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<P><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Tell Monsanto, where to go!</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi, anbei mal wieder ein paar GM-Artikel aus gmwatch. Gruß, Sabine</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">RESULT IN ON PERCY SCHMEISER CASE</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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. </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3607"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3607</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">See Percy's response at </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3616"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3616</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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." </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3616"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3616</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">+ TELL MONSANTO WHERE TO GO!</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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</FONT> <A HREF="http://www.etcgroup.org/takeaction.asp"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.etcgroup.org/takeaction.asp</FONT></U></A></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">MAJOR PROBLEMS IN CHINA WITH BT COTTON</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">...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) -</FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The report suggested that while the widespread adoption of Bt cotton in China may have reduced pesticide consumption,</FONT><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 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".</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.'" </FONT><A HREF="http://whybiotech.ca/html/claims.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://whybiotech.ca/html/claims.html</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Claims by the scientists commissioned by Greenpeace that secondary pests were emerging that caused equivalent damage to Bt cotton, were also stridently dismissed.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Now, however,</FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Liu Xiaofeng, a researcher in Henan, China's number two cotton producing province, has confirmed</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the Greenpeace-commissioned research findings. Liu is cited as saying</FONT><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 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".</FONT></B> <A HREF="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3636"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3636</FONT></U></A></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">HOW GM CROPS DESTROY THE THIRD WORLD</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(Case studies from Argentina, Indonesia and India)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3666"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3666</FONT></U></A></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WEEKLY WATCH 75, Fr 04.06.04 22:57</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR="#008000" SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">PHARM CROP PRODUCTS GROWN AND MARKETED IN US</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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. </FONT><A HREF="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/full/GMBIMFull.php"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/full/GMBIMFull.php</FONT></U></A></P>
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