21. Media Coverage via simply reducing pesticide usage, costly genetically engineered crops are even these life science companies and the supportive media thoroughly confused. http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GEFood/Media.asp

Genetically Engineered Food Email Page to a Friend Printer-Friendly Version You are here: Home Environmental Issues Genetically Engineered Food Media Coverage by Anup Shah This page: http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GEFood/Media.asp To print full details (expanded/alternative links, side notes, etc.) use the printer-friendly version: http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GEFood/Media.asp?p=1 To assume that the public is ignorant is not only patronising, but inaccurate and damaging. Global Environmental Change Programme research reveals that people's understandings of the issues are very much better developed than these characterisations imply. ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme (1999) The Politics of GM Food:Risk, Science and Public Trust , Special Briefing No. 5, University of Sussex. Outside of the United States, there has been some public debate in the last couple of years about the possible benefits and possible risks of genetically engineered food. Within the United States though, this has been less so. As seen in the public concern section on this site, in many countries, people have been able to vocally protest their concerns and the mainstream media has covered a few of the various aspects of this issue to some extent.

22. EMS - Biomass, Ethanol, Environmental Impacts crops Agricultural Wastes. Ethanol and Smog. Where to Get More Information? Categoriesfor this topic •, Energy. Visit related topics Environmental media http://www.ems.org/biomass/intro.html

Tuesday, 8 June 2004 Website Overview Search for: Printer-friendly version Introduction to Bioenergy Last update: June 2, 2003 What is Bioenergy? Bioenergy uses biomass plant matter or animal waste to produce electricity, fuels and heat. Examples include ethanol motor fuel, landfill gas and wood burned in fireplaces and stoves. EMS's biomass web pages deal mainly with ethanol motor fuel and the use of plant matter to generate electricity in power plants. Biomass Energy Potential Current ethanol production uses the kernels from the corn plant. Farming of corn is a relatively energy-intensive process, but ethanol from corn still yields 34 percent more energy than the total amount required to farm the corn and make the ethanol. (Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture - PDF Other crops have a much higher energy yield: Ethanol made from " energy crops " grasses and trees yields 4-5 times as much energy as needed to farm the crops and make the ethanol. (Source: Union of Concerned Scientists The Department of Energy (DOE) believes that we could produce 10 percent of our transportation fuels from biomass by 2010, and as much as 50 percent by 2030. For electricity, DOE estimates that biomass could supply 5 percent by 2010, while the Electric Power Research Institute puts the portion at 8 percent. Repowering the Midwest ," a report by environmental groups, estimates that energy crops and waste biomass from the Midwest alone could provide about 16 percent of the country's electricity, without irrigation and without competing with food crops.

23. "GREED OR NEED? Genetically Modified Crops" PANOS Media Briefing 30A, 2/99 is illinformed and sometimes hysterical , fanned by an irresponsible media. Aheated debate over genetically modified crops has been raging over recent http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/GMcrops.html

back to biokoya co-globalize rat haus Index ... tree This paper is reproduced here with permission of the source organizations that funded it: the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the UK Department for International Development who state at the bottom of this: "Panos Briefings are intended to stimulate informed public debate and may be freely reproduced, in whole or in part, with acknowledgement." The original exists at http://www.oneworld.org/panos/briefing/brief30.htm NOTE: the original employs the convention of underlining text for emphasis . Given the degree of HTML syntax errors (making it difficult to ascertain just how much of what was actually underlined was intended), and that it is this ratitor's belief that underlining is more difficult to read in hypertext, all such text exists here in italics Panos Media Briefing No 30A (re-issue) February 1999 GREED OR NEED? Genetically modified crops TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Key Facts The Birth Of Genetic Engineering Introduction of modified crops Genetically Modified Crops: The Industry Case Increased crop yields Reduced use of herbicides Reduced use of insecticides Reduced soil erosion Drought tolerance What Monsanto says GM Crops: The Critics' Case Bad science Ecosystem dangers Greater reliance on chemicals Loss of biodiversity Health risks The profit motive A Question Of Trust?

