Open Letter from World Scientists to All Goverments concerning GMOs

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Open Letter from World Scientists to All Governments Concerning

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

 

The scientists are extremely concerned about the hazards of GMOs to

biodiversity, food safety, human and animal health, and demand a

moratorium on environmental releases in accordance with the

precautionary principle.

They are opposed to GM crops that will intensify corporate monopoly,

exacerbate inequality and prevent the essential shift to sustainable

agriculture that can provide food security and health around the world.

They call for a ban on patents of life-forms and living processes which

threaten food security, sanction biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and

genetic resources and violate basic human rights and dignity.

They want more support on research and development of non-corporate,

sustainable agriculture that can benefit family farmers all over the

world.

Previous versions of this letter were submitted to many governments and

international forums including:

 

World Trade Organization Conference in Seattle (November 30 – Dec. 2,

1999)

UN Biosafety Protocol Meeting in Montreal (24 – 28, Jan. 2000)

UN Commission on Sustainable Development Conference on Sustainable

Agriculture in New York (April 24-May 5, 2000)

UN Convention on Biological Diversity Conference in Nairobi (May 16-24,

2000)

United States Congress (29 June, 2000)

Signed by 633 scientists from 74 different countries, including:

 

 

Dr. David Bellamy, Biologist and Broadcaster, London, UK

Prof. Liebe Cavalieri, Mathematical Ecologist, Univ. Minnesota, USA

Dr. Thomas S. Cox, Geneticist, US Dept. of Agriculture (retired), India

Dr. Tewolde Egziabher, Spokesperson for African Region, Ethiopia

Dr. David Ehrenfeld, Biologist/Ecologist, Rutgers University, USA

Dr. Vladimir Zajac, Oncovirologist, Genetisist, Cancer Reseach Inst,

Czech Republic

Dr. Brian Hursey, ex FAO Senior Officer for Vector Borne Diseases, UK

Prof. Ruth Hubbard, Geneticist, Harvard University, USA

Prof. Jonathan King, Molecular Biologist, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini, Laboratoire de Biochimie & Moleculaire,

Univ. Caen, France

Dr. David Suzuki, Geneticist, David Suzuki Foundation, Univ. British

Columbia, Canada

Dr. Vandana Shiva, Theoretical Physicist and Ecologist, India

Dr. George Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center, USA

Prof. Oscar B. Zamora, Agronomist, U. Philippines, Los Banos,

Philippines

 

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1.9.2000

 

Open Letter from World Scientists to All Governments

Summary

We, the undersigned scientists, call for the immediate suspension of all

environmental releases of GM crops and products, both commercially and

in open field trials, for at least 5 years; for patents on living

processes, organisms, seeds, cell lines and genes to be revoked and

banned; and for a comprehensive public enquiry into the future of

agriculture and food security for all.

 

Patents on life-forms and living processes should be banned because they

threaten food security, sanction biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and

genetic resources, violate basic human rights and dignity, compromise

healthcare, impede medical and scientific research and are against the

welfare of animals.

 

GM crops offer no benefits to farmers or consumers. Instead, many

problems have been identified, including yield drag, increased herbicide

use, erratic performance, and poor economic returns to farmers. GM crops

also intensify corporate monopoly on food, which is driving family

farmers to destitution, and preventing the essential shift to

sustainable agriculture that can guarantee food security and health

around the world

 

The hazards of GMOs to biodiversity and human and animal health are now

acknowledged by sources within the UK and US Governments. Particularly

serious consequences are associated with the potential for horizontal

gene transfer. These include the spread of antibiotic resistance marker

genes that would render infectious diseases untreatable, the generation

of new viruses and bacteria that cause diseases, and harmful mutations

which may lead to cancer.

 

In the Cartegena Biosafety Protocol negotiated in Montreal in January

2000, more than 130 governments have pledged to implement the

precautionary principle and to ensure that biosafety legislations at the

national and international levels take precedence over trade and

financial agreements at the World Trade Organization.

 

Successive studies have documented the productivity and the social and

environmental benefits of sustainable, low-input and organic farming in

both North and South. They offer the only practical way of restoring

agricultural land degraded by conventional agronomic practices, and

empower small family farmers to combat poverty and hunger.

 

We urge the US Congress to reject GM crops as both hazardous and

contrary to the interest of family farmers; and to support research and

development of sustainable agricultural methods that can truly benefit

family farmers all over the world.

 

We, the undersigned scientists, call for the immediate suspension of all

environmental releases of GM crops and products, both commercially and

in open field trials, for at least 5 years; for patents on living

processes, organisms, seeds, cell lines and genes to be revoked and

banned; and for a comprehensive public enquiry into the future of

agriculture and food security for all.

 

1 Patents on life-forms and living processes should be banned because

they threaten food security, sanction biopiracy of indigenous knowledge

and genetic resources, violate basic human rights and dignity,

compromise healthcare, impede medical and scientific research and are

against the welfare of animals(1). Life-forms such as organisms, seeds,

cell lines and genes are discoveries and hence not patentable. Current

GM techniques which exploit living processes are unreliable,

uncontrollable and unpredictable, and do not qualify as inventions.

Furthermore, those techniques are inherently unsafe, as are many GM

organisms and products.

 

2. It is becoming increasingly clear that current GM crops are neither

needed nor beneficial. They are a dangerous diversion preventing the

essential shift to sustainable agricultural practices that can provide

food security and health around the world.

 

3. Two simple characteristics account for the nearly 40 million hectares

of GM crops planted in 1999(2). The majority (71%) are tolerant to

broad-spectrum herbicides, with companies engineering plants to be

tolerant to their own brand of herbicide, while most of the rest are

engineered with bt-toxins to kill insect pests. A university-based

survey of 8200 field trials of the most widely grown GM crops,

herbicide-tolerant soya beans - revealed that they yield 6.7% less and

required two to five times more herbicides than non-GM varieties(3).

This has been confirmed by a more recent study in the University of

Nebraska(4). Yet other problems have been identified: erratic

performance, disease susceptibility(5), fruit abortion(6) and poor

economic returns to farmers(7).

 

4. According to the UN food programme, there is enough food to feed the

world one and a half times over. While world population has grown 90% in

the past 40 years, the amount of food per capita has increased by 25%,

yet one billion are hungry(8). A new FAO report confirms that there will

be enough or more than enough food to meet global demands without taking

into account any yield improvementsthat might result from GM crops well

into 2030 (9). It is on account of increasing corporate monopoly

operating under the globalised economy that the poor are getting poorer

and hungrier(10). Family farmers around the world have been driven to

destitution and suicide, and for the same reasons. Between 1993 and 1997

the number of mid-sized farms in the US dropped by 74,440(11), and

farmers are now receiving below the average cost of production for their

produce(12). The farming population in France and Germany fell by 50%

since 1978(13). In the UK, 20 000 farming jobs were lost in the past

year alone, and the Prime Minister has announced a £200m aid

package(14). Four corporations control 85% of the world trade in cereals

at the end of 1999(15). Mergers and acquisitions are continuing.

 

5. The new patents on seeds intensify corporate monopoly by preventing

farmers from saving and replanting seeds, which is what most farmers

still do in the Third World. In order to protect their patents,

corporations are continuing to develop terminator technologies that

genetic engineer harvested seeds not to germinate, despite worldwide

opposition from farmers and civil society at large(16).

 

6. Christian Aid, a major charity working with the Third World,

concluded that GM crops will cause unemployment, exacerbate Third World

debt, threaten sustainable farming systems and damage the environment.

