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• Florence Wambugu
  ...d, 29 June 2003, accessed 1 July 2009</ref> But that same weekend Canada's National Post reported: ...agnet_june_28.htm GM crops touted to fight poverty: Sweet potatoes, corn], National Post, p. A22, 28 June 2003, accessed 1 July 2009</ref>
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• Food and Drink Federation: Influence and lobbying
  ...General of the FDF, claims that the FDF is &#39;neither for, nor against, genetic modification in food production&#39;{{ref|13}}. However, whilst posing as a ...o primary producers; food processors and consumers we do not believe that genetic modification per se presents any food safety risk or that foods produced us
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• International Rice Research Institute
  ...n the heavy use of chemical inputs. For these inputs to be taken up by the plant requires conditions of heavy and frequent water use via irrigation. ...aces becoming extinct - some without any seed collection or documentation. Genetic uniformity also increases the vulnerability of monoculture crops to disease
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• Jonathan Jones
  ...ry Laboratory]], using molecular biology and genetics to better understand plant disease resistance with a view to engineering disease resistance genes into ...is appalling how rainforests are cut down, fisheries fished out and water resources are overutilized and polluted. But the solutions require more science, not
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• Ingo Potrykus
  ...sel, where he worked from the mid-1970s. He went on to become Professor of Plant Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, from 1987 to Prior to his retirement, his research group focused on genetic engineering projects aimed at improving yield stability and food quality in
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• David Sainsbury
  ...ember of the cabinet biotechnology committee, [[Sci-Bio]], responsible for national policy on GM crops and foods, and as such was a key adviser to Blair on GM ...er £11 million to the [[Labour Party]]. Mark Seddon, a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, told the BBC, 'In any other country I think a governme
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• Mike Wilson
  ...partment of Virus Research at the [[John Innes Centre]]. His research into plant viruses led to considerable commercial interest and inventorship on five in ...Centre]] and, like a number of other leading GM proponents, is an advisory board member of the anti-environmental [[Scientific Alliance]]. He is also on the
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• Dupont: Influence
  ...which acts as the legislative, regulatory and public affairs voice for the plant biotechnology industry. {{ref|10}} The committee's list of member companies *[[Business Council on National Issues]] (Canada) - Founded in 1976 by the CEOs of US-based [[Imperial Oil]
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• Advanta: Influence / Lobbying
  ...Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB), British Agrochemicals Association (BAA), National Farmers Union (NFU), United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association ( ...nt for many deliberate releases of GM crops in the UK. Advanta have hosted National Seed Listing Trials for GM crops at their Boothby Graffoe test station [39]
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• Bayer: Corporate Crimes
  ...IG Farben]] group. During WWII, IG Farben built a synthetic rubber and oil plant complex called Monowitz close to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Inmates ...[Fritz ter Meer]], a top executive and scientist on the IG Farben managing board.{{ref|219}}
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• Immoral Maize: Extract from Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat by Andrew Rowell
  ...maize genetic diversity. Mexico is the traditional home of corn, where the plant was first domesticated some 10,000 years ago. It is an important crop for a ...ialization of Transgenic Plants, whose report was published in 2002 by the National Academy Press. [4] Both scientists had sprung to prominence in 1988 as two
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• Detlef Bartsch
  * 1990: PhD on plant ecology at the University of Göttingen (Germany) * 1990-92: postdoc at the TU Berlin, Section Ecosystem Science & Plant Ecology with Prof. Herbert Sukopp (Member of the German Central Commission
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• Nothing to declare – GM guide’s two-faced science
  ...boutscience.org.uk/PDF/MakingSenseofGM.pdf Making Sense of GM: What is the genetic modification of plants and why are scientists doing it?]", Sense About Scie ...istance its director, [[Chris Lamb]], from the San Diego, California-based plant biotech company, [[Akkadix]], that he co-founded. According to the letter,
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• Sense About Science
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...an Heap]] are respectively on the Sense About Science advisory council and board of trustees.<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20031203094419/http://www.sen
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• Bioversity International
  ...anizing collecting missions as well as building and expanding genebanks at national, regional and international levels.<ref>"[http://www.bioversityinternationa ...as the IBPGR secretariat. In 1991, IBPGR became the [[International Plant Genetic Research Institute]] (IPGRI), an independently managed and resourced intern
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• Global Crop Diversity Trust
  However, among its funders are genetic modification (GM) corporations [[Syngenta]] and [[DuPont]], which depend on ...dom of access will be ensured by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture:
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• Swine Flu
  ...asonal flu vaccine product containing live bird (avian) flu virus from its plant in in Orth-Donau, Austria. Lab workers in the Czech Republic discovered the ...tion in spite of lots of warning and protesting voices from scientists and national Governments. It did so in the case of the avian flu and again for the swine
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• Doug Powell CV
  Program: Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph January 2003 Department/School:Department of Plant Agriculture
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• SAS - Making Sense of GM
  ...r">Making Sense of GM - Contributors<ref>[http://www.senseaboutscience.org/resources.php/9/making-sense-of-gm 'Making Sense of GM'], ''Sense About Science'', 9 ...ropean consumers' opposition to GM foods has had serious repercussions for plant research, for the commercial development of new crops and, most importantly
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• British charities related to 'Israel' - A-F
  ...the provision of treatment, necessities and facilities, enabling access to resources through referrals, and practical guidance. ACS help to prevent sickness by ...anisations in the Mena region, to increase capacity, skills and additional resources. these organisations will all have a common purpose and ambition, to reliev
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