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	<description>Are GM Crops fit for purpose? If not, then what?</description>
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		<title>Royal Society GM groups headed by pro-GM professor</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/royal-society-gm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pro-GM Professor David Baulcombe chaired the Royal Society working group which this week called for genetically-modified crop technology to adopted by the UK.
Professor Baulcombe said: “If we are to take full advantage of the benefits which science can offer to food production, then we must act now, by identifying valuable science technologies, investing in research, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=516&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drought genes to launch for maize</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/drought-genes-to-launch-for-maize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times (12 June, p.7)
A bacterial gene known as cspB is to be used in miaze to give the crop drought tolerance.BASF (Germany) and Monsanto (USA) plan to launch the dorught-hardy corn commercially in 2012.
The Soil Association commented in their press round-up today:
Although the GM industry has said for 25 years that GM crops are needed to feed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=510&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monsanto sponsoring education</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/monsanto-sponsoring-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GM news at www.feedingtheworldconference.org
Eco-sounding &#8212; Seed funding
The Guardian – Society (20 May, p.7)
&#8220;Monsanto may find its crops hard to plant in Britain, but it has found willing partners to plant the seeds of scientific ideas. The British Biochemical Society (BBS) is pleased to announce that it is accepting £113,000 from the Monsanto Foundation &#8211; the philanthropic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=505&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monsanto Sues Germany</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/monsanto-sues-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT, April 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Monsanto Co (MON.N), the world&#8217;s biggest seed company, has filed suit against the German government&#8217;s decision to ban genetically modified (GMO) maize, the company said on Tuesday.
The German government banned the cultivation and sale of GMO maize despite European Union rulings that the biotech grain is safe. [ID:nLE218443]
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		<title>Germany bans Mon810</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/germany-bans-mon810/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany bans Monsanto&#8217;s GM maize
Germany is to ban cultivation and sale of maize with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said on Tuesday. The ban affects MON 810 maize which may no longer be sown for this summer&#8217;s harvest, Aigner told a news conference. Several other European Union countries including France have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=500&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roundup Residues</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/roundup-residues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RELEVANT ITEMS from GM-FREE-CYMRU
Roundup residues in GM food cause cell damage and even death
Citation: Benachour, N. and Seralini, G-E. 2008 Glyphosate Formulations Induce Apoptosis and Necrosis in Human Umbilical, Embryonic, and Placental Cells Chemical Research in Toxicology, DOI: 10.1021/tx800218n Publication Date (Web): December 23, 2008 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx800218n
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Roundup residues interfere with multiple metabolic pathways
Citation: M Malatesta, F [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=497&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GM food safety</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/gm-food-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is quite extraordinary how the complacency within the regulatory / advisory committees in the UK about the safety of GM crops and foods has been transformed into something more akin to a state of denial. First we had the nonsense about &#8220;effects which are statistically significant not necessarily being biologically significant&#8221;; and now we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=491&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GM food opposition &#8216;degenerately immoral&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/degenerately-immoral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Golden Rice board dubs GM-free campaigners &#8216;cranks&#8217;
&#62;Society Guardian (25 Mar, p.9) 
The latest spat between pro- and anti-GM camps is getting nasty. It revolves around Golden Rice, the GM crop that was bio-fortified to produce vitamin A and was ­intended to be rolled out to the world&#8217;s poor many years ago, but hasn&#8217;t got very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=493&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Rice trial scandal</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/golden-rice-trial-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Rice Scandal Unfolds
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins: Phase II clinical trials on children have been conducted with unapproved experimental GM rice enhanced in pro-Vitamin A that has the potential to cause birth defects and developmental abnormalities
Clinical trials of unapproved, uncharacterized GM rice on children
More than 30 senior scientists and academics signed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=487&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK investigates how to feed the world</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/how-to-feed-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent (18 Mar, p.4) 
The Government have commissioned a new study to be led by Professor John Beddington, the Government&#8217;s Chief Scientific Officer, and carried out by the Foresight Institute, a science and technology think-tank that looks into long-term issues for the Government.
The group&#8217;s remit &#8211; how to feed a world population which could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=485&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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