It predicts famine for the poorest countries(17). African Governments

condemned Monsanto's claim that GMOs are needed to feed the hungry of

the world: " We..strongly object that the image of the poor and hungry

from our countries is being used by giant multinational corporations to

push a technology that is neither safe, environmentally friendly, nor

economically beneficial to us… we believe it will destroy the diversity,

the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems that our

farmers have developed for millennia and …undermine our capacity to feed

ourselves.(18) " A message from the Peasant movement of the Philippines

to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of

the industrialized countries stated, " The entry of GMOs will certainly

intensify landlessness, hunger and injustice.(19) "

 

7. A coalition of family farming groups in the US have issued a

comprehensive list of demands, including ban on ownership of all

life-forms; suspension of sales, environmental releases and further

approvals of all GM crops and products pending an independent,

comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental, health and

economic impacts; and for corporations to be made liable for all damages

arising from GM crops and products to livestock, human beings and the

environment(20). They also demand a moratorium on all corporate mergers

and acquisitions, on farm closures, and an end to policies that serve

big agribusiness interests at the expense of family farmers, taxpayers

and the environment(21). They have mounted a lawsuit against Monsanto

and nine other corporations for monopolistic practices and for foisting

GM crops on farmers without adequate safety and environmental impact

assessments(22).

 

8. Some of the hazards of GM crops are openly acknowledged by the UK and

US Governments. UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF)

has admitted that the transfer of GM crops and pollen beyond the planted

fields is unavoidable(23), and this has already resulted in

herbicide-tolerant weeds(24). An interim report on UK

Government-sponsored field trials confirmed hybridisation between

adjacent plots of different herbicide tolerant GM oilseed rape

varieties, which gave rise to hybrids tolerant to multiple herbicides.

In addition, GM oilseed rape and their hybrids were found as volunteers

in subsequent wheat and barley crops, which had to be controlled by

standard herbicides(25). Bt-resistant insect pests have evolved in

response to the continuous presence of the toxins in GM plants

throughout the growing season, and the US Environment Protection Agency

is recommending farmers to plant up to 40% non-GM crops in order to

create refugia for non-resistant insect pests(26).

 

9. The threats to biodiversity from major GM crops already

commercialized are becoming increasingly clear. The broad-spectrum

herbicides used with herbicide-tolerant GM crops decimate wild plant

species indiscriminately, they are also toxic to animals. Glufosinate

causes birth defects in mammals(27), and glyphosate is linked to

non-Hodgkin lymphoma(28). GM crops with bt-toxins kill beneficial

insects such as bees(29) and lacewings(30), and pollen from bt-corn is

found to be lethal to monarch butterflies(31) as well as

swallowtails(32). Bt-toxin is exuded from roots of bt-plants in the

rhizosphere, where it rapidly binds to soil particles and become

protected from degradation. As the toxin is present in an activated,

non-selective form, both target and non-target species in the soil will

be affected(33), with knock on effects on species above ground.

 

10. Products resulting from genetically modified organisms can also be

hazardous. For example, a batch of tryptophan produced by GM

microorganisms was associated with at least 37 deaths and 1500 serious

illnesses(34). Genetically modified Bovine Growth Hormone, injected into

cows in order to increase milk yield, not only causes excessive

suffering and illnesses for the cows but increases IGF-1 in the milk,

which is linked to breast and prostate cancers in humans(35). It is

vital for the public to be protected from all GM products, and not only

those containing transgenic DNA or protein. That is because the process

of genetic modification itself, at least in the form currently

practised, is inherently unsafe.

 

11. Secret memoranda of US Food and Drug Administration revealed that it

ignored the warnings of its own scientists that genetic engineering is a

new departure and introduces new risks. Furthermore, the first GM crop

to be commercialized - the Flavr Savr tomato - did not pass the required

toxicological tests(36). Since then, no comprehensive scientific safety

testing had been done until Dr. Arpad Pusztai and his collaborators in

the UK raised serious concerns over the safety of the GM potatoes they

were testing. They conclude that a significant part of the toxic effect

may be due to the " [gene] construct or the genetic transformation (or

both) " used in making the GM plants(37).

 

12. The safety of GM foods was openly disputed by Professor Bevan

Moseley, molecular geneticist and current Chair of the Working Group on

Novel Foods in the European Union's Scientific Committee on Food(38). He

drew attention to unforseen effects inherent to the technology,

emphasizing that the next generation of GM foods - the so-called

'neutraceuticals' or 'functional foods', such as vitamin A 'enriched'

rice - will pose even greater health risks because of the increased

complexity of the gene constructs.

 

13. Genetic engineering introduces new genes and new combinations of

genetic material constructed in the laboratory into crops, livestock and

microorganisms(39). The artificial constructs are derived from the

genetic material of pathogenic viruses and other genetic parasites, as

well as bacteria and other organisms, and include genes coding for

antibiotic resistance. The constructs are designed to break down species

barriers and to overcome mechanisms that prevent foreign genetic

material from inserting into genomes. Most of them have never existed in

nature in the course of billions of years of evolution.

 

14. These constructs are introduced into cells by invasive methods that

lead to random insertion of the foreign genes into the genomes (the

totality of all the genetic material of a cell or organism). This gives

rise to unpredictable, random effects, including gross abnormalities in

animals and unexpected toxins and allergens in food crops.

 

15. One construct common to practically all GM crops already

commercialized or undergoing field trials involves a gene-switch

(promoter) from the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) spliced next to the

foreign gene (transgene) to make it over-express continuously(40). This

CaMV promoter is active in all plants, in yeast, algae and E. coli. We

recently discovered that it is even active in amphibian egg(41) and

human cell extract(42). It has a modular structure, and is

interchangeable, in part, or in whole with promoters of other viruses to

give infectious viruses. It also has a 'recombination hotspot' where it

is prone to break and join up with other genetic material(43).

 

16. For these and other reasons, transgenic DNA - the totality of

artificial constructs transferred into the GMO - may be more unstable

and prone to transfer again to unrelated species; potentially to all

species interacting with the GMO(44).

 

17. The instability of transgenic DNA in GM plants is well-known(45). GM

genes are often silenced, but loss of part or all of the transgenic DNA

also occurs, even during later generations of propagation(46). We are

aware of no published evidence for the long term stability of GM inserts

in terms of structure or location in the plant genome in any of the GM

lines already commercialized or undergoing field trials.

 

18. The potential hazards of horizontal transfer of GM genes include the

spread of antibiotic resistance genes to pathogens, the generation of

new viruses and bacteria that cause disease and mutations due to the

random insertion of foreign DNA, some of which may lead to cancer in

mammalian cells(47). The ability of the CaMV promoter to function in all

species including human beings is particularly relevant to the potential

hazards of horizontal gene transfer.

 

19. The possibility for naked or free DNA to be taken up by mammalian

cells is explicitly mentioned in the US Food and Drug Administration

(FDA) draft guidance to industry on antibiotic resistance marker

genes(48). In commenting on the FDA's document, the UK MAFF pointed out

that transgenic DNA may be transferred not just by ingestion, but by

contact with plant dust and air-borne pollen during farm work and food

processing(49). This warning is all the more significant with the recent

report from Jena University in Germany that field experiments indicated

GM genes may have transferred via GM pollen to the bacteria and yeasts

in the gut of bee larvae(50).

 

20. Plant DNA is not readily degraded during most commercial food

processing(51). Procedures such as grinding and milling left grain DNA

largely intact, as did heat-treatment at 90deg.C. Plants placed in

silage showed little degradation of DNA, and a special UK MAFF report

advises against using GM plants or plant waste in animal feed.

 

21. The human mouth contains bacteria that have been shown to take up

and express naked DNA containing antibiotic resistance genes, and

similar transformable bacteria are present in the respiratory

tracts(52).

 

22. Antibiotic resistance marker genes from GM plants have been found to

transfer horizontally to soil bacteria and fungi in the laboratory(53).

Field monitoring revealed that GM sugar beet DNA persisted in the soil

for up to two years after the GM crop was planted. And there is evidence

suggesting that parts of the transgenic DNA have transferred

horizontally to bacteria in the soil(54).

