Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Silvia Ribeiro
Es grave e irresponsable el intento de FAO de legitimar los transgénicos como solución al hambre y la crisis climática en el tercer mundo, cuya expresión más reciente es la conferencia Biotecnologías agrícolas en los países en desarrollo (Guadalajara, México, 14 de marzo). Frente a las críticas que van en aumento, los funcionarios de [...]
Monday, December 7th, 2009
It is the mad dash for Copenhagen.
I am leaving Montreal for the international summit tomorrow although the conference actually got underway today. In between urgent emails over the weekend I found the time to take my ten year old daughter and two of her friends to see A Christmas Carol, a Geordie Theatre production of [...]
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro*
La Academia Americana de Medicina Ambiental (AAEM, por sus siglas en inglés), hizo pública en mayo 2009 su posición sobre los alimentos transgénicos. “Por la salud y la seguridad de los consumidores” llaman a establecer urgentemente una “moratoria a los alimentos genéticamente modificados y la implementación inmediata de pruebas independientes y de largo plazo [...]
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro*
El 6 de marzo, el gobierno mexicano anunció que consideraba terminado (en todos los sentidos de la palabra) el marco legal de bioseguridad en México, abriendo las puertas a la experimentación con maíz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético alimentario [...]
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro
Una empresa semillera estadunidense presentó una solicitud para patentar las calabazas. ¿Suena a cuento? Lamentablemente, si la Oficina de Marcas y Patentes de Estados Unidos (USPTO) concede la patente US20080301830, la realidad habrá superado nuevamente a la ficción.
La empresa Siegers Seed Company, con base en Michigan, Estados Unidos, pretende lograr el monopolio sobre todas [...]
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Written for The Ecologist – 20/07/2008
If radical vegan Ingrid Newkirk has her way, the nouvelle cuisine on vegetarian menus in five years time may be a big juicy steak.
Newkirk, founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has offered a $1 million prize to whoever can scale-up stem cell techniques [...]
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Biofuels fuel global food crisis
Toronto Star/star.com July 08, 2008
PAT MOONEY
As G8 leaders meet this week in Japan, their ears will still be ringing from the bombshell dropped last week in a leaked World Bank report declaring that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 per cent, far higher than previously estimated.
The food crisis [...]
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Testimony of Pat Mooney
Executive Director of ETC Group
Before the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources-regarding Bill C-33 (the “Biofuels Bill”)
Senate of Canada
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thank you. I will begin by confessing that I am not an expert on biofuels. I feel as though my life has been hijacked by biofuels over [...]
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Review by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group.
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In October 1996, a spokesman for Monsanto told Farm Journal why his company was buying up seed companies left and right: “What you’re seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain.”
Today, Monsanto is the world’s largest seed [...]
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
In the past, several multinational seed corporations have publicly pledged not to commercialize Terminator seeds – but, not surprisingly, there is intense industry pressure to overturn Brazil’s national law prohibiting suicide seeds. Bill number 268 (2007) in the Brazilian Congress proposes to:
* allow research, registration and patenting of sterile seed technology;
* allow commercialization of Terminator [...]
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