Roundup of GM-related news via Twitter
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*UK: Advice on how to tackle candidates and the media on the GM issue during the General Election: http://bit.ly/cm2b5x
*USA: Act now for a very real chance to get GM labeling in the US! http://bit.ly/d7f23w
*SWEDEN: Big protest re BASF's GM-potato: 11 April Stockholm. All welcome! Detail (Swedish) http://bit.ly/bSBn0X
*USA: The Atlantic: How Obama Sold the Farm http://bit.ly/aVOAQy
*USA/INDIA: A Victory for Democracy - Another Blow to Monsanto http://huff.to/dhHP8L
*UKRAINE: Parliament refuses to soften GM labeling laws http://bit.ly/cetp8V
*INDIA: Study indicates farmers not keen on GM crops - 80% wouldn't cultivate GM food crops http://bit.ly/bNmzsQ
*USA: Genetically Motified Means Higher Yield? Not For This Soya: http://bit.ly/cVmQdm Report: http://bit.ly/aaBpyO
*USA: Pfizer ordered to pay whistleblower over genetically engineered 'AIDS-like' virus infections http://bit.ly/aMLvKx
*Great video spelling out the problems with biofuels http://bit.ly/bQqPEW
*INDIA: Over 25,000 people have already signed this petition against pro-GM Minister Chavan's GM food bill. Have you? http://ow.ly/1vqXj
*EUROPE: Help us collect 1 million votes against GM food in Europe http://bit.ly/cnR7aw
*USA: Organic Farmers Report Increasing GM Contamination with Corn http://bit.ly/9BgLQ8
*USA: Farmers may force Monsanto price cut http://bit.ly/cXNwON
*The New Biomassters http://bit.ly/codY3A Grab for the planet's plants as the feedstock of the global economy.
*International treaty on damage caused by GMOs in sight http://bit.ly/dgoUpx
*AFRICA: In 2002 the US told Zambia: "Eat GM or starve!" http://bit.ly/FyUcm But they're finding a better way (inspiring article!) http://bit.ly/9G2ZGG
*ASIA: Bt brinjal row in India catches S-E Asian farmers' attention http://bit.ly/de1bY4
*SOUTH AFRICA/KENYA: GM maize sparks international food fight http://bit.ly/a6XKdJ
*USA: Herbicide resistance becomes big issue http://bit.ly/bunEGd
*USA: Biofuels are NOT green but Congress keeps subsidizing them. Tell your Rep to vote NO on more tax credits http://bit.ly/agKM4z
*USA: Congressman Peterson Wins Biofool of the Year Award - for giving billions to dirty inefficient biofuels companies http://bit.ly/9PUkQz
*EUROPE: Of Biofuels, Land Grabs and Food Prices - http://nyti.ms/9TgGmJ
*USA: Sierra Club Chair on Monsanto's bad seed, revisited http://huff.to/bxAf8F
*CANADA: GM seeds creating barriers to exports for farmers http://bit.ly/amMEYR
*USA: CBS News: 60 Minutes on patenting human genes http://bit.ly/b8SCvw
*UK/AFRICA: The arrogance of Saint Bob - John Hilary's Guardian response to Geldof http://tinyurl.com/yfxtnns
*VIETNAM: Four decades on, Monsanto and Dow's Agent Orange continues to ravage the children of Vietnam http://bit.ly/bGZBeO
*USA: Obama urges military to go "green" with biofuels!! http://bit.ly/97ALwT Fueling hunger, environmental devastation and war!
*USA: Biofuels Boost Food Prices (NPR): http://tinyurl.com/4u5uxr World Bank report
*VIDEO: Don't know why Monsanto & the GM lobby's so worried about Jeffrey Smith? New YouTube interview (Mercola) http://bit.ly/dq3qHL
*USA: Arkansas GM contamination trial: Bayer vs rice farmers (again!) http://bit.ly/duSR8Z
*USA: AgChat has new highly polished "Foundation." Ag peeps on Board + Monsanto, but no ProFood advocates. No surprise.
*USA: AgChat and "chipper PR hacks" who "stir up a shitstorm of misinformation" http://bit.ly/2dPzr
*USA: First came superweeds; now come the superbugs! http://bit.ly/cP0FiX
*AFRICA: Farmers can feed the world without tech. fixes: Kumi Naidoo & Nnimmo Bassey http://bit.ly/9Y6Rwb
*AFRICA: Calestous Juma of Gates Foundation GMO-promoting in the Christian Science Monitor http://bit.ly/c88diH
*EUROPE: Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth join Avaaz in calling for a GM moratorium: http://bit.ly/dveSB1 (see final paragraph)
*USA: Justice Dept Investigates Monsanto http://bit.ly/avygOb Includes Benbrook interview.