2009 articles

News and comment roundup based on GMWatch on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gmwatch

# Monsanto demands climate subsidies for GM soy! Vote against Monsanto and its false climate solutions http://bit.ly/3SbLVt

#Overlooked in much coverage of China's GMO rice approval: commercialization only after trials and **public acceptance** http://bit.ly/7DLoR8

# Barroso to establish new Super EU Commissioner for biotech http://bit.ly/7jDiw8 (EU Commission President strongly pro-GM)

# What were they thinking? http://bit.ly/7J0ik1 Interesting analysis of GMO sugar beet case by a GM farmer and trial attorney who expresses amazement at way USDA and Monsanto conducted themselves

# GM weeds spread from containment glasshouse in New Zealand http://bit.ly/5u35Y5

# France defines GMO-free labeling threshold http://bit.ly/7sk3sg NB new labels *in addition* to existing mandatory GMO labeling

# Soon we'll be eating GM cottonseed http://bit.ly/83Cxsa Yum!    

# Agriculture & Climate Change, Real Problems & False Solutions http://bit.ly/8uoz0u

# Share price under pressure? Monsanto promises "biggest biotech launch ever" with SmartStax in 2010 http://bit.ly/5PGCpC

# Stacked Insurance http://bit.ly/7EzJGj Federal Crop Insurance cuts your premiums when you plant Monsanto's latest GMOs

# Yum! Yum! Scientists grow pork in a lab http://bit.ly/7aNAtT Pig cells incubated in blood products of animal foetuses

# Interesting background: The Buzz about GM Rice in China http://bit.ly/4CBy6c

# Producing more. Conserving more. Improving farmers' lives. That's sustainable ag. And that's what Monsanto is all about (Monsanto ad) http://bit.ly/52Akt7 (pdf)

# Important Recent Research, Briefings, Reports on GM crops http://bit.ly/DEAab

# Call on Dow: Take action to address legacy of Bhopal NOW http://bit.ly/17FcPn

# "Modern science 'applied' by ignorant arrogance resembles too closely loaded pistol in hands of a monkey" - Wendell Berry

# Agribiz won't help Africa http://bit.ly/8n9oU1 While Gates throws $$ at Africa, farmers in California line up for food handouts

# New York Times on ludicrous agribiz study that says you can sell consumers GMO apples if you hide the fact they're GMO! http://bit.ly/4OavOg
 
#Monsanto and Dow's denials re Agent Orange "fly in the face of scientific consensus" http://bit.ly/5hldmW
 
# Climate-friendly organic ag http://bit.ly/7DD6R8 Excellent piece from Third World Resurgence

# Obama's revolving door and agri-chem giants http://bit.ly/8YaPOR

# Captains of industry write EU's script http://bit.ly/5MZbkr (Ever wondered why the EU Commission, unlike EU citizens, is so pro-GM?)

# GM DNA from GM feed survives in meat & milk of animals fed GM maize & soya, 3 studies show http://bit.ly/6885nE