GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 46
FROM REVIEW EDITOR, CLAIRE ROBINSON
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We've got a great monthly review for you, full of inspiring and incisive news and reviews.

And GM Watch's monthly reviews are now available for the first time in Portuguese, as well as in Dutch and German. HELP SPREAD THE WORD - we need more volunteer translators.

Resumo Mensal No. 44 - Portuguese version
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8012

Maandoverzicht No. 45 - Dutch version
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8003

Monatsruckblick Nr. 45 - German version
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8025

Claire [email protected]
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MONTHLY REVIEW CONTENTS
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LOST MARKETS
RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
GM HYPE
COMPANY NEWS
CONTAMINATION
GM APPLICATIONS/EXPANSION
PHARMING
GM FAILURES
BIOFUELS
FOOD SAFETY
TECHNO-UTOPIANISM
ENVIRONMENT
GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE
CORPORATE TAKEOVER
DNA RESEARCH
MEDIAWATCH
CORPORATE CRIMES
BIOWARFARE RESEARCH
GM TREES
SYNTHETIC LIFE FORMS
ZOMBIE CROPS

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LOST MARKETS
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+ ATTACK OF THE MUTANT RICE
An excellent report from Fortune magazine on the US rice contamination disaster is at http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8060

EXCERPT: "This is the most traumatic thing I've seen in the rice industry in 30 years," says Darryl Little, director of the Arkansas State Plant Board. "It's been devastating."

+ CANADA: ORGANIC CANOLA FARMERS HAVE LOST OUT OVER GM
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7982

+ CHINESE EXPORTS LOST
A series of unauthorized exports of GM rice protein for use in animal feed, as well as GM rice in noodles and powder sent to Europe and Japan have been found in tests, causing losses for Chinese exporters.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7981

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RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
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+ UK: PROTESTERS MAKE BRITAIN GM-FREE AGAIN
During the night of Friday 6th July, a group of protesters converged on Britain's last remaining GM trial site just outside Cambridge. They scaled the security fences and destroyed the crop of genetically modified potatoes. A similar trial planned in Hull was abandoned earlier this year after a strong campaign and massive concern from nearby farmers. With the destruction of the Cambridge crop, Britain is once again GM free.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8087

+ GM PROGRESS BEING MADE IN EUROPE - MONSANTO CHIEF
Europe is edging slowly towards GM acceptance, according to Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant. GM Watch is not convinced - see above and below.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7952

+ GREECE EXTENDS BIOTECH BAN
Greece has extended for two more years a ban on GM maize seed MON810.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8057

+ CYPRUS WANTS TO BE DECLARED GM-FREE
Cyprus wants to declare itself a GM-free zone, its agriculture minister said. The country has just passed legislation to place GM food on separate supermarket shelves. A previous attempt to introduce such legislation led the US to threaten Cyprus with the WTO.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7974
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8017

+ IRELAND AIMS TO BECOME GM-FREE
In Ireland, following the Green Party agreement to form a coalition government with Fianna Fail, the two parties revealed their policy "to negotiate for the whole island of Ireland to become a GMO-free zone."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8008

+ BRAZIL: JUDGE BANS BAYER'S GM CORN
A federal judge has banned the use of Bayer's GM corn 506285.BY a month after federal biosafety agents approved the product for retail sale. The judge also blocked the official biosafety agency, CTNBio, from approving Monsanto and Syngenta GM corn.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8029
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8065

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