 

23. Recent research in gene therapy and nucleic acid (both DNA and RNA)

vaccines leaves little doubt that naked/free nucleic acids can be taken

up, and in some cases, incorporated into the genome of all mammalian

cells including those of human beings. Adverse effects already observed

include acute toxic shock, delayed immunological reactions and

autoimmune reactions(55).

 

24. The British Medical Association, in their interim report (published

May, 1999), called for an indefinite moratorium on the releases of GMOs

pending further research on new allergies, the spread of antibiotic

resistance genes and the effects of transgenic DNA.

 

25. In the Cartegena Biosafety Protocol successfully negotiated in

Montreal in January, 2000, more than 130 governments have agreed to

implement the precautionary principle, and to ensure that biosafety

legislations at the national and international levels take precedence

over trade and financial agreements at the WTO. Similarly, delegates to

the Codex Alimentarius Commission Conference in Chiba Japan, March 2000,

have agreed to prepare stringent regulatory procedures for GM foods that

include pre-market evaluation, long-term monitoring for health impacts,

tests for genetic stability, toxins, allergens and other unintended

effects(56). The Cartegena Biosafety Protocol has now been signed by 68

Governments in Nairobi in May, 2000.

 

26. We urge all Governments to take proper account of the now

substantial scientific evidence of actual and suspected hazards arising

from GM technology and many of its products, and to impose an immediate

moratorium on further environmental releases, including open field

trials, in accordance with the precautionary principle as well as sound

science.

 

27. Successive studies have documented the productivity and

sustainability of family farming in the Third World as well as in the

North(57). Evidence from both North and South indicates that small farms

are more productive, more efficient and contribute more to economic

development than large farms. Small farmers also tend to make better

stewards of natural resources, conserving biodiversity and safeguarding

the sustainability of agricultural production(58). Cuba responded to the

economic crisis precipitated by the break up of the Soviet Bloc in 1989

by converting from conventional large scale, high input monoculture to

small organic and semi-organic farming, thereby doubling food production

with half the previous input(59).

 

28. Agroecological approaches hold great promise for sustainable

agriculture in developing countries, in combining local farming

knowledge and techniques adjusted to local conditions with contemporary

western scientific knowledge(60). The yields have doubled and tripled

and are still increasing. An estimated 12.5 million hectares worldwide

are already successfully farmed in this way(61). It is environmentally

sound and affordable for small farmers. It recovers farming land

marginalized by conventional intensive agriculture. It offers the only

practical way of restoring agricultural land degraded by conventional

agronomic practices. Most of all, it empowers small family farmers to

combat poverty and hunger.

 

29. We urge all Governments to reject GM crops on grounds that they are

both hazardous and contrary to ecologically sustainable use of

resources. Instead they should support research and development of

sustainable agricultural methods that can truly benefit family farmers

the world over.

 

 

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signed by

 

1 Prof. Polycap Dank B.Sc science polycap research institute Angola

2 Prof. Adolfo E. Boy Horticulture and Sustainable Agri. Univ. Moron

Chair of Inst. of Sustainble Agriculture Argentina

3 Alfredo Galli Agronomist Groupo de Reflexion Rural Argentina

4 Dr. Jorge Kaczewer M.D MD complementary medicines cientific journalism

author of the book in spanish language Transgenic Risks for Human Health

ECOMEDICOS Argentina

5 Jorge Eduardo Roulli Ecologist Groupo de Reflexion Rural Argentina

6 Damien Beaumont B.Sc Postgraduate student at the University of New

England Armidale Australia

7 Peter Belbin B.Sc Land Management Consultant Tafe Australia

8 Dr. Graeme E. Browne General Practitioner Melbourne PSRAST Australia

9 Dr. Judy A. Carman Epidemiologist Flanders University Adelaide

Australia

10 Dr. Catherine Clinch-Jones General Practitioner Adelaide Australia

11 Mr Sid Cowling B.Sc Environmental Biology Consultant Australia

12 Dr. Philip A. Davies Geneticist Adelaide Australia

13 Rocco Di Vincenzo M.Sc Chief Dietitian Swinburne University Hospital

Australia

14 Prof. Horst W. Doelle Micobiologist Univ. Queensland retired Chair of

International Organisation for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Director

