GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 54 (3/3/2008)

GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 54
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.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=93&page=1

Claire [email protected]
www.gmwatch.org / www.lobbywatch.org

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MONTHLY REVIEW CONTENTS
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NEW FILM & BOOK
NEW RESEARCH
HEALTH HAZARDS
SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP OF SCIENTISTS
SCIENTIFIC MISREPRESENTATION
RESISTANCE/BANS/RESTRICTIONS ON GM
GM EXPANSION/APPROVALS
AUSTRALIAN STATES' GM BANS
HYPE & LIES
GM FAILURES
LABELING
CONTAMINATION
MARKER ASSISTED BREEDING
CLONING
GENETIC CROSSROADS

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NEW FILM & BOOK
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+ EXPLOSIVE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MONSANTO
Coming soon... an explosive documentary about Monsanto by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin. Le Monde Selon Monsanto (The World According to Monsanto) is due to be broadcast on the Franco-German TV channel ARTE on 11 March (we think at 21.00 hrs, French time) and is already scheduled to go out on about 12 other channels worldwide. Filmed in the Americas, Europe and Asia, it looks at Monsanto's toxic record of PCBs, Agent Orange, rBGH, and GMOs. Marie-Monique Robin's book of the film is also coming soon. Lots more info and quotes at
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8811

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NEW RESEARCH
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+ NON-GM COTTON MORE PROFITABLE
A multi-year study of GM and non-GM cotton cultivation in the US shows all types of GM cotton failed to give a better return than non GM cotton varieties.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8797

+ PESTS EVOLVE RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS
The bollworm - the insect pest that's supposed to be killed by GM Bt cotton - has developed Bt resistance and is beginning to spread in parts of the US, a scientific study has found.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8736
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8737
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8794

+ HERBICIDE-RESISTANT GENES FOUND TO PERSIST IN WEEDS
More on previously reported research conducted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists which found that herbicide-resistant genes escaping from GM canola into weedy relatives persisted over a 6-year period.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8778

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HEALTH HAZARDS
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+ HEALTH HAZARDS OF GM FOODS - GOOD SUMMARY
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8801

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SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP OF SCIENTISTS
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+ US SUPPRESSES AND FALSIFIES SCIENCE
Leading US scientists have called on Congress to make sure the next president does not do what they say the Bush Administration, and others before it, have done: censor, suppress and falsify important environmental and health research.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8773

+ USA: MONSANTO UNIVERSITY
Public-university researchers get cash for studying GMOs - and the shaft for studying organic agriculture, says an incisive article.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8789

+ SHANE BARKING WHILE COLLEAGUES MUZZLED
Shane Morris - the Canadian Government science bureaucrat with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - is still hard at work lobbying for GMOs in Ireland. By contrast, the public pronouncements of other Canadian government scientists seem to be tightly controlled, requiring approval from the top. For instance, Climatologist Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria, who works closely with several Environment Canada scientists, says, 'They've been muzzled. The concept of free speech is non-existent at Environment Canada. They are manufacturing the message of science.'
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8748

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SCIENTIFIC MISREPRESENTATION
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+ SHAME ON 'WORMY' RESEARCH
Times Higher Education recently reported on a letter to the British Food Journal signed by 40 scientists demanding the retraction of the discredited Shane Morris/Doug Powell 'wormy' corn research. The research purported to show that consumers preferred GM to non-GM sweetcorn but omitted to mention a sign calling the non-GM corn 'wormy'! Prof Peter Saunders comments in a letter to THE: 'The paper describing the work should not be allowed to remain in the literature, yet the authors refuse to withdraw their paper, offering instead less and less plausible accounts of what happened to the sign.'
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8807

+ NEW REPORT - PROPAGANDA DRESSED UP AS SCIENCE
The Open University (OU) and the Economic and Social Research Council have been slamme


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