 1584 – 1585 A conference last month asked whether the “Asilomar process” could help to resolve today’s biotech controversies PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA–The Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA was the Woodstock of molecular biology: a defining […]
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