E. Ann Clark, University of Guelph, Canada E. Ann Clark is an Associate Professor in the department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She wrote this piece in response to a …
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The Excommunication of a Heretic
by Roland Fischer The article below is translated from an original article in the Swiss German-language newspaper WOZ An unusual article was published in the September printed edition of the science magazine “Nature Biotechnology”. The …
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The article below is reprinted from the British magazine Private Eye, No. 1194, 28 September-11 October 2007. The ‘heavy-handed’ libel threats referred to below temporarily closed the GM Watch website this summer. Heavy-handed libel threats …
Continue readingCisgenic Plants: Just Schouten from the Hip?
Allison Wilson and Jonathan Latham Many genetic engineers have long resented the regulatory procedures imposed on transgenic crop plants, often arguing that there is no difference between the risks arising from transgenic plants and plants …
Continue readingTransgene Escape! – But No One Has Called Out the Guards
Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Centre for Food Safety Introduction One route by which transgenes (the genes engineered into crops) may cause harm is by permanently escaping from agricultural environments into wild or natural areas. This …
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