Government and Professional Perspectives

Domestic

• Jeopardizing the Future? Genetic Engineering, Food and the Environment by Michael Hansen, Ph.D. and Jean Halloran Consumer Policy Institute/Consumers Union. This paper originally appeared in Say No to Genetically Engineered Food Jennifer Mourin, (Ed.) published by The Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PANAP).

• Organic Farming: Facing Choices at the Crossroads
  Address by Dr. Charles Benbrook before the Sharing the Lessons of Organic Farming Conference -- University Centre, University of Guelph -- Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Jim Hightower's New Year's Eve show was on transgenic food; "A surprise in Your Dinner:'Transgenics'"

• Remarks by Deputy Secretary Rich Rominger at the 27th Soybean Seed Research Conference & 52nd Corn & Sorghum Research Conference, American Seed Trade Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois -- December 10, 1997

• Consumers Union's Comments on EPA's Proposed Regulation of Plant Pesticides with related tables of plant pesticides

• Pioneer Announces Decision on Herbicide Resistance in Corn DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/..."Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (NYSE: PHB) sent a letter to customers today announcing that due to the current restrictive terms proposed by Monsanto Co., the Company will not carry the Roundup herbicide resistance trait in corn."

• They have the biotechnology, but it may be running out of control, and the US is starting to worry.  Fields of Gene, an article from New Scientist August 16, 1997, by Kurt Kleiner (Washington DC)

• Entomological Society of America (ESA) Position Statement on appropriate Uses of Genetic Engineering in the Production of Crops.

International

• Genetic Engineering: Scientific Elitism and Industrial Interests, by Vlady Rivera MASIPAG/Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development, Los Banos, Launa, Phillipines

• Will Biotechnology Feed the World's Poor? by Tom Campbell, Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Development Studies Centre, Kimmage Manor. Dublin. Republic of Ireland. January, 1998

• Brazil Ag officials don't want genetically altered U.S. soybeans