Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
India Files Biopiracy Lawsuit Against Monsanto
September 28th, 2011France24 Video: India vs. Monsanto: Seeds of Discord Via: Global Research: Representing one of the most agriculturally bio-diverse nations in the world, India has become a primary target for biotechnology companies like Monsanto and Cargill to spread their genetically-modified (GM) crops into new markets. However, a recent France 24 report explains that the Indian government […]
RNA from Rice Can Survive Digestion and Alter Gene Expression
September 22nd, 2011Via: Discover: It’s no secret that having lunch messes with your biochemistry. Once that sandwich hits your stomach, genes related to digestion have been activated and are causing the production of the many molecules that help break food down. But a new study suggests that the connection between your food’s biochemistry and your own may […]
And Now… Monsanto Corn Falls to Illinois Bugs
September 3rd, 2011Horror movie or silly video game? Nope, just more innovation from Monsanto. Via: Bloomberg: Monsanto Co. (MON)’s insect-killing corn is toppling over in northwestern Illinois fields, a sign that rootworms outside of Iowa may have developed resistance to the genetically modified crop, according to one scientist. Michael Gray, an agricultural entomologist at the University of […]
Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria DNA
August 30th, 2011Via: Ars Technica: The bacteria behind the Black Death has a very unusual history. Its ancestor is an unassuming soil bacterium and the current strains of Yersinia pestis still infects thousands of people annually, but no longer cause the suite of horrifying symptoms associated with the medieval plagues. The radical differences between the two versions, […]
Monsanto ‘Technology’ Breeding Superweeds and Pesticide Resistant Root Worms
August 30th, 2011This week is Environmental Terrorist Organizations. Via: Mother Jones: Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered plants that can survive our very own […]
Monsanto and the Mortal Danger to Traditional Agriculture
August 21st, 2011Via: Axis of Logic: The greatest threat to the future of food production in the world is the introduction of genetically engineered foods from the bio-tech industry. Contrary to their mendacious propagandized promises of solving the problem of world hunger through the so-called second green revolution, the bio-tech companies are instead in the process of […]
For First Time, More Corn Used for Ethanol Than Livestock
August 18th, 2011Via: The Gazette: For the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tables. The prediction drew little response last week when it was released by the USDA in its Crop Production and Supply/Demand Report for the 2011 crop […]
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Maize Fields
July 26th, 2011Via: IB Times: In an effort to rid the country of Monsanto’s GMO products, Hungary has stepped up the pace. This looks like its going to be another slap in the face for Monsanto. A new regulation was introduced this March which stipulates that seeds are supposed to be checked for GMO before they are […]
Did the USDA Just Deregulate All New Genetically Modified Crops?
July 18th, 2011Via: Mother Jones: In a surprise move, the agency green-lights Roundup Ready lawn grass—and perhaps much, much more. It’s a hoary bureaucratic trick, making a controversial announcement on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend, when most people are daydreaming about what beer to buy on the way home from work, or are checking movie […]
Contagion
July 15th, 2011Via: YouTube:
