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		<title>Feeding our schoolchildren</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy school dinners for the chop?
 Five years after the outcry over Turkey Twizzlers, Rebecca Smithers reports on how far we have come with school meals and the worry that progress might stall if budgets for ingredients are cut.
The Guardian (Education, 15 Dec, frontpage) 
Food for Life Partnership 
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		<title>GM editorial in The Guardian</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/gm-editorial-in-the-guardian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["...illustrating the monopolistic ambitions of agribusiness and ultimately, perhaps, its ability to control the very food we eat..."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=530&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GM seed costs soar</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/gm-seed-costs-soar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report published today (3 Dec) shows that GM seed prices in America have increased dramatically, compared to non-GM and organic seeds, cutting average farm incomes for US farmers growing GM crops.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=523&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soil Association call for GM labels</title>
		<link>http://feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/soil-association-call-for-gm-labels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soil Association calls for compulsory labelling of food from GM crops in light of new FSA research<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feedingtheworldconference.wordpress.com&blog=4976259&post=521&subd=feedingtheworldconference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></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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http://www.gmfreecymru.org/pivotal_papers/crucial11.htm
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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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