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GE Soya > Ge Everything
Current understanding of genetic engineering is extremely limited. Despite industry puff, scientists dont know the long-term effects of releasing these unpredictable organisms into nature nor into our diets. GE is in fact a largely untested technology that breaks natural barriers by mixing genes across species that would never happen naturally. That is why the battle to stop Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) infiltrating the environment is so important.
The specific battle for soya is essential as over two-thirds of packaged food on supermarket shelves can contain soya; it is also a popular form of animal feed and by far the biggest GE crop grown in the world. With about half of the world's soya already transgenic, time is running out for consumers to maintain the right to reject GE food and avoid GMOs in the fields.
Monsanto and the other GE companies (Syngenta, Bayer and Dow) are not only interested in owning and controlling the global soya seed market. GE maize, created by these companies, has already contaminated the home of maize in Mexico and GE rapeseed has created super weeds making organic rapeseed growing impossible in Canada. Where will this end? For more information on other GMOs found in agriculture such as Wheat, Rice and Fish click here
Food for Thought:
The True Cost
of Gene Patents
'Roundup Ready' Soya - what more can go wrong?
Superweeds
Golden Rice: Reality v Fiction
Maize Under Threat - GE Maize Contamination in Mexico
Genetically Engineered Papaya - Unknown Plant
Genetically Engineered Wheat - Changing Our Daily Bread
Genetic Pollution - A Multiplying Nightmare (Canola)
Argentine reserve sold
 Despite Greenpeace's demonstration outside the 'Salta House' in Buenos Aires earlier this week, the governor of Salta Juan Carlos Romero went ahead with his plans and sold part of the Pizarro Reserve, to make way for more GE soya expansion.
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Greenpeace confronts CEC on Maize
Earlier this week a meeting of the NAFTA Commission for Environmental
Cooperation (CEC) took place in Puebla, Mexico. Unfortunately, the ministers did not include on their agenda a discussion of the issue of contaminated maize in the state of Oaxaca.
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GE soya claims its latest Argentine victim
Following the announcement by Juan Carlos Romero, the governor of Salta, Argentina's biggest northern state, to put the Pizarro Reserve on sale, our campaigners demonstrated outside the 'Salta House' in Buenes Aires to illustrate the folly of this decision.
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Majority of EU votes against Monsanto rapeseed
 In yesterday's first EU committee vote on GMOs since its enlargement, Monsanto was denied approval to import RoundUp-resistant GT73 rapeseed into the European Union. Six out of the 10 new EU member states voted against, but while 57 votes were cast against compared to 43 votes in favour, the EU Commission is expected to press on with the application regardless and to transmit it to the Council of Ministers.
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FAO declares war on farmers, not on hunger
 The Director General of the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organisation) today received an open letter from hundreds of civil society organisations from across the world, including Greenpeace, denouncing its the recent annual report as a disgraceful public relations tool for the genetic engineering industry.
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China - protecting the homeland of Soya
 Soya originated in China and has an agricultural history spanning over 5,000 years, but with the advent of genetically engineered (GE) soya all of this is now under serious threat. Through our GE campaign and our Great Cyber Wall we want to make sure that China can safeguard its heritage and one of its major food supplies.
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Mexican Maize: the Truth
 In September 2001, the Mexican government shocked the world with its announcement that traditional varieties of maize, grown by peasant farmers in the isolated mountains of the state of Oaxaca, had become contaminated with transgenic sequences from US GE maize.
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From Rosario, Argentina to the Esperanza
It may not seem obvious for a GE campaigner from Argentina to be on a boat that is campaigning in Europe - however I am from Rosario, Argentina's GE soya capital.
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Monsanto wins right to Genetic Pollution
 After years of fighting against bio-tech giant Monsanto, we are sad to announce that Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer who Monsanto claims did not acquire a licence to grow his crop of canola has lost his appeal today in the Supreme Court of Canada. Even though Schmeisers crop became contaminated by GE canola fields near his farm.
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Crop outed as super weed
The issue of super weeds, caused by GE technology such as Monsanto's Roundup products, has been highlighted in Brazil today when our activists delivered a more 'realistic version' of what Roundup Ready soya is to the to the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Mr. Germano Rigotto, demanding that the region remain GE free.
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Commission says yes to BT-11 - consumers say no!
Despite our persistent lobbying, the European Commission has today approved Bt-11, a genetically engineered sweet corn variety developed by Syngenta, grown in the US. The decision comes after EU governments failed to reach agreement on the issue and despite documented irregularities in the application as well as massive consumer opposition.
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Tell Canada to Keep Monsanto Out of Your Bread
As a national election looms in Canada, Prime Minister Paul Martin and his government refuse to reject Monsanto's application to pollute Canadian wheat fields with their genetically engineered wheat. So far, over 5 000 global citizens have faxed the Prime Minister to say they don't want Monsanto's genes in their bread, pizza, or pasta.
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True costs of patents - a new Greenpeace study
Greenpeace research shows that over 100 patents on genes of humans and animals were granted in 2003, our new paper published today in Berlin outlines their economic and environmental impact.
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Governments fail to protect consumers from GE sweet corn
Twenty Greenpeace activists today presented EU Agriculture Ministers in Luxembourg with the clear message that: "Europe says No to GMOs". However despite our presence the EU Agriculture Council decided not to block the approval of genetically engineered sweet corn (Bt-11 maize) imports for human consumption.
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Greenpeace helps protect Argentinean reserve
Farmers and people of all ages from the indigenous Wichis people protested yesterday in Salta, North Argentina to stop the sale of a natural reserve that will destroy their way of life, and take away their livelihood as it represents their only economic support.
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Hungarians not hungry for GE corn
Today our activists from the Hungarian office protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture against the introduction of GE corn in Hungary. With the help of a six-meter high inflatable husk of corn they underlined the potential threat that the introduction of GMOs could pose to local agriculture following the country's accession into the EU.
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Greenpeace urges Ministers to reject GM maize Bt-11
Our EU unit has today released a report criticizing the new EU GMO evaluation procedures as inadequate and urges European Agriculture Ministers to reject a Commission proposal to allow the import and marketing of a GM sweet corn for human consumption.
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Activists board ship in Brazil
Our Brazilian Greenpeace activists have inspected the Saturn V today in the port of Rio Grande, as the ship is suspected to be loaded with soya contaminated by genetically engineered (GE) soya developed by US agrochemical giant, Monsanto.
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Spanish take action to stop GE Soya
 This morning our Greenpeace volunteers and activists in Spain occupied the soya processing facilities of Moyresa/Bunge in Cartagena, to highlight the importation of an estimated 4 millions tons of GE soya into Spain.
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Rainbow Warrior arrives in Sydney
Australian food icon Margaret Fulton welcomed the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, when it sailed into Sydney harbour today.
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GM firm retreats from the UK
Following the controversial UK government approval of genetically engineered (GE) maize for commercial planting, the only company authorized to grow GE maize has withdrawn its application. It now appears unlikely the UK will see any commercialised GE crops before 2008.
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GE Soya The First & Final Fight?
In 1996 the first US shipments of Genetically Engineered (GE) soya arrived at European shores. They were met by Greenpeace protesters and consumer activists, who were adamant that Monsanto, one of the worlds leading producers of GE seeds, would not get away with sneaking Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into the food chain without public debate, consumer choice and safety testing.
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