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WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57
RESULT IN ON PERCY SCHMEISER CASE
There's both bad and good news from the Canadian Supreme Court case in
which Monsanto sued Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser for stealing its
patented genes when his canola crop was found to be contaminated with GM
Roundup Ready traits.

The bad news is that the court has upheld the Monsanto's right to have a
patent on a plant and has found Percy guilty of infringing its patent.
This decision sets a dangerous precedent for justice in that it upholds
the patentability of crops and seems to uphold the fact that Monsanto
can claim ownership and rewards even over unintentional pollution.

The good news is that the court has not upheld that Percy should pay
damages because he did not profit from the GM technology by spraying
Roundup. Both parties have to pay their own court costs.
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3607

See Percy's response at http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3616

GRAIN comments: "...the Supreme Court decision could trigger a major
backlash against Monsanto. The true face of the "gene revolution" and of
the control handed to transnational corporations through patents on life
has been laid bare." http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3616

+ TELL MONSANTO WHERE TO GO!
If you think your property may have GM canola lurking somewhere (or GM
maize or soy or cotton), tell Monsanto where to go! Take action! Send a
letter to Monsanto warning them that their GM seeds may be trespassing
on your land by clicking at http://www.etcgroup.org/takeaction.asp

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WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57
MAJOR PROBLEMS IN CHINA WITH BT COTTON
...Despite the scale of problems faced elsewhere with transgenic Bt
cotton growing - e.g. in India (outperformed economically by non-GM
cotton), in Indonesia (Monsanto withdrew after economic failure) and in
South Africa (indebtedness increased) - China has constantly been held
up by GM proponents as the big GM success story. It is also the key
element in all those statistics claiming millions of small farmers are
benefiting from GM.

However, given the secretive nature of the Chinese state, it has been
difficult to confirm many of the figures cited...When a report was
published in June 2002 which seriously questioned the claims of success,
it came under ferocious attack. Although the report was based on the
work of scientists at a research institute funded by China's State
Environmental Protection Agency, it was vilified on the grounds that it
had been commissioned and co-published by Greenpeace.

The report suggested that while the widespread adoption of Bt cotton in
China may have reduced pesticide consumption, it had also resulted in
the evolution of Bt toxin-resistant bollworms which could make the
technology "ineffective in controlling pests after eight to ten years of
continuous production".

However, the report's critics claimed, "There is not a single example or
shred of evidence in the Greenpeace report of actual resistance in
bollworms to Bt cotton in the field... According to Shirong Jia and Yufa
Peng of the Chinese National GMO Biosafety Committee, 'no resistance of
cotton bollworm to Bt has been discovered yet, after five years of Bt
cotton planting.'" http://whybiotech.ca/html/claims.html

Claims by the scientists commissioned by Greenpeace that secondary pests
were emerging that caused equivalent damage to Bt cotton, were also
stridently dismissed.

Now, however, Liu Xiaofeng, a researcher in Henan, China's number two
cotton producing province, has confirmed the Greenpeace-commissioned
research findings. Liu is cited as saying that the cotton bollworm is
indeed developing resistance and will be no longer susceptible to Bt
cotton within six to seven years. He also confirms that Bt cotton is not
effective in controlling secondary pests and that this "could cause a
disaster". http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3636

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WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57
HOW GM CROPS DESTROY THE THIRD WORLD
(Case studies from Argentina, Indonesia and India)
An excellent roundup by Lim Li Ching of GM crops' dismal performance in
the above countries, given as an Independent Science Panel briefing at
the House of Commons, is at
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3666

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WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57
PHARM CROP PRODUCTS GROWN AND MARKETED IN US
Prof. Joe Cummins has revealed that dangerous GM pharmaceutical crops
have been produced and marketed in the US for at least two years,
unbeknownst to the public, via a gaping loophole in the regulatory
process.

There has been a great deal of public opposition recently to the testing
of rice genetically modified to produce the human proteins lysozyme and
lactoferrin in the United States. So far, those tests have been stalled.

But Sigma-Aldrich, a US chemical company, has been marketing the
biopharmaceutical products trypsin, avidin and beta-glucuronidase (GUS)
processed from transgenic maize, for at least two years. Meanwhile,
Prodigene Corporation and Sigma-Aldrich are marketing aprotinin
(AproliZean) from maize and from a transgenic tobacco.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/full/GMBIMFull.php
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3624


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