24. Lime: Essential For Nursery Crops However, since most potting media are organic with little or no mineralmatter, a pH of 5.5 is adequate for containergrown crops. http://www.ncagr.com/agronomi/lime.htm

Agronomic Division Home Page About the Division Field Services Nematode Assay ... Virtual Tour M edia N otes for North Carolina Growers Rd ; Raleigh, NC 27607-6465; (919) 733-2655; May 1995 Lime: Essential for Nursery Crops by M. Ray Tucker and J. Kent Messick, Agronomists Lime provides many benefits for nursery crops. Although certain plants require an acid environment (low pH), they still need calcium and magnesium for optimum growth. Lime supplies these essential nutrients. The major role of lime is to neutralize soil acidity. However, since most potting media are organic with little or no mineral matter, a pH of 5.5 is adequate for container-grown crops. Native pine bark has a pH around 4.0 and requires lime to raise the pH to 5.5. For field-grown trees and shrubs, the target pH is 6.0. Types of Lime The two basic types of lime used for plant production purposes are calcitic and dolomitic. Calcitic lime is composed of calcium carbonate ( CaCO ) and contains little or no magnesium. Since most container-grown media (pine bark and sand) are low in magnesium, it may be necessary to apply a magnesium fertilizer when using calcitic lime. Dolomitic lime is composed of a mixture of calcium and magnesium carbonates ( CaMgCO ) and, by law, must contain a minimum of 6 percent magnesium. Most lime sold in North Carolina is dolomitic and exceeds the 6 percent minimum of magnesium. So, dolomitic lime should provide an adequate amount of magnesium for container-grown plants.

25. Fertilization Of Greenhouse Crops NOTE 9 Greenhouse crops. Lime. Potting media and the crop determine the amountof lime needed. In mineral soils, most plants grow well at a pH of 6.0. http://www.ncagr.com/agronomi/stnote9.htm

Agronomic Division Home Page About the Division Field Services Nematode Assay ... Virtual Tour NOTE 9: Greenhouse Crops The soil test report expresses nutrient levels for phosphorus ( P ), potassium ( K ), manganese ( Mn ), zinc ( Zn ) and copper ( Cu Mn Zn and Cu Lime Potting media and the crop determine the amount of lime needed. In mineral soils, most plants grow well at a pH of 6.0. The rhododendron family, however, thrives at a pH of 5.0 to 5.5. Peat-lite and other organic media contain lower levels of toxic factors associated with soil acidity than mineral soils. Therefore, plants grown in organic media perform well at a lower pH. When you decide what you want the soil pH to be, you can calculate the rate of lime to apply according to the following formula, where Ac is the acidity value given on the soil test report: desired pH soil pH soil pH Ac lbs of lime per On the soil test report, a in the Mg column of the Recommendations section indicates that magnesium levels are low. When is present and the pH is low, apply dolomitic lime. However, if lime is not needed, add 7 ozs Epsom salts (0.7

26. New Study Indicates Biotechnology-derived Crops Benefit The Environment For Immediate Release June 20, 2002 media ADVISORY. New Study IndicatesBiotechnologyderived crops Benefit the Environment. Study http://www.ncfap.org/CASTmediaadvisory.htm

For Immediate Release: June 20, 2002 MEDIA ADVISORY New Study Indicates Biotechnology-derived Crops Benefit the Environment Study Details Announced at June 25 National Press Club Briefing in Washington, D.C. What: A review of current scientific literature comparing the environment impacts of biotechnology-derived and traditional crops indicates that soil, air and water quality all benefit from the responsible use of current biotechnology-derived soybean, corn and cotton crops. Dr. Teresa Gruber, executive vice president of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), along with the researchers who prepared the report and representatives of the United Soybean Board, will present the study findings and respond to questions from the media. When: Tuesday, June 25 from 9:30-11:00 a.m. (Eastern) Where: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C. Who: A team of researchers affiliated with Washington State University, the University of Illinois, Clemson University and the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy conducted the study on behalf of CAST, a non-profit organization composed of scientific societies and individual members. CAST assembles, interprets, and communicates science-based information regionally, nationally, and internationally on food, fiber, agricultural, natural resource, and related societal and environmental issues. The United Soybean Board, a farmer-led organization which oversees the investments of the soybean checkoff on behalf of all U.S. soybean farmers, commissioned the study.

27. Media Compilation # 14: As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice + June 15, 2001 media Compilation 14 1. As Biotech crops Multiply, Consumers GetLittle Choice + 2. SOME MORE GMORELATED NEWS + 3. WILL EUROPE BAN ASPARTAME http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/MediaCompilation14.htm

June 15, 2001 Media Compilation # 14: 1. As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice + 2. SOME MORE GMO-RELATED NEWS + 3. WILL EUROPE BAN ASPARTAME - Sweetener probed + 4. Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) Calls for a Tax on Meat Dear media person In a world where we are bombarded daily with often trivial information, there comes sometimes *really* important stuff that should absolutely get a first-place treatment by our media. Unfortunately the politicians and the latest crime scene or some local disaster get all the air-time and front-page space and there is no time or space left for those generally uncovered but not so trivial news that seldom get a proper in-depth treatment. I believe the safety of our food supply is now being radically jeopardized by a combination of corporate greed, political corruption at the highest level, fraudulent science and sheer subservience of the mainstream media in far too many countries to the political and/or financial Establisment that owns and control them with a tight grip. Can you be instrumental in helping to change this situation?

