Genetic Engineering
Ecological Impacts
Natural Pesticide Turns Nasty In People in HortNews, London,
May 28, 1998. A bacterium (Bt) used as a natural pesticide on food
>and feed crops could cause serious infections in people, according to
>a report on Wednesday.
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The Environmental Risks of Transgenic Crops: an
Agroecological Assessment
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by Miguel A. Altieri, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
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Bacterium toxin as insecticide to be genetically engineered into field corn. --
DowElanco and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation own joint patent on
the bacterium's toxin and the genes.
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THE NATURE OF THINGS: The huge unstoppable
experiment,
by Clive Cookson, in Financial Times,
Saturday, November 8, 1997
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Call For a Spin Doctor, Matthew Gledhill and Peter
McGrath in New Scientist, November 1, 1997.
"The public image of genetically engineered crops--which are already viewed
with deep suspicion in many European countries--may be about
to get worse."
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Ladybugs harmed in transgenic crop test
London Times, October 22, 1997, By Nigel Hawkes,
science editor
Last Updated on 6/22/98
By Karen Lutz
Email: karen@hillnet.com