MIRCEN-Biotechnology Brisbance and Pacific Regional Network Australia

15 Dr. Lynette J. Dumble Medical Scientist Women's Health and

Environment University of Melbourne Australia

16 Doug N Everingham Physician MB BS Univ Syd 1946 Ex MPs Association

Australia

17 Angela Fehringer Anthropology Student Sydney Australia

18 Prof. Frank G.H.P. Fisher Graduate School of Environmental Science

Clayton Australia

19 Kasia E. Gabrys Environmental Scientist Environmental Science

National Trust of Australia Melbourne Australia

20 Dr. Dion Giles Ph.D Analytical chemistry organic chemistry chemical

education Stop MAI (WA) Australia

21 Stephen Glanville PDC ECOS Design Australia

22 Dr. Veronica R. Griffin Consultant Nutrition and Environmental

Medicine Cairns Australia

23 Dr. Richard Hindmarsh Environmental Social Scientist Univ. Queensland

Australia

24 Margaret Jackson B.Sc. Genetics National Genetics Awareness Alliance

Australia

25 Steven Kiss B.Sc Biological/ Organic Farm Manager broad acre crops

sheep cattle medicinal herbs Australia

26 Dr. Elmar Klucis Ph.D Biochenistry Biology Retired Australia

27 Keith Loveridge B.Sc Bachelor Environmental Soc Sci RMIT University

Croydon Conservation Society Australia

28 Lisa McDonald Agronomist CRC for Sustainable Sugar Production James

Cook University Australia

29 Dr. Peter J. McMachon Plant Physiologist Genethics Australia

Conservation Foundation Australia

30 Elham Monavari B.Sc Bsc Maj Biology Masters in Env. Managemment

Student Cities for Climate Protection Project Officer Australia

31 Dr. Paul Nelson CSIRO Land and Water PMB Australia

32 Tim Osborn Web Development Australia

33 Dr. Sharron L. Pfueller Biochemistry/Environmental Studies School of

Geography and Environmental Sciene Monash University Melbourne Australia

34 Katrina E. Preski Environmental Science Monash University Melbourne

Australia

35 Dr. Peter Renowden Strategic Planner Melbourne Australia

36 Sandra Russo Principal of College As a Homoeopath I lecture have a

private clinic and mentor students of Homoeopathy Adelaide Training

College of Complementary Medicin Australia

37 Frank Samson B.Sc R & D Project Manager (Physics) Sola International

Holdings Australia

38 Glenn Sorensen B.Sc Natural Products Chemist/Phytochemist Jurlique

Australia

39 Dr. Rosemary Stanton Ph.D Nutritionist Australia

40 Dr. Maarten Stapper Ph.D Farming Systems Agronomist Australia

41 Michelle Starr Ph.D student Natural Therapist none Australia

42 Dr Corinna-Britta Steeb Ph.D Pathophysiology Medical Sceinces

Nutrition Klein Research Institute Australia

43 Dr. Ted Steele Molecular Immunologist U. Wollengong Australia

44 DI Gertrude Kaffenbock Ph.D student Ph.D. candidate Agricultural

Economist St. Polton Austria

45 Thomas Klemm Psychologist Konrad Lorenz Institute Austria

46 Dr. Maria G. Neunteufel Economist Vienna Austria

47 Muhammed Saiful Islam M.Sc Entomologist DAE Bangladesh

48 Golam Kibria M.Phil EcologyCultureBiodiversity UBINIG Bangladesh

49 Zakir Kibria M.Phil Ecology Biodiversity Culture BanglaPraxis

Bangladesh

50 Dr Farhad Mazhar Ecologist New Agricultural Movement Bangladesh

51 Dhirendra Panda Ph.D student MOBILISATION AND ACTIVISM the collective

Bangladesh

52 De Beer Daniel M.Sc Lawyer Lawyers Without Borders and Vrij

university Brusse Belgium

53 Dr. Gaëtan du Bus Forest Engineer Univ. Catholique de Louvain INRA

Belgium

54 Verstraeten Guy B.Eng have an engineering eductation in biochemistry

education I have ethical objections to do work in most of the current

industries and research Belgium

55 Els Torreele Ph.D student biotechnology Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Belgium

56 Prof. MOHAMED HABIB Ph.D 39 years of research experience Biological

Control and Agro Ecolgy University of Campinas Brazil

57 Prof. Antonio Carlos Junqueira Do Val Filho B.Sc Engineer Agronomist

CDA Brazil

58 Samuel MacDowell Ph.D Plant Molecular Biology IBAMA Brazil

59 Paulo Roberto Martins Research Institute of Technology Brazil

60 Dr. Leovegildo Matos Ph.D Animal nutritionist Research Embrapa Brazil

61 Renata Menasche Anthropologist Federal Un. of Rio Grande do Sul

Brazil

62 Prof. Luís César Nunes B.Sc Education PCRJ Brazil

63 Ventura Eduardo Souza Barbeiro Engineer agronomist ABRAMA Brasilian

association of Enviroment Brazil

64 Dr. Stefan Panaiotov Ph.D molecular microbiology National Center of

Infectious and Parasitic Diseas Bulgaria

65 Dr Thomas R. Preston Un. of Tropical Agriculture Cambodia

66 Dr. Sandra Awang Ph.D Sociologist/Writer on biodiversity biodemocracy

and food security Canada

67 Prof.em Henry Becker Ph.D 7 years in applied biology 35 years

teaching research in chemical engineering currently writing book on

nutrition health disease Queen s University Canada

68 Dr Warren Bell MD Canad. Assoc. of Physicians for the Environ. Canada

69 Prof. emeritus Alfred M. Braxton Anthropologist Univ. British

Columbia Canada

70 Denis Cauchon M.Sc. Ph.D. candidate Toxicology Ecole HEC Montreal

Canada

71 Dr. Samit Chakrabarty Ph.D Systems Neurophysiologist Canada

72 Yoon C. Chen B.Sc. DPM Podiatrist Foot Clinic Lethbridge Alberta

Canada

73 Bert R. Christie Plant Breeding Research Scientist Agriculture and

AgriFood Canada Charlotte Town Canada

74 Dr. E.Ann Clark Ph.D crop physiologist Plant Agriculture University

of Guelph Canada

75 Prof. Alain Cuerrier Taxonomy/Botany Quebec Univ. of Montreal Canada

76 Prof. Joe Cummins Geneticist University of Western Ontario Canada

77 Prof. Edwin E. Daniel FRSC Health Science McMaster Univ. Ontario

Canada

78 Justin Duncan B.Sc Environmental biology law and policy Queen's

University Canada

79 Prof. Chavez Eduardo R Ph.D Animal nutrition production and mangement

agricultural production systems McGill University Canada

80 Virginia F. Flamarique AMD Consultant Agrologist Edmonton Canada

81 Dr. Imme Gerke Ph.D Cell biologist BIOTEPP Canada

82 Julie Guenette M.Phil Philosophical enquiry into our relationship to

nature Ottawa University Canada

83 Tanya Handa M.Sc. Ecologist Univ. Toronto Toronto Canada

84 Virginia Jacobsen organic growers Canada

85 Aaron Jette Anthrolopogy student McGill Univ. Montreal Canada

86 Prof. Leonard Kasdan Ph.D Social Anthropology and Resource and

environmental studies Dalhousie University (retired) Canada

87 Dr. Gavin A. Kemp ret. Researcher Vegetable Crop Breeding Lethbridge

Canada

88 Zorica Knezevic M.Sc Senior Consultant Environment Stantec Consulting

Ltd Canada

89 Prof. Ronald Labonte Population Health Research Director Ontario

Canada

90 William J. Lewis Linguist Univ. of Victoria British Columbia Canada

91 Prof. Abby Lippman Epidemologist & Geneticist McGill Un. Canada

92 Prof. Ralph C. Martin Plant Science Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Truro Canada

93 Prof. Dennis R. McCalla Biochemist & Geneticist emeritus McMaster

University Hamilton Canada

94 Laura Mitchell Earth Scientist APEGBG Canada

95 Dr. Anne Morgan Waterloo Climate Change Entomolgist/ Univ. of

(retired) Canada

96 Dr. M. Murphy Pediatrician NAMBLA Canada

97 Dr. James A. Nero D.C. General Practitioner neuromusculoskeletal

medicine Coquitlam Canada

98 Anna D. Noikov B.A.B.Ed. B.A.B.Ed. Wholistic Practitioner Edmonton

Canada

99 Lise Norgren Concerned Consumer Canada

100 Prof. Ann Oaks Botany (retired) Univ. Guelph Canada

101 Steve Robak Canadian Department of National Defence Canada

102 Leslirae Rotor Economist consultant Ottawa Canada

103 Dr. Bassam Ismaeil Sam Ph.D Information Systems Ismaeil Consulting

Canada

104 Vere Scott ecologist Canada

105 Dr. John Scull Psychologist University of Victoria Victoria Canada

106 Dr. Carolyn A. Simmerman ND.DC Docotr. Whole Health Centre Edmonton

Canada

107 Prof. David Suzuki David Suzuki Foundation Geneticist U.B.C. Canada

108 Prof. Stephen Talmage Philospher (retired) Carleton University

Ottawa Canada

109 Dr. Wee Chong Tan Ph.D 5 years of reaserch and several papers on

sustainable farming and the dangers of GM foods Canadian College for

Chinese Studies Canada

110 Mark Thompson Ph.D student Molecular Evolutionary Genetics The

University of Calgary Canada

111 Noemi Tousignant M.Sc history of science technology and medicine

Canada

112 Caroll Tranchant Ph.D Enseignant chercheur Sciences et technologies

des aliments Canada

113 Dr. Pierre Turcotte Ph.D Plant breeder Canada

114 John B. Van Loon M.Sc. Storage Entomologist retired Canadian Grain

Commission Winnipeg PSRAST Canada

115 Roland Wilhelm B.Sc One who choses to think and take on problems

that effect the environment Guelph Canada

116 Prof. R.M. Wolfson Physicist Maharishi Vedic College Ottawa Canada

117 Prof. Howard Woodhouse Ph.D Philosopher of Education and Co Director

of Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit University of

Saskatchewan Canada

118 Dr. John C. Worketin Retired computer scientist Ontario Canada

119 Tea Garcia-Huidobro M.Sc Biochemistry (B.Sc) and Environmental

Technology (M.Sc) Chile

120 Dr. Alexander Jablanczy General Practitioner Doctor’s Building

Saulte Ste. Marie China

121 Dr. Jesse LiLing M.D Bioinformation Tsinghua University China

122 William Bingbin Lui Ph.D student I strongly support such an effort I

think both National and International legal regimes should accept this

open letter Law School Fudan Universitry Shanghai China

123 Elias Gomez Ph. D. student Dept. of Geology University of Cornell

Colombia

124 Damjan Bogdanovic Ph. D. student Un Zagreb Croatia

125 Prof. Marijan Jost Plant Geneticist Agricultural College Krizevci

Croatia

126 Damir Magdic Food Scientist Osijek Un Croatia

127 Dr. Zora Matrovic MD MD MS Vice-President Croatia Natural Law Party

Croatia

128 Vesna Samobor M.Sc. Agricultural College Krizevci Croatia

129 Prof. Drasko Seman Ecologist Univ. Zagreb Medical School Croatian

Man and Biosphere Committee UNESCO South Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Project UNESCO Comm. Ed. & Communication INCN European Committee on

