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Missing vowel competition

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Can you spot the missing vowel in this Washington Post headline?!

Md. Scientists Build Bacterial Chromosome

Scientists in Maryland yesterday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce…

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Too small to be beautiful? Organic Pioneer says No to Nano

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Now that you can drive your ‘nano’ car, listening to your ipod ‘nano’ while wearing ‘nano’ sunscreen and ‘nano’ clothing, the UK’s largest organic certifier has just introduced the perfect nano-antidote - a ‘nano-free’ standard for consumer products. The Soil Association – one of the world’s pioneers of organic agriculture announced today that it is […]

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Cloned Meat Safe! Uncloned Meat Unsafe!

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

On January 15, 2008, these two headlines shared the same Google News page. What’s wrong with this picture?

“F.D.A. Says Cloned Animals Safe to Eat”

and

“188000 Pounds Of Tainted Beef Recalled”

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La Comisión de Medio Ambiente de Brasil rechaza la tecnología Terminator

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Esteriliza las semillas y amenaza la agricultura familiar y las costumbres tradicionales

Este jueves fue desestimado por la Comisión de Medio Ambiente de la Cámara de Diputados, por 15 votos a 4, el Proyecto de Ley 268/2007 —redactado por el diputado federal Eduardo Sciarra (DEM – PR)— que busca modificar la Ley de […]

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Thanks for your solidarity with the Indigenous Gathering of the Americas / Gracias por su solidaridad con el Encuentro Indígena de las Américas

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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Industry Tries to Repeal Brazil’s National Ban on Terminator

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 plants that […]

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Biofuels and Transgenics

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Below you will find a series of articles on biofuels, originally written in Spanish by one of ETC Group’s researchers. (Unfortunately, English translations are not always available). Biofuel production is currently a much-debated topic in Latin America. The prominent farmers’ organizations in the region believe that the production of biofuels will lead to further marginalization […]

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Agrocombustibles y lógicas perversas

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

*Silvia Ribeiro

Una de las muestras más claras de las lógicas perversas del capitalismo es el empuje que desde gobiernos y trasnacionales se da a la producción industrial de agrocombustibles, principalmente etanol y biodiesel. La mayoría de los enunciados de esta campaña -mediática, política y subsidiada con recursos públicos- son falsos. Lo que sí es verdad […]

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Agro-combustibles versus soberanía alimentaria

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Silvia Ribeiro*

Malí, que alojó en febrero 2007 el Foro Mundial de Soberanía Alimentaria “Nyéléni”, es uno de los diez países más pobres del mundo, si se mide en dinero. Sin embargo el país tiene recursos como oro y algodón —del cual es uno de los principales productores del continente—, pero la herencia colonial y las […]

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La locura de los agrocombustibles

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Silvia Ribeiro*

Cada vez más queda más claro que los agrocombustibles no solamente no son una panacea ambiental para enfrentar el cambio climático, sino por el contrario, lo van a empeorar. Al mismo tiempo van sentando las bases para nuevas crisis alimentarias y de escasez de agua, junto a la expulsión de campesinos e indígenas de […]

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