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Luiz Meira <luizmeira@aleph.com.br>
Data: Qua Out 6, 1999 12:11
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Assunto: [gen-ocidio] diagnostic kit
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> Mothers for Natural Law of the Natural Law Party
> Biweekly News 99/10/03
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> 5. On-the-spot test kit developed
> 6. UK: Fears over GM pollen found in beehives
> 10. Canada: Percy versus Monsanto
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> September 29, 1999, Wednesday LONDON EDITION 1
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> On-the-spot test kit developed
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> A Scottish laboratory has developed an on-the-spot diagnostic kit that
> will allow supermarket chains and seed sellers to test whether supplies
> have been genetically modified without having to send samples off for
> expensive laboratory analysis.
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> Copyright 1999 AAP Information Services Pty. Ltd. AAP NEWSFEED
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> September 30, 1999, Thursday
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> Fears over GM pollen found in beehives
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> By Amanda Brown
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> LONDON, Sept 29 PA - Scientists have found genetically modified pollen
> in beehives nearly 5km from an official trial site, Friends of the
> Earth said today. These are the first published monitoring results of
> GM pollen from a farm-scale trial site and show GM pollen travelling
> further than ever previously detected. It also reveals the scale of the
> threat the trials pose to non-GM and organic farmers, beekeepers and
> the wider environment, said Friends of the Earth. The errant pollen was
> found during a GM monitoring and analysis program organised by Friends
> of the Earth and BBC's Newsnight around Model Farm near Watlington,
> Oxfordshire. The monitoring was carried out during June and July 1999
> by the National Pollen Research Unit at University College Worcester
> and a bee specialist. The GM analysis was carried out by the Federal
> Environment Agency in Austria. The government's rules for farm-scale
> trials require only a 50-metre separation between GM crops and other
> fields...
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> The latest study looked at pollen carried by bees and in the air. It
> showed that all six beehives monitored, which were located between 500
> metres and 4.5km from the GM oil seed rape crop, were found to contain
> GM pollen. Airborne GM pollen was found up to 475 metres from the trial
> site.
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> Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Online
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> CBC News Online Bruno, Sask. 9/29/99
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> Percy versus Monsanto
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> Martin O'Malley
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> Driving east from Saskatoon, heading to the Manitoba border, the sign
> on Highway 5 said "Bruno, 6K." That was the road to Percy Schmeiser's
> place, but I decided t'hell with it, Percy's been done.
>
> Watched the documentary on him on CBC-TV's The National. Soon he'll be
> on CBC-TV's The Fifth Estate. And television crews are coming to Bruno
> from Japan, Germany, and England. Even the Bloc Quebecois is sending a
> representative from Quebec to meet with Percy Schmeiser and discuss his
> quixotic battle with Monsanto, a David and Goliath affair if ever there
> was one.
>
> A year ago, Monsanto put the squeeze on Percy for illegally growing
> Monsanto's special, genetically modified canola, called "Roundup
> Ready." Monsanto launched a lawsuit against the 68-year-old farmer, who
> has been farming in this part of Saskatchewan for 40 years. Now Percy's
> fighting back, having launched his own $10 million lawsuit against
> Monsanto, accusing the biochemical giant of contaminating his farm.
>
> It works this way. Monsanto sells its special genetically modified
> canola seeds to farmers, but the farmers are not allowed to use the
> Monsanto seeds from one crop to grow another crop, which is what
> farmers traditionally do. They must buy new seeds from Monsanto every
> year.
>
> The selling point for Monsanto's canola is that it can survive
> Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, which kills other plants without killing
> Monsanto's genetically modified canola. Monsanto now has a new breed of
> canola called "Terminator," which produces sterile seeds that can't
> reproduce.
>
> Somehow, Monsanto discovered there was Monsanto canola growing on
> Percy's 1,400-acre spread, so they decided to get tough and make an
> example of him. Boy, did the folks at Monsanto pick the wrong guy. They
> probably didn't know much about him, like his having been a popular
> local mayor and an MLA in the Saskatchewan legislature. I'm sure they
> didn't know about Percy's three attempts to climb Mount Everest,
> getting "only" 23,000 feet up.
>
> Fifteen kilometres beyond the road to Bruno, I did a U-turn on Highway
> 5 and headed back. I had to at least say hello to Percy Schmeiser. When
> would I be in the neighbourhood again? Stopped at a farm implement
> dealership on the edge of town to ask directions.
>
> "Hullo!" I shouted inside the open but empty dealership. "Hullo!" came
> a distant reply, whereupon a tall man in jeans appeared from a corner
> office.
>
> "Where would I find Percy Schmeiser?" I asked. "I'm Percy Schmeiser,"
> said Percy Schmeiser.
>
> When I told him what I knew about Roundup Ready genetically modified
> canola, he ushered me outside his dealership, walked to a hydro line,
> knelt down and showed me a growth of canary-yellow canola. "This is
> it," he said, then he took me to the north side of the building where
> another shoot of Roundup Ready genetically modified canola was growing
> next to the building in the shade.
>
> "All over the place," he said. "It blows in the wind,
> cross-pollinates." He knelt down and pulled off one of the flowers,
> popping open a pod of canola, displaying the freckle-sized, black
> seeds. "Little plant like this makes a minimum 4,000 seeds...maybe
> 10,000 seeds," he said.
>
> "Now they're not saying I stole their seed," Percy said. "Now they're
> saying it doesn't matter how the (Monsanto canola) gets into a farmer's
> field. Doesn't matter if it's blown onto the field or if it's by
> cross-pollination. They say it's their patent and if they find it on
> your field they'll take your crop, they'll sue you, they'll fine you."
>
> He looks out the window of his cluttered office, across to the railway
> tracks, deep in thought - looking for a metaphor, as I soon learn.
>
> "What if a farmer has a scrub bull?" Percy asked. "And his neighbour's
> got a herd of purebred registered cows? Through negligence, the bull
> gets over the fence and impregnates his neighbour's cows. Now the guy
> with the scrub bull says those calves are his. The cows too! Same
> thing, eh?" Percy says he has spent $35,000 in legal fees going up
> against Monsanto. There was a mediation hearing on the case in August
> but it didn't resolve anything, so Percy and Monsanto are due to meet
> in court next June 6. Now a multi-billion antitrust suit has been filed
> in a U.S.
>
> Federal Court against Monsanto and other agribusiness companies.
>
> Monsanto dearly would love to extricate itself from this mess. The
> David that is Percy Schmeiser has become a royal pain in the ass to the
> Goliath that is Monsanto.
>
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