Environmental Ed. IUCN Croatia

130 Prof Anton Svajger Un Zagreb Medical School Croatia

131 Prof. Valerije Vrcek Ph.D organic chemistry University of Zagreb

Croatia

132 Dr. Vladimir Zajac Ph.D oncovirology genetics microbiology Cancer

Research Institute Czechoslovakia

133 Henrik Westergaard Odense University Hospital Odense Denmark

134 Alexandra Almeida biochemist Accion Ecologica Ecuador

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137 Mahrous Kandil Ph.D student soil microbiology and concerning with

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138 Ahmed Said Mohamed Kamel sweet corn Egypt

139 Dr. Mohamed Salem Ph.D Molecular Plant Pathology Biological Control

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140 Prof. Fathy Mahmoud Salem Ph.D Professor of Nematology Faculty Of

Agriculture Shibin El Kom Minufiya Univ Egypt

141 Dr. Gennadi Kobzar Senior Scientist Biomedicine Institute of

Chemistry Tallinn Technical Univ. Estonia

142 Sue Edwards M.Sc botanist and scientific editor lover of all life

forms Institute for Sustainable Development Ethiopia

143 Dr. Tewolde Egziabher Agronomist Min. of the Environment

Spokesperson for African Region Ethiopia

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146 Dr. Thierry Baussant Biochemist Senior Scientist Pharmaceutical

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147 Dr. Jean-Pierre Berlan Directeur de Recherches INR/CTESI France

148 Dr. Luc G. Bulot Researcher ESA CNRS 6019- Centre de Sedimentologie-

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149 Dr. George Capouthier Biologist Univ. Paris France

150 Dr. Marie Christine BRGM Environment & Procedes Unite Biotechnologie

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152 Bertrand desClers M.Sc Scientific

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153 Dr. Jean Estrangin MK General Practice Grenoble France

154 Alain Fardif Certificat of therapist Paris France

155 PRAT Frederic B.Sc Information about GMO Geyser France

156 Dr. Du Bus De Warnaffe Ga Tan sustainable management of temperate

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157 Dr. Du Bus De Warnaffe Gaetan Ph.D Sustainable forest management

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158 BAZIN Jean Pierre B.Eng Medical Imaging INSERM France

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160 Dr. Herve Le Meur Biomathematician Univ. Paris France

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164 Dr. J. Pelt Institut Europeen d'Ecologie France

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167 Dr. Jean Staune Ph.D Post Darwinian Evolutionist Interdisciplinary

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169 Hudson Angeyo Ph.D student Physics: Analytical atomic spectroscopy

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172 Dr. Reinald Doebel Institute of Sociology Rural and Development Soc.

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175 Dr. Anita Idel Author and Zoologist Op’n Dorp 17 Barsbek Germany

176 Dr. Martha Martens Biologist Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e. V. Munich

Germany

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178 Dr. Werner Mittelstaedt President Future Research/Peace Studies

Gelsenkir Germany

179 Dr. Jennifer Schmid Ph.D Plant Ecology; Plant Population Genetic

OEko Institut e.V.; Institute for Applied Ecology Germany

180 Dr. Eckart Stein Physicist Univ. Regensburg Germany

181 Dr. Beatrix Tappeser Head of Dept. Risk analysis of genetic

engineering Institute for Applied Ecology Freiburg Germany

182 Dr. Stefan Thiesen Ph.D Astronomer and Geographer author of several

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183 Dr. Rebecca C. Wade Molecular Biology Heidelberg Germany

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185 Prince K.N Nkrumah B.Sc Biochemist Development and Advocacy

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188 Dr. Costas Giannakenas Consultant Nuclear Medicine Univ. Patras

Medical School Rion-Patras Greece

189 Prof. Tasos Kourakis B.Sc Geneticist Dept. General Biology &

Genetics Medical Faculty Aristotelian University Thessaloni Greece

190 Harry Papageorgiou M.Sc Agricultural Sciences Environmental Impact

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research council Greenland

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India

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Zoology and Director of School of Life Sciences Univ. Madras Chennai

India

199 Dr. Tushar Borse Ph.D Biochemistry University of pune India

200 candice coates M.Sc Lecturer in Biotechnology, Mumbai University.

India

201 Dr. Thomas S. Cox Research Geneticist U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Manhattan KS (retired) - present address Hyderabad India

202 Dr. Sudhir Kaura Ph.D Organic Farming Molecular Genetics Natural

Farming Network India

203 Dr. Nelson Kochappavu Ph.D Natural Health Rural health India

204 Prof Rayana Bhavan Kovutarapu M.Sc AgricultureNatural Resorces

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205 C. Nanjunda Murthy M.Sc. Plant Scientist Karnataka India

206 Satheesh P M.Sc Grassroots work on food security and organic

agriculture in dryland areas and gender Deccan Development Society India

207 Dr. N. Raghauram Plant Molecular Biology Univ. Mumbai India

208 Dr. Shreekant Sapatnekar M.D Community Medicine Haffkine Institute

Mumbai India

209 Dr. Chaitanya Sathe Ph.D industrial water pollution and waste water

treatment Hindustan Dorr oliver Ltd India

210 Dr. Bala Ravi Sekhara Pillai Ph.D Geneticist and Plant Breeder India

211 Sharad Shah Director of Ace natural foods Vadodara India

212 Devinder Sharma Geneticist Plant Breeder and Writer Forum for

Biotechnology and Food Security New Delhi India

213 Dr. Vandana Shiva Research Institute for Science and Ecology India

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215 Prof.em Durga Bhushaiah Vakkapatla M.Sc VIRAL RNA can be expressed

in cytosol on HIV infected T cells university of hyderabd India

216 Gustav Vaz B.Sc Biothechnology India

217 Gustavo Vaz B.Sc Biotechnology India

218 Erwin Adriawan B.Sc Campaigner on Anti GMOs Biotani Foundation

Indonesia

219 Dr. Ernawati Gender and Rural Development Institute of Rural

Development Indonesia

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worked for over 20 years in the Philippines I have written extensively

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Israel

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224 Dr. Andrea Amadei Molecular Biophysics Assistant professor Un. of

