GM WATCH MONTHLY REVIEW No. 43 FROM REVIEW EDITOR, CLAIRE ROBINSON Claire [email protected] www.gmwatch.org / www.lobbywatch.org
A review of a pretty momentous month.
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GM MOSQUITOES CAMPAIGNS OF THE MONTH HEALTH EFFECTS OF GMOs / FOOD SAFETY GM BANS / RESTRICTIONS BIOFUELS PHARMA CROPS ALTERNATIVES TO GM CORPORATE TAKEOVER CORPORATE CRIMES CONTAMINATION GM POTATOES ANIMAL BIOTECH RESISTANCE LOBBYWATCH COMPANY NEWS LABELLING NEW BOOK
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+ GM MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA Superb article by the evolutionary biologist Christophe Boete on the limitations of GM mosquitoes. Boete researches evolutionary ecology at the Institut de recherche pour le developpement-Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Montpellier, and is editor of the book, 'Genetically Modified Mosquitoes and Malaria Control'. More of Boete's papers available at http://cboete.free.fr/publications.html
Article on GM mosquitoes and malaria at http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7719
+ GM MOSQUITOES NO SILVER BULLET The media has been full of reports hailing a GM mosquito as the means of eliminating malaria. But Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, who leads the research at Johns Hopkins, has been far more guarded, as has Hillary Hurd, a parasitologist at Keele University in the UK, on whose research findings the John Hopkins team drew.
Hurd cautions that the malaria-causing parasites used by the Johns Hopkins team infect mice, not humans. The human applications are still unknown. And Jacobs-Lorena says, 'Transgenic mosquitoes by themselves will never be able to solve the problem. The only way is to use a combination of approaches... No one should think of this as a silver bullet.' http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7672
+ INDIAN PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS WARN AGAINST GM MOSQUITOES Indian public health experts are not excited by the news that American scientists have created GM mosquitoes to help fight malaria, saying it had been tried in India in the past and abandoned as a failure. Said P. K. Rajagopalan, a scientist who was associated with the aborted Indo-US project, 'Uncontrolled release of GM organisms to wipe out traditional mosquitoes ... raises serious questions on ecosystems and public health.' He added that he did not rule out the possibility of released GM insects becoming carriers of a human disease 'they were never before able to transmit'. He also said he hoped India did not 'once again become a testing ground for this dubious technology.' http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7685
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+ *URGENT* - TELL FDA: NO FOOD FROM CLONES! The US Food and Drug Administration needs to hear you don't want food from animal clones - a public comment period originally until April 2 has now been extended so there is STILL TIME TO COMMENT. http://ga3.org/campaign/Cloning
+ SIGN THE MILLION-SIGNATURE PETITION AGAINST GM RICE Go to the 'Week of Rice Action' - WORA - webpage and sign on to show your support via http://www.panap.net
+ BERKELEY: DON'T SIGN THE BP DEAL! Sign the petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/147963846
+ SIGN GLOBAL APPEAL AGAINST PATENTS ON SEEDS http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=39
+ HELP STOP POLAND'S GMO ACT Please ask Polish Parliamentarians and Senators to reject the proposed new GMO Act, which allows for the planting of commercial GM crops in GM-free zones. http://icppc.pl/pl/gmo/open_letter.php
+ SIGN PETITION AGAINST GM POTATO TRIALS IN YORKSHIRE, UK http://www.hedonagainstgm.org.uk/
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+ NEW STUDY SHOWS GM MAIZE CAUSES LIVER AND KIDNEY TOXICITY A study has been released showing that Monsanto used incomplete data to obtain approval of its GM maize MON863 and that laboratory rats fed with the maize showed kidney and liver toxicity.
The study, published in the journal 'Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology', analysed results of safety tests submitted by Monsanto when the company was seeking authorisation to market the maize. The data shows that MON863 poses sign
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