28. News And Media: Scientists Publish Evaluation Of Biotech Crops, Underscoring Saf Scientists Publish Evaluation of Biotech crops, Underscoring Safety andBenefits ST. The most significant benefits of Bt crops include http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/media/00/12-15-00.asp

Home Site Map Contact Us Help Scientists Publish Evaluation of Biotech Crops, Underscoring Safety and Benefits ST. LOUIS, MO, December 15, 2000 Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology The scientific report reviews scientific research on crops protected against insect pests with a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis Bt ), a common soil microbe, including studies which demonstrate that Bt crops are as safe as conventional plant varieties and these products provide significant economic, environmental and agricultural benefits. Bt crops have been commercially available since 1996," said Dr. Roy Fuchs, director of regulatory science at Monsanto Company, a coauthor of the paper. The evaluation reviewed data on three major Bt crops - corn, cotton and potatoes - that have been commercialized in several countries, rapidly adopted by farmers, and studied extensively by scientists around the world. "The combined safety and performance studies combined with years of experience have shown that Bt crops are providing important benefits on many different levels," said Dr. Fuchs.

29. News And Media: Golden" Crops: Part Of A Sustainable Solution To Global Vitamin Golden crops Part of a Sustainable Solution to Global Vitamin AMalnutrition According to the World Health Organization, vitamin http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/media/00/12-07-00c.asp

Home Site Map Contact Us Help "Golden" Crops: Part of a Sustainable Solution to Global Vitamin A Malnutrition According to the World Health Organization, vitamin A deficiency is a global epidemic, with around 250 million people suffering significant illnesses, including impairment of vision, inability to absorb proteins and nutrients, and reduced immune function. Approximately half a million children go blind each year because their diets are deficient in vitamin A. This important vitamin is present in foods of animal origin, such as meat, milk and eggs. Limited amounts of vitamin A are also available from nutrients known as carotenes, which are present in fruits and vegetables. In developing countries, many factors contribute to widespread vitamin A deficiency, including food insecurity, dietary practices, and inadequate access to fortified foods and supplements. Agricultural biotechnology has the potential to help address malnutrition in developing countries, when used to produce staple crops with higher levels of important nutrients.

30. JD's New Media Musings: Will Genetic Crops Rescue Mother Earth? Will genetic crops rescue Mother Earth? And other crops are being developed totolerate soil contaminants like aluminum, a big problem in the tropics. http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2003/09/will_genetic_cr.html

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31. US Govt. Launches Web Site Promoting Biotech Crops - Independent Six countries have banned crops already approved by the European Union, which hasnot here to view all items about Top Stories Ignored By US media Click here http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=6239&fcategory_desc=Environme

32. MPs No GM Crops Without Further Trials - Independent Media TV Independent media TV. Environment. MPs no GM crops withoutfurther trials. March 05, 2004. By Matthew Tempest. http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=6068&fcategory_desc=Environme

33. Arab Media Watch - US Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops US soldiers bulldoze farmers crops Posted on Sunday, October 12 @ 072719BST. News By Patrick Cockburn October 12, 2003 Independent on Sunday. http://www.arabmediawatch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=920

34. Promise And Pitfalls Of Using Genetically Modified Crops In Developing Countries Home media Quik Stop Interview Archive Genetically Modified Cropsand Developing Countries. Promise and Pitfalls of Using Genetically http://www.foodfirst.org/media/interviews/2000/scifri4-00.html

Search: Home Media Quik Stop Interview Archive Promise and Pitfalls of Using Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries SCIENCE FRIDAY Anchor: Ira Flatow National Public Radio April 14, 2000 (2:00 PM ET) Listen to this debate in RealAudio Debate: Dr. Peter Rosset Executive Director Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) Oakland, CA http://www.foodfirst.org vs. Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen Director General International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, DC http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/ FLATOW: The debate over the safety of genetically modified crops has been heating up in the United States. Europeans have long been suspicious about this technology, but here in the US we've only recently begun to seriously talk about how these high-tech food crops should be regulated and about whether or not they are safe. About a year ago, the National Academy of Sciences appointed a committee to look into these very issues. The committee issued its report last week, and a bit later in the program we'll talk with one of the committee members about its findings. One of the issues that always comes up is how important this technology might be for people in the developing world. If you could get past the barrage of news this week about the plight of one little boy in Florida, you might have been able to pick out a ghastly sight from Africa: the faces of starving children; lots of them. Eight million people in Africa don't have enough food to eat and are dying from a drought that has wiped out their food supply.