Rome Tor Vergata Italy

225 Prof. Drago Antonino B.Sc History of Physics Bioethics Scientific

Committe of Inter Univ. Center on Bioet Italy

226 Prof. Livia Armandi Ph.D Agronomist Italy

227 Dr. Ciro Aurigemma Ph.D psicologist member of csa CEU/IPV Italy

228 Dr. Giampiero Barbieri Ph.D Chemists GMO analysis laboratory

Stazione Sperimentale Industrie Conserve Alimentar Italy

229 Dr. Giovanni G Bazzocchi Ph.D Entomologist Agroecologist Universita

di Bologna Italy

230 Dr. Stefania Biondi M.Sc Plant Physiologist University of Bologna

Dept. of Biology Italy

231 Dr. Ernesto Burgio pediatrician attac Italy

232 Dr. Tiziana Camorani psicologa private Italy

233 Paola Capozzi plant and soil ecology Italy

234 Dr. Ferdinando Cerbone psicologo Italy

235 Dr Giorgio Cingolani Agricultural Economist Italy

236 Dr. Alberto Clarizia M.Sc Physicist University of Naples Italy

237 Dr. Raffaella Comito B.Sc General Practitioner holistic medicine

Italy

238 Dr. Immacolata Coraggio Ph.D Plant Molecular Biologist Counseil

National Research Italy

239 Dr. Bruno D'Udine Behaviour Ecologist University of Udine Italy

240 Dr. Simone De Ph.D Mathematics Combinatorics National Council of

Research Italy

241 Prof. Adriano Decarli Cancer Epidermiology INST Univ. Milan Italy

242 Prof. Stefano Dumontet M.Sc soil microbiologist Universit.

Basilicata Italy

243 Dr. Sergio Francardo B.Sc Anthroposofical medical doctor Gruppo

Medico Antroposofico Italiano Italy

244 Elena Del Grosso Geneticist Researcher Deptl Evolutionary & Exptl.

Biology Univ. Bologna Bologna Italy

245 Dr. Nicolas Kropacek M.D Public Health Free Lance Researcher Italy

246 Dr. Agostino Letardi M.Sc ecotoxicologist E.N.E.A. Italy

247 Prof. Ignazio Licata Full Professor of Theoretical Physics Ist

Cibernetica non lineare Italy

248 Dr. Marco Mamone Ph.D mathematician University of Perugia Italy

249 Prof. Marco Mamone Capria Ph.D mathematician historian of science

epistemologist University of Perugia Italy

250 Dr. Paolo Manzelli M.Phil Research in Education on Biochemistry LRE

EGO CreaNET University of Florence Italy Italy

251 Dr. Bussolati Mariella M.Sc science writer Italy

252 Dr. Karin Munck B.Sc comunication & science Fondazione Medikinale

International Parma Italy

253 Prof. Valeria NEGRI Ph.D geneticist teaches 'Agricultural Genetic

Resources' University of Perugia Italy

254 Prof. Francesco Palmirotta Ph.D psycho somatic clinicssocial work

AOP Italy

255 Dr. Francesca Salvemini Ph.D Biologist Consiglio Nazionale delle

Ricerche Italy

256 Prof. Leopoldo Silvestroni Endocrinologist Univ. of Rome Italy

257 Dr. Francesco Spinazzola M.D infectivologist Italy

258 Roberto Stefani Ph.D student Student of Political Science writing

final thesis on GMOs Greenpeace Italia Italy

259 Prof. emeritus Shingo Shibata Hiroshima University; Environmental

Sociology and Biosafety Tokyo Japan

260 Prof. Atuhiro Sibatani Molecular Biologist Osaka Japan

261 Dr Shiron Sugita Plant Geneticist Nagoya U. Japan

262 Dr Noboru Yagishita Plant Geneticist Jap. Assoc. Agro-Nature Tokyo

Japan

263 Dr Machiko Yasukohchi PLAN - International Japan Public Relations

Team Japan

264 Wycliffe Wanzala Ph.D student Naturalist University of Nairobi Kenya

265 Dr. Georges Mailliet B.Sc Pulmonologist Luxembourg

266 Mohd Roshdi Hassan M.Sc Smart Material university Putra Malaysia

Malaysia

267 Dr. Rosli Omar Ph.D Arificial Intelligence Universiti Malaya

Malaysia

268 Douglas Hinds Dir Gral Center for Community and Rural Development

National Coordinator for Organic Production National Confederation of

Rural Property Owners Dir of Sp CeDeCoR CNPR CSNI ISHS Mexico

269 Prof. Alberto R. Miranda Biologist Environmental Public Education

Cuernavaca Mexico

270 Rodriguez Mitchell Nemesio Anthropologist PNUD INI Mexico

271 Dr. Ronald Nigh Ph.D anthropology specialty in agroecology

biodiversity environment; member of SNI CIESAS Mexico

272 Dr. Enrique Vargas Ph.D Molecualr Immunology Universidad Veracruzana

Grupo L dico Mexico

273 Dr. Ilya Trombitsky Ph.D BIOTICA Ecological Society Moldova

274 Prof. Lahcen Kenny Ph.D Oraganic Agriculture and Horticulture IAV

Hassan II Morocco

275 Dr. Robert Anderson Physicist Nuclear Medicine Technical Institute

Hamilton New Zealand

276 David Baillie B.Sc Deep Ecologist Naturopath NZ Forest Gardening

Research Harmony Farmof Harmony Farm New Zealand

277 Dr. Troy Baisden Ph.D Ecosystem Science (Soil Science/Ecology)

Landcare Research New Zealand

278 Marie Buchler M.Sc Zoology masters editor and journalist and

university tutor Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association New

Zealand

279 Dr. George Coghill Software Engineering University of Auckland New

Zealand

280 Dr. Bernard Conlon B.Sc Rural GP New Zealand

281 Dr. Tim Ewer Physician Mapua Health Centre Nelson New Zealand

282 Dr. Michael Godfrey Environmental Toxicologist General Practitioner

Taura New Zealand

283 Sigrid D. Houlette B.Sc. B.Sc. Solid Waste Manager Environmental

Engineering Local Government Lower Hutt New Zealand

284 Jessica Hutchings Ph.D student Maori environmentalist Maori science

and resource management Lecturer Faculty of Science Victoria University

New Zealand

285 Dr. Peter King Ph.D Sociologist Family Centre Social Policy Research

Unit New Zealand

286 Dr. Nick Lambrechten Consultant Revegetation Ecologist Wellington

New Zealand

287 Dr. Shona L. Lamoureaux Plant Ecology Christchurch New Zealand

288 Helmut Lubbers M.Sc ecologist ecology discovery foundation new

zealand New Zealand

289 Dr Robert Mann Ecologist Auckland New Zealand

290 Dr. Ted Ninnes Ph.D Sociology and Psychology University of Waikato

New Zealand

291 Robin W. Ord Molecular Geneticist Law Student Hamilton New Zealand

292 Tara Satyanand M.Sc Molecular genetics University of Auckland New

Zealand

293 Dr. Sean Weaver Ph.D Environmental Policy Victoria University of

Wellington New Zealand

294 Dr Colin Wells Director of Energy Management Dept of Physics

University of Otago New Zealand

295 Katharine White I am an experienced artist and G E Free H B N Z

campaigner I am and have been in the position to put my graphic

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Hawke s Bay New Zealand

296 Dr Peter R Wills Theoretical Biology Univ. Auckland New Zealand

297 Prof. Leong Yap Ph.D Ergonomist Industrial Designer Massey

University New Zealand

298 Dr. Ralph Nwaokoro Ph.D ECOTOXICOLOGIST UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS Nigeria

299 Dr. Azeez Bolaji Odewenu M.Sc National association of science

students Nigeria

300 Dr Ingrid Olesen Senior Research Scientist Institute of Aquaculture

Res. Ltd Norway

301 Dr. Lars Rasmussen MD MD General Practitioner Univ. Oslo Mesnali

Norway

302 Prof. Terje Traavik Virologist University of Tromso Norway

303 Prof. Omer Khayyam M.Sc food research programe food research

Pakistan

304 Dr. Tasneem Rizvi Ph.D Molecular Biophysics. PCSIR Laboratories

Complex Lahore PAKISTAN. Pakistan

305 Ethel Japeth B.Sc none police Savings & Loan Papua New Guinea

306 Dr. Sergio Barrio Tarnawiecki Science Policy National Research

Council of Lima Peru

307 Javier M Claparols Agriculture Rice Sugar Aquaculture Milkfish

Bangus shrimp Businessman Ecologist Ecological Society of the

Philippines Philippines

308 Antonio M CLAPAROLS M.Sc Ecologist farmer marine and terrestial

biodiversity economics Ecological Society of the Philippines Philippines

309 Johnny Danganan B.Sc lay out artist in publications Sustainable

Agriculture advocate Philippines

310 Dr. Pamela G. Fernadez Agronomist U. Philippines Los Banos

Philippines

311 Ben Malayang University of Philippines Los Banos Laguna Philippines

312 Charles T. Olsen D.C. Chiropractic Clinic Davao Clinic PSRAST

Philippines

313 Prof. Marlon Pareja Ph.D student Cell and Molecular Biology Wildlife

Conservation Society of the Philippines Philippines

314 Nicanor Perlas B.Sc Agricultural Scientist and Ecologist Sustainable

Agriculture Specialist Center for Alternative Development Initiatives

Philippines

315 Dr. Romeo F. Quijano Pesticide Action Network

Pharmacologist/Toxiologist Philippines

316 Dr. Dante Jr Simbulan Ph.D Neurophysiology De La Salle University

Health Sciences Campus Philippines

317 Dr. Jaime A Sison Animal Nutrition and Feed Milling Aqua Ace

Nutrition Inc Philippines

318 Prof. Oscar B. Zamora Agronomist U. Philippines Los Banos

Philippines

319 Rui Pereira M.D General Practice Portugal

320 Teresa Silva Ph.D student Coconut Portugal

321 Dr. Margarida Silva Molecular Biologist Portuguese Catholic Univ.

Portugal

322 Dr. Franciso J.C.M. Teixeira Researcher Geophysics Geological and

Mining Institute Lisbon Portugal

323 Fatima C. Teixeira Researcher Marine Geology Lisbon Portugal

324 Carlos Altieri M.Sc Toxicity and pesticides in water Health

Environmental Department Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

325 Nelson Alvarez JD Sociologist and Lawyer Agriculture and development

consultant Puerto Rico

326 Dr. Clara Carrasco Ph.D Molecular Biology and Genetics Puerto Rico

327 Dr. Shridhar Devidas Ph.D Basically an Ecologist turned

environmental management system specialist advocating sustainable

resource use among the industires Bureau Veritas Qatar

328 Dr. Joseph Mezei M.D quantum medicine Medical Center Tongtian

Romania

329 Prof. Vladimir Kuznetsov Ph.D Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Institute of Plant Physiology RAS Russia

