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The Heartland Wrestles With Biotechnology

GMOs in the News: StarLink Corn

GM potato 'could improve child health'

Farmers Grow a Field of Dilemma

Allowing science to guide decisions

Corn could make cotton pests Bt resistant

Gardens 'greater threat than GM'

Modified Crops Raise Fears of Contamination

Super crops: Genes tuned to resist cold and drought

Less Crying in the Kitchen: Tasty, tearfree onions on the horizon - October 19, 2002

Biotech Industry Adopts Precaution - Altered Plants Banned Near Major Food Crops

Cloned Food Products Near Reality

Animal cloning: What is the future? - A UK Government advisory body is calling for stricter controls on GM animals. It says there must be public debate on the matter now, before GM animals arrive on British farms. (September, 2002)

Fears over GM farm animals - September, 2002

GM crops: A bitter harvest? - In 1972, scientists based at Stanford University, California, discovered genetic engineering - at the time its importance was compared with man's discovery of fire. Right from the start, scientists saw both the benefits and dangers in this new science. While genetic engineering might offer the possibility of new cures for diseases, it could also cause epidemics. (June, 2002)

Cloned animals 'safe to eat' - An influential committee of scientists in the USA has declared that eating food made from cloned animals appears to be safe. (August, 2002)

How Consumers Process Information At Heart of Debate Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods - Policy dialogue explores consumer education, international and economic issues around biotech crops
(June 2002)

Three Years Later: Lessons Learned From the Monarch Butterfly Controversy - Paper examines the process used to take science away from politics; possible model for Mexican biotech corn controversy (May, 2002).

BIO Statement Regarding 2002 Planting Estimates for Genetically Modified Crops

Are biotech crops sowing seeds of dispute?

GM talks seek to protect environment

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