35. Food First - Media Quick Stop May 05, 2004 Measure H Makes Mendocino the First County to Ban GM crops in the FoodFirst media Quik Stop Headlines can be linked to via RSS file at http http://www.foodfirst.org/media/

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36. BBSRC Media Releases - Genetically Modified Crops And The Countryside (14 Jun 99 Broom s Barn; Institute of Arable crops ResearchRothamsted; Institute of FoodResearch; John Innes Centre. Contact Andrew McLaughlin, BBSRC media Officer. http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/99_06_14_gencrop.html

Media Office Press Releases Full list This press release ... About this site See also: Research database BBSRC Media Office Press Releases 14 June 1999 Genetically modified crops and the countryside BBSRC-funded research at the New Frontiers in Science Exhibition, Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG. Wednesday 16 Thursday 17 June 1999, 10.00-16.30 The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is presenting some current research at BBSRC-sponsored institutes into the environmental impact of genetically modified (GM) crops. Come and talk to the scientists who carry out this work, and find out more about on-going research in this area. The display forms part of the New Frontiers in Science exhibition at the Royal Society. You are invited to attend the media preview at 9.30 am on Wednesday 16 June, during which the exhibition will be formally opened by Lord Puttnam, Chairman, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). The BBSRC display covers current research into: 1. Predictability and inserted gene (transgene) stability

37. BBSRC Media Releases - The Environmental Safety Of GM Crops (17 Feb 99) been obtained so far in laboratories and experimental plots, and to examine the wayin which GM crops might be Contact Andrew McLaughlin, BBSRC media Officer. http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/99_02_17_gmsafety.html

Media Office Press Releases Full list This press release ... About this site See also: Research database BBSRC Media Office Press Releases 17 February 1999 The environmental safety of GM crops The potential impact of GM crops on the countryside has been the subject of independent research over the past decade, including fundamental studies into the nature of transferred genes, how they are regulated and work inside the plant, and what happens when they are transferred between organisms. This research will continue to provide basic scientific evidence to inform decisions about the regulatory process and commercial planting of GM crops. The research includes: predicting the behaviour and stability of transferred genes over several generations; evaluating their potential to interact with other genes in the plant, and to be transferred by hybridisation from one plant to another of the same or different species; and assessing their possible impact on the wider environment, for example on wild plants and beneficial species.

38. Position Statements - APS Media/Outreach Center Disease Threatens Cucumbers, Pumpkins, and Other Vine crops. St. Paul,Minn. (April 23, 2004) Plant pathologists with The American http://www.apsnet.org/media/press/04cucurbits.asp

Overview News Releases Media Events News Release Sign-Up ... Contacts The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a non-profit, professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases. The American Phytopathological Society PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Contact: Amy Steigman American Phytopathological Society Phone: +1.651.454.7250 Web: www.apsnet.org E-mail: asteigman@scisoc.org Disease Threatens Cucumbers, Pumpkins, and Other Vine Crops St. Paul, Minn. (April 23, 2004) - Plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS) are reporting a significant increase in the occurrence of Phytophthora blight of vine crops, including cucumbers, pumpkins, and squash, in many vegetable-growing regions of the United States. This devastating disease, caused by a soilborne pathogen called Phytophthora capsici, often results in nearly total yield loss. According to Mohammad Babadoost, a plant pathology professor at the University of Illinois, Phytophthora blight has become one of the most serious threats to production of vine crops, or cucurbits, both in the United States and worldwide. "Recent outbreaks of Phytophthora blight have threatened pumpkin and other cucurbit industries in Illinois, where approximately 90 percent of processing pumpkins produced in the U.S. are grown," said Babadoost. "Because of heavy crop losses, growers often have to abandon their own farms and move into different areas, sometimes traveling more than 50 miles, to find fields not infested with Phytophthora capsici," said Babadoost.

39. Foei Media Centre media centre, home media centre gm publication, select campaign geneticallymodified crops, a decade of failure. part http://www.foei.org/media/gmdecade.html

home media centre gm publication select campaign... antarctica biodiversity climate change corporates desertification earth summit ecological debt forests gmos human rights ifis maritime mining trade water/wetlands select year... 2003 releases 2002 releases 2001 releases 2000 releases 1999 releases genetically modified crops, a decade of failure part 1 (612 Kb) part 2 (542 Kb) part 3 part 4 (445 kb) The report is available, for journalists only, to download, in 4 parts. The information it contains should not be used before February 23, 2004 at 00:01 GMT (08:01 time of Kuala Lumpur) friends of the earth international secretariat po box 19199, 1000 gd amsterdam, the netherlands tel: 31 20 622 1369. fax: 31 20 639 2181. e-mail us

40. South Asian Media Net > OPINION Kashmir crops up, Editorial Friday 2, April 2004. Source The Hindu. ProducedBy Free media Foundation For, South Asian Free media Association. http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_opinion4.cfm?id=26203

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