330 Dr. Ali Mohammed Ph.D Chief executive officer Companies Saudi Arabia

331 Prof. Vladimir Ajdacic Ph.D nuclear physics carcinogenecity none

retired Serbia

332 Peter Sevich Ph.D student Serbia

333 Glenn Ashton Director Ekogaia Foundation and Green Party South

Africa

334 Dr. Brigitte N.B. Schwabe-Berg Medical Officer Groote Schuur

Hospital Cape Town South Africa

335 Nicole Venter The Southern Health Ecology Institute SHAE Institute

South Africa

336 Dr. SangSoo Hur Ph.D Lecturer Sociology of Science and Technology

Sungkonghoe University South Korea

337 Prof. Suk Hwan Kim Ph.D Sociology of Science and Technology Kookmin

University South korea

338 Bingbin LU International Law Transnational Law and Business

University TLBU South Korea

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342 Prof. Ernest Garcia Ph. D. Ph. D. Sociology Univ. Valencia Dept.

Sociologia I Antropologia Social Valencia Spain

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344 Dr. Pablo Malo Psychiatrist Consultant Mental Health Center Bilbao

Spain

345 Jose Ramon Olarieta Ph.D Soil Science Agriculture Land use

Universitat de Lleida Spain

346 Dr. Rosario Sierra De Grado Ph.D Forest geneticist University of

Valladolid Spain

347 Dr. Jagath Perera B.Eng electrical engineering uom SriLanka Sri

Lanka

348 Dr. Kamal El Siddig Ph.D Tree eco physiologist Sudan

349 Dr. Isameldeen Khair Ph.D Education and training Sennar University

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350 Dr. Balgis Osman Elasha Ph.D Environmentalist Higher Council for

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351 Dr. Bo Dahlin Education Science Karlsbad University Karlsbad Sweden

352 Folke G Nther Ph.D student Sustainability issues and Ecological

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353 Prof. Every N. Gummesson Management Stockholm Univ. PSRAST Sweden

354 Folke Gunther Ph.D student Sustainability issues and Ecological

Engineering Systems Ecology Sweden

355 Said O. Holmin Lic. Technology Rector Computer Science College of

Creative Computer Science Stockholm Sweden

356 Dr. Katarina Leppanen History of Ideas Gothenburg Uni Sweden

357 Dr. Jaan Suurkula Physician Physicians and Scientists for

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358 Dr. Daniel Amman Cell Biologist Tech. Switzerland

359 Dr. Ruth Goseth Dermatologist ISDE Switzerland

360 Florianne Koechlin Biologist World Wildlife Fund Switzerland

361 Yvan Maillard dipl. Sc. Nat. ETH Environementalist Ecology Fribourg

PSRAST Switzerland

362 Yves Schatzle Agronomist and Economist Switzerland

363 Verena Soldati Biotechnologist Basler Appell Switzerland

364 Mwanaidi Kafuye M.Sc HOLDER IN BIOCHEMISTRY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR

MEDICAL RESEARCH Tanzania

365 Danial Minja B.Sc PARASITOLOGY & MICROBIOLOGY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR

MEDICAL RESEARCH. Tanzania

366 Acleus Rutta M.Sc Immunologist National Institute For Medical

Research Tanzania

367 Dr. Peter Burt Ph.D Water Quality Management Prince of Songkla

university Thailand

368 Prof. Omboom Luanratana Pharmacologist Univ. of Mahedol Bangkok

Thailand

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on Community & Biodiversity) Thailand

370 Prof. Reungchai Tansakul Ph.D Biologist Prince of Songkla University

Thailand

371 Lianchamroon Witoon Sustainable agriculture Biothai Thailand

372 Jaroen Compeerapap Environmental Law and Development Center The

Netherlands

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knowledge and African cultures Uganda Martyrs University Uganda

375 Dr. Michael L. Abrahams (retired) Aeronautics Bristol PSRAST UK

376 Michael Alexander M.Phil Theoretical Physics UK

377 Chris Anthony B.Sc Qualified amateur UK

378 Janey Antoniou M.Sc Molecular Biologist UK

379 Dr. Michael Antoniou Molecular Geneticist Guy's Hospital UK

380 Paula F. Baillie-Hamilton Academic Researcher on Pesticides

Perthshire UK

381 Dr. Susan Bardocz Geneticist Aberdeen UK

382 Dr. Jeremy Bartlett Plant Molecular Geneticist (formerly John Innes

Institute) UK

383 Manoel Bascoi Geneticist PhD Candidate JII UK

384 Dr. David Beasley Genetic Algorithm University of Bath UK

385 Dr. David Bellamy Biologist and Broadcaster London UK

386 Lynda Birke Biologist Liverpool Uni. Veterinary School UK

387 Dr. David A.H. Birley General Medical Practitioner Swindon UK

388 Sarah Blenkinsop B.Sc Environmental Consultant/Campaigner/Organic

grower Planet Services Environmental Consultancy UK

389 Gerard C. Bodeker Ed. D. Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health

Univ. Oxford Medical School UK

390 Dr. Jeffrey Boss Cell Biologist Dept. of Physiology Bristol

University UK

391 Sophie H. Bown Ph.D. Candidate Zoology Manchester Univ. UK

392 Paul Breslaw Computer Scientist Consultant Financial Research Forest

Row UK

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Southampton UK

395 Dr. Alessandra Cavalletti Ph.D Research Associate Imperial College

STM UK

396 Maureen Childs B.Sc Internet Developer British Computer Society UK

397 Emma Churchman B.Sc Social Scientist UK

398 Dr. Janet Cotter-Howells Environmental Geochemist Lecturer in Soil

Science Aberdeen University UK

399 Dr. Stephen Cross Molecular Population Geneticist Birmingham

University UK

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402 Stuart Daly Ph. D. student Transgenic group Charing Cross Hosp. UK

403 Dr. Yuliya Demydchuk Ph.D Molecular biology of producers of

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404 Dr. Mike Dodd Ecologist Open University UK

405 Prof. Jane Eberlynne M.Sc enviromental studdies conscerning health

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406 Joseph A. Gari Marie Curie Research Fellow Political Ecology

University of Oxford UK

407 Dr. Mike Gillman Ecologist Open University UK

408 Dr. Alassandro Gimona Research Scientist Ecology MLURI Aberdeen UK

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410 Zac Goldsmith Editor The Ecologist London UK

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412 Lale Gurel Bec. Manager Nature – Macmillan Publishers London UK

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414 Julian Haffegee M.phil Biophysicist Institute of Science in Society

UK

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Swansea UK

416 Dr. John E. Hammond Engineer Highfield UK

417 Dr. David J Heaf Biochemist Wales UK

418 Dr. Marion Hersch Assistive Electonic Technologies Dept. Electronics

& Electrical Engineering Univ. Glasgow Glasgow Scotland UK

419 Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Geneticist and Biophysicist Open University UK

