Genetic Engineering

Pest Management at the Crossroads contains discussion of applications of biotechnology to pest management. The critiques of Bt-transgenic plants and herbicide-tolerance, and related recommendations are bound to be controversial. We'll try to incorporate the highlights of the debate here.

• "The The Foundation on Economic Trends and the Pure Food Campaign, groups affliated with Jerome Rifkin, are working to galvanize global oppostion to genetically engineered food. The invitation to join in a "Global Days of Action" in October, 1997, sets forth their concerns and goals, and suggests that the debate over gentically engineered food is far from settling down. For more information, see their web page"

• A position statement on herbicide tolerant crops, issued May 1997, from Dennis Keeney, Director of the Leopold Center

• Agribusiness Letter to Clinton: Get Tough on Biotech

• European Parliament Excludes GMOs from Organic Agriculture

• Codex Role in the Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods

• "Return to the 'Stone-Age of Pest Management'" Remarks presented before the EPA public meeting "Plant Pesticides Resistance Management" on behalf of Consumers Union, March 21, 1997 Washington D.C.

• EPA Fines Northrup King PANUPS, January 10, 1997

• Genetically Engineered (Bt) corn    FIELD CROP NEWSLETTER,
  Department of Agronomy, Penn State University

• Bollgard/Bollworm Debate in Cotton Grower, Fall 1996, By Chris Demaske

• For one company's views, see "Distinguishing Ag Biotech Technology" from the AgraQuest Web site

• New Web Site on "Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers" with Internet Links and Essays

• Impacts on International Trade
  • New York Times aricle "Genetic Soybeans From the U.S. Alarm Europeans" , November 7, 1996
  • Europeans Concerned Over Exports of Roundup Ready Soybeans, recent developments documented by the Pesticide Action Network

• Genetically altered soybeans and labelling --SANET discussion

• "Genetically Engineered Crops: Good News or Bad News" -- SANET debate