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German biotech succumbs in activist onslaught
The forces of ignorance continue to prevail in Germany, and to broaden their swath of destruction. Today, in what was once the cradle of modern science and philosophy, not a single farmer grows a modern biotech crop. No longer able to target farms, the activists have focused their barbaric attentions on research crops -- with six experiments destroyed so far this season, and much of the season remaining.
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'Terminator' corn wins organic prize
All Things Organic has just announced the winners of its 2009 New Product Competition, and one of the winners is "SK Food International's Crimson Red Corn (Best Overall Organic Ingredient)-A hybrid corn with a gene that prevents GMO contamination, used as an ingredient in snack foods, tortillas, and flour." SK Food spokesman Aaron Skyberg says "The gametophyte gene within the corn does not allow other types, or species, of corn to pollinate it." This is clearly a Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT).
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Novel with a novel GMO
A newly-released novel combines the approaches of Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, and Jeffrey Smith. How did Smith join such august company? Well, it's fiction, for one thing. But there are other familiar elements: a giant multinational corporation engaged in the development and sales of GM seeds and complementary chemicals. There's pollen-mediated outcrossing, and a 'Doomsday Vault' of non-GM seeds buried in an ice-bound island far north of the Arctic Circle. And ancient manuscripts with clever riddles. And bombs and guns, and black helicopters. Ladies and gentlemen, the novel is The Doomsday Key, by James Rollins.
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