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GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 48
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FROM REVIEW EDITOR, CLAIRE ROBINSON
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Please tell all your non-English speaking friends about our past Monthly Reviews in Portuguese, Dutch and German.
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Claire
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MONTHLY REVIEW CONTENTS
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PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL
RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
GM APPLICATIONS/EXPANSION
GM REGULATORY FIASCO IN INDIA
RICE CONTAMINATION
GM FAILURES
GENE THERAPY
TECHNO-UTOPIANISM
BIOFUELS
COMPANY NEWS
CORPORATE CRIMES
DUBIOUS PHILANTHROPY
NON-GM SUCCESSES
GM BIOHAZARDS
REVIEWS

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PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL
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+ PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL
The GM Watch website was recently forced offline for nearly a week as a result of legal threats over this article calling for an award winning scientific paper to be retracted
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8216

Read our response to AgBioView's attack on GM Watch over the issue
PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL - PART ONE
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8228

PROPAGANDA, FRAUD AND LIBEL - PART TWO
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8240

MORE ABOUT THE CONTROVERSY
Biotech Canada SLAPP Scandal
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BiotechCanadaSLAPPScandal.php

Canada attacks Ireland's policy on GM crops
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/morris/index.php

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RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
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+ ISLAMIC SCHOLAR SAYS TRADE IN GM FOODS IS 'CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY'
In Qatar, the prominent Islamic scholar Ali Mohyeedin al-Qurradaghi has called upon dealers and consumers to boycott companies trading in tainted commodities and GM foods, saying that cheating in these goods is a 'crime against humanity' that should be strictly dealt with. He blamed the rise in cancer cases around the world on what he called 'commercial cheating'. 'According to the Holy Qur'an, cheats who aim to ruin the health of others by their harmful practices should be put to death in public,' he said in a sermon.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8237

QUOTE FROM THE QU'RAN: 'Eat and drink of that which Allah has provided and do not act corruptly, making mischief on the earth.' (2:60)

+ U.S. TURNS AGAINST GM GROWTH HORMONE MILK
The recent announcement by Kroger stores to prohibit the GM growth hormone rbST/rBGH from its private label milk brand is part of a nationwide trend among dairy processors, retailers and farmers, says a report for MinutemanMedia.org. Starbucks, Tillamook, Safeway and Chipotle Restaurants have already begun to discontinue the hormone and California Dairies, Inc., which produces nearly 10 percent of the nation's milk, announced it went rbST-free August 1. The companies affirm that the chief impetus for its actions comes from rising consumer demand for hormone-free dairy products.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8219

+ U.S. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION REJECTS MONSANTO'S CLAIM ON MILK ADS
The Federal Trade Commission has rejected Monsanto's claim that milk ads using the terms 'free of artificial growth hormones' or 'rBGH-free' are misleading. The decision was announced in the same week that Starbucks agreed to stop using Monsanto's GM supplement. The ruling means ads like this one from Borden did not make misleading claims about the safety of the growth hormone.

'We work exclusively with farmers that supply 100 percent of our milk from cows that haven't been treated with artificial hormones,' the Borden ad says. 'So, who do you trust when it comes to your family's milk?'

Under FDA policy, food companies are allowed to claim on labels that they do not use rBST, as long they do not 'mislead consumers' to believe milk from cows without rBST is safer or of higher quality.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8232

+ CANADA: ORGANIC FARMERS SEEK SUPREME COURT HEARING
Papers have been filed with the Supreme Court of Canada by the Saskatchewan organic farmers seeking leave to appeal the May 2007 Saskatchewan Appeal Court decision which denied them class action status in their GM liability suit against Monsanto Canada and Bayer CropScience.

Applicants Larry Hoffman and Dale Beaudoin are seeking compensation for the loss of canola as a certified organic crop due to the contamination of canola seed by GM varieties belonging to Monsanto and Bayer. If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the appeal, and it is successful, the case will be certified as a Class Action under Saskatchewan's Class Actions Act, allowing the farmers to go to trial on these issues.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8236

+ AUSTRALIA: BAN ON GM CANOLA MUST STAY
The Biological Farmers Australia group has lodged a submission requesting the continuation of the moratoria on GM crops. Their submission has gone to the SA, NSW & Victorian governments which are reviewing the moratoria prohibiting the planting of GM canola. A summary of the submission is at:
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8214

Greenpeace Australia Pacific's submission to the NSW government over the review of the moratorium draws on statistics from countries that have introduced GM crops, with disastrous consequences to their economies. The submission is at:
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8226

+ GM SEEDS TO BE PROHIBITED IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
GM seed will be prohibited for cultivation, sale or import in Western Australia under new laws introduced this week by agriculture minister Kim Chance. 'WA's GM-free status is providing benefits to WA farm