Was 2009 the year the world turned against GM?

By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews

11th January, 2010

Despite promising the world in 2009, biotech corporations have increasingly raised the hackles of scientists and citizens worldwide

2009 was a year in which the biotech industry, Gates and their US Administration allies did everything in their power to drive the world down the GM road, but it was also a year marked by remarkable global resistance.

It was a year too in which the truth emerged more clearly than ever about not just the severe limitations and risks of GM crops, but the viability of the many positive alternatives to GMOs alternatives from which the profit-driven GM-fixation diverts much needed attention and resources.

The scene had been set in 2008 with the IAASTD report, produced by 400 scientific experts and signed up to by some 60 governments. That made it clear that after more than 10 years of commercialisation, GM crops had done nothing to help with the eradication of hunger or poverty, or the reversal of the environmental degradation caused by agriculture.

The IAASTD instead championed as the way forward: agro-ecological farming; and research conducted by the UN Environment Programme also suggested organic, small-scale farming could deliver increased yields without the accompanying environmental and social damage of industrial farming. The UNEP's analysis of 114 projects in 24 African countries found that yields had more than doubled where organic, or near-organic practices had been used. In 2009 the contribution of such sustainable approaches to cooling the planet was also widely acknowledged while news of Monsanto's attempts to dress up environmentally destructive GM monocultures as climate friendly earned it a worst lobbying award.

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Three Approved GMO's linked to organ damage

Three approved Monsanto's GM corn varieties have been linked to organ damage according to what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study in the effects of GMO's conducted by the CRIIGEN and Universities of Caen and Rouen.

Read the complete article at:

http://www.truthout.org/article/three-approved-gmos-linked-organ-damage

Check the complete sstudy of the "Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health" at:

http://www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm

FACTS ARE CLEAR, SAY NO TO GMO!!


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SIKANDA says NO! to GMO corn

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Greenpeace protests against GMO corn in Mexico

October 20, 2009 -- Updated 1222 GMT (2022 HKT)

By Arthur Brice CNN


(CNN) -- Mexico saw the first public protests this weekend over the government's decision to allow cultivation of the first genetically modified corn, which environmentalists and others say could ruin the nation's native crop.

To read the complete article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/20/greenpeace.mexico/index.html

Mexican government approved GMO corn test-plantings

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 18 (CNN.com) -- The Mexican government recently has approved 35 requests to test-plant genetically modified (GM) corn, said a government statement.

Still in the test stage, the approved GM corn planting will be confined to closed areas and is subject to the country's ecological security laws, said the departments of agriculture and environment in the statement.

All related governmental agencies will strictly monitor the planting to make sure it confirms to the law, said these two departments.

However, several Mexican environmental protection groups along with Greenpeace, an international nongovernmental organization for environmental conservation, oppose the planting, warning it would endanger the country's ecological diversity.

Mexican farmers also have staged several protests, calling for a ban on GM planting so that more than 200 corn varieties in Mexico will not be threatened.

It is reported that the Mexican government will for the time allocate 194 hectares of land in six states to plant GM corn crops.