GM Watch
  • Main Menu
    • Home
    • News
      • Newsletter subscription
      • News Reviews
      • News Languages
        • Notícias em Português
        • Nieuws in het Nederlands
        • Nachrichten in Deutsch
      • Archive
    • Articles
      • GM Myth Makers
      • GM Reports
      • GM Quotes
      • GM Myths
      • Non-GM successes
      • GM Firms
        • Monsanto: a history
        • Monsanto: resources
        • Bayer: a history
        • Bayer: resources
    • Videos
      • Latest Videos
      • Must see videos
      • Agriculture videos
      • Labeling videos
      • Animals videos
      • Corporations videos
      • Corporate takeover videos
      • Contamination videos
      • Latin America videos
      • India videos
      • Asia videos
      • Food safety videos
      • Songs videos
      • Protests videos
      • Biofuel myths videos
      • Index of GM crops and foods
      • Index of speakers
      • Health Effects
    • Contact
    • About
    • Donations
News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides    
  • News
    • Newsletter subscription
    • News Reviews
    • News Languages
      • Notícias em Português
      • Nieuws in het Nederlands
      • Nachrichten in Deutsch
    • Archive
  • Articles
    • GM Myth Makers
    • GM Reports
    • GM Quotes
    • GM Myths
    • Non-GM successes
    • GM Firms
      • Monsanto: a history
      • Monsanto: resources
      • Bayer: a history
      • Bayer: resources
  • Donations
  • Videos
    • Index of speakers
    • Glyphosate Videos
    • Latest Videos
    • Must see videos
    • Health Effects
    • Agriculture videos
    • Labeling videos
    • Animals videos
    • Corporations videos
    • Corporate takeover videos
    • Contamination videos
    • Latin America videos
    • India videos
    • Asia videos
    • Food safety videos
    • Songs videos
    • Protests videos
    • Biofuel myths videos
    • Index of GM crops and foods
  • Contact
  • About
SUBSCRIBE TO REVIEWS

GMWatch Facebook cornfield banner

INTRODUCTION TO GM

GMO Myths and Facts front page.jpg

SCIENCE SUPPORTS REGULATION OF GENE EDITING

Plant tissue cultures

GENE EDITING: UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES AND RISKS

Damaged DNA on fire

GENE EDITING MYTHS AND REALITY

A guide through the smokescreen

Gene Editing Myths and Reality

ON-TARGET EFFECTS OF GENE EDITING

Damaged DNA

News Menu

  • Latest News
  • News Reviews
  • Archive
  • Languages

News Archive

  • 2022 articles
  • 2021 articles
  • 2020 articles
  • 2019 articles
  • 2018 articles
  • 2017 articles
  • 2016 articles
  • 2015 articles
  • 2014 articles
  • 2013 articles
  • 2012 articles
  • 2011 articles
  • 2010 articles
  • 2009 articles
  • 2008 articles
  • 2007 articles
  • 2006 articles
  • 2005 articles
  • 2004 articles
  • 2003 articles
  • 2002 articles
  • 2001 articles
  • 2000 articles

Please support GMWatch

Donations

You can donate via Paypal or credit/debit card.

Some of you have opted to give a regular donation. This is greatly appreciated as it helps place us on a more stable financial basis. Thank you for your support!

Missouri funds for ag pharma centre draw fire

  • Print
  • Email
Details
Published: 05 May 2005
Twitter

"In this budget climate, where we're making slash-and-burn cuts in Medicaid, I think we need to act cautiously before we hand out corporate subsidies" - Rep. Rachel Storch, D-St. Louis
------

Missouri funds for agricultural pharmaceutical center draw fire
Virginia Young
Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
St Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 May 2005
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/D9F164514881881B86256FF80016D862?OpenDocument

JEFFERSON CITY - Some Democrats are questioning a late addition to the state budget that would funnel more than $1 million next year toward construction of an agricultural pharmaceutical center in northwestern Missouri.

A state board would issue bonds to build the $30 million Center of Excellence in Maryville, Mo. Anchoring the project would be California-based Ventria Bioscience, which has genetically engineered rice seeds to produce human proteins for use in drugs.

House-Senate negotiators slipped the project's funding into the state's $19.2 billion operating budget on Monday. The Legislature passed half the budget bills Wednesday and is expected to sign off on the rest - including the bioscience center funding - today.

Rep. Rachel Storch, D-St. Louis, said the bioscience center needed more scrutiny than the brief presentation that budget negotiators received. She said there is still "much controversy" about whether Ventria's production of genetically modified rice could harm Missouri's rice farmers.

"In this budget climate, where we're making slash-and-burn cuts in Medicaid, I think we need to act cautiously before we hand out corporate subsidies," Storch said.

Under the plan, state taxpayers would spend $1.1 million a year for 15 years to help cover the center's debt. The federal government and private local sources would be expected to pay the rest.

House-Senate negotiators usually discuss only items approved by at least one chamber. But the bioscience center was on neither list; it surfaced for the first time Monday, allowing no public input.

It did have an inside track: It would be in the district of House Budget Chairman Brad Lager, R-Maryville.

Lager said in an interview that he pulled no special strings. He said the project has been in the planning stages for months at the Department of Economic Development and Northwest Missouri State University. The center would be on the university's campus.

The planners recently decided to ask the Missouri Development Finance Board to float the bonds and to lease the building to the state. That spurred the request for general revenue to help pay the construction cost.

"It has nothing to do with me being budget chair," Lager said. "This is truly an economic development piece."

Ventria plans to move its headquarters to Missouri from Sacramento, Calif. Sen. David Klindt, R-Bethany, told budget negotiators Monday that four additional high-tech companies are expected to move into the bioscience center within five years, generating 226 high-paying jobs.

"We're at a point where we have to invest in our future," Klindt said.

Reporter Virginia Young
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 573-635-6178

Menu

Home

Subscriptions

News Archive

News Reviews

Videos

Articles

GM Myth Makers

GM Reports

GM Myths

GM Quotes

Non-GM Successes

Contacts

Contact Us

About

Facebook

Twitter

Donations

Content 1999 - 2022 GMWatch.
Web Development By SCS Web Design