420 Dr. Caroline Hoffmann Ph.D Ecotoxicologist Centre for Human Ecology

UK

421 Patrick Holden Director Soil Association UK

422 Dr. Vyvyan Howard Toxipathologist U. Liverpool UK

423 G. D. Humphreys M.Sc technologist aerodynamics UK

424 Gerald Humphreys B.Sc Aerodynamics Operational Research Information

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425 Dr. Brian Hursey ex FAO Senior Officer for Vector Borne Diseases

Neath UK

426 Prof. Tim Ingold Anthropologist University of Aberdeen UK

427 Lorna Jackson M.Sc Ecology soil science HDRA the organic

organisation UK

428 Magnus L. Johnson School of Science & Management U.C. Scarborough UK

429 Peter Preston Jones MSc Environomental Campaigner UK

430 Dani Kaye M.Sc. Scientists for Global Responsibility London UK

431 David Kaye M.Sc. Scientists for Global Responsibility London UK

432 Dr J. M. Kerr Bioethics Winchester College: Oxford U. UK

433 Dr. Philip Kilner Cardiac Imaging Specialist Royal Brompton Hospital

UK

434 Prof. Richard Lacey Microbiologist Leeds UK

435 Dr. Jonathan R. Latham Molecular Virologist previously JII and

Genetics Dept. Wisconsin-Madison Univ. Exeter UK

436 Dr. Colin L.A. Leakey Plant Geneticist Cambridge UK

437 Chris Lucas MIMIS Complexity Scientist CALResCo UK

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440 Druvananda Mauree B.Sc graphic designer school of design UK

441 Dr. Alan Mayne Statistician Scientists for Global Responsibility

London UK

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Engineering Univ. Manchester UK

443 Dr. Erik Millstone Science & Techology Policy Research Sussex Univ.

Brighton UK

444 Patrick Mulvany C Biol Food Security Policy Adviser specialising in

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(ITDG) UK

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446 Dr. Eva Novotny Astrophysicist Univ. Cambridge (retired) UK

447 Dr. David Packham Material Scientist U. Bath UK

448 Nicholas Papadimitriou M.Sc conservation and eco philosophy

Institute of science in society UK

449 Dr. Barnaby Peacocke Ph.D Agricultural Science International

Development ITDG UK

450 Fatima Pelica Biochemist PhD Candidate JII UK

451 Marcus Petz B.Sc Biology/Geology Environmental Politics UK

452 George Pilkington M.Sc Countryside management UK

453 Dr. Michel Pimbert Agricultural Ecologist International Institute

for Environment and Development London UK

454 Dr. Robert C. Poller Organic Chemist U. London UK

455 Dr. Malcolm Povey Ph.D Food Scientist Reader in Food Physics

University of Leeds UK

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457 Bala Puspa UK

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Faringdon UK

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College London UK

469 Vanessa Spedding M.Phil science and science policy journalism None

UK

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471 Prof. Ian Stewart Biomathematics U. Warwick UK

472 Dr. Gene S. Thomas Agriculturist UK

473 Simone Turchetti Ph.D student History of Science Technology and

Medicine CHSTM UK

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475 Dr Tom Wakeford Biologist U. of East London UK

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479 Dr. Karen Wren University teacher Geography St. Andrews Univ. St.

Andrews Fife UK

480 Linda Yeodal B.Sc MNIMH Medical Herbalist UK

481 Dr. JOHN ZARB Ph.D Small scale farming systems Senior Research

Fellow Newcastle University NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY UK

482 Dr. Grygoriy Petjuch Ph.D Ecology genetics Institute of Agroecology

and Biotechnology Ukraine

483 Nelson Alvarez JD Sociologist and Lawyer Agriculture and development

consultant Uruguay

484 Dr. Rayane Abusabha Senior Research Associate Department of

Nutrition College of Health and Human Development Penn State University

USA

485 Prof. Miguel A. Altieri Environment Science Policy and Management

Univ. Calif. Berkeley USA

486 Ruth Alviola Posadas M.Sc Aquaculturist State Food Safety Officer MS

DMR USA

487 Biff Appia autism USA

488 Dr. Catherine Badley Biologist University of Michigan USA

489 Dr. Britt Bailey Senior Researcher CETOS Ca USA

490 Prof. Phil Bereano Council for Responsible Genetics U. Washington

USA

491 Prof. Stephen Bialkowski Ph.D Analytical Environmental Chemistry

Department of Chemistry Utah State University USA

492 Dr. Walter Bortz Physician Palo Alto USA

493 Dr. Douglas H Boucher Ecologist Hood College USA

494 Nancy Brokaw Gerchak M.Sc Dedicated to finding Causes rather than

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USA

495 Claire Cabeza M.Sc Envionmental Scientist W.A.T.E.R.S. for Salmon

People USA

496 Dr. Neil J. Carman Clean Air Program Director Sierra Club Austin

Texas USA

497 Ricardo Carvajal Ph.D student agricultural ecology University of

Michigan USA

498 Liane Casten M.Phil M.Phil journalist and author on food pesticides

public policy public health etc. Chair Chicago Media Watch USA

499 Prof. Liebe F. Cavalieri Mathematical Ecology Evolution and

Behaviour Univ. Minnesota St. Paul USA

500 Claire Caveza M.Sc Project leader for Chum Salmon genetic sampling

fisheries biologist for Native American tribe in the Pacific NorthWest

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501 Vijaykumar V.C. Chalasani MS Consultant East Brunswick USA

502 Dr. Ignacio Chapela Microbiologist & Ecologist U.C. Berkeley USA

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507 Earth Duarte Trattner Ph.D student Social and Ecological Impacts of

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508 Dr. Chris Duffield Ph.D Visiting scientist Stanford University USA

509 Dr. David Ehrenfeld Biologist/Ecologist Rutgers University New

Jersey USA

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development The Nature Conservancy USA

511 Dr. Samuel Epstein School of Public Health Univ. Illinois Chicago

USA

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513 Prof. John B. Fagan Maharishi University of Management Fairfield

Iowa USA

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Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought USA

515 Dr. Ty Fitzmorris Ecologist Hampshire College USA

516 Dr Michael W Fox Veterinarian & Bioethicist Washington DC USA

517 Dr. Chris Francovich Ph.D Learning Through Participation Practice

Lightfiled Inc USA

518 Cynthia A. Frye FS/MS Student Biology Univ. Texas Medical Branch USA

519 Prof. John Garderineer Biologist U. Michigan USA

520 Dr. Barbara K. Given Faculty Researcher George Mason Univ. Fairfax

USA

521 Dr. Jay L. Glaser MK Medical Director Maharishi Ayurveda Medical

Center Lancaster USA

522 Dr Herve Grenier Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change Univ.

Washington USA

523 Dr. Gayle Robin Hamilton Assoc. Prof. Centre for the Advancement of

Public Health Fairfax VA USA

524 Rev. Dorothy A. Harper Biotethics Washington USA

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Nutrition at Bastyr University USA

526 Prof.em Kristi Harris B.Sc plant molecular biology murray state USA

527 Paul C. Helgeson BSME Senior Engineer Middleton WI USA

528 Prof. Martha Herbert Pediatric Neurologist Mass. Gen. Hosp. USA

529 Patrick Hickey Ph.D Resource renewability and quality of life Sedona

Recycles USA

530 Daniel J. Highkin Internist Vancouver Washington USA

531 Dr. Joseph Hilou Clinical Nutrition Chiropractic USA

532 Dale Hoover Organic food eater USA

533 Prof. emeritus John Hotchkiss Ph.D Ethnography of Indigenous

Botanical Systems USA

534 Dr. Paul Houle Ph.D Theoretical Physics USA

535 Dr. Philip H Howard Ph.D Rural Sociology Rural Coalition Washington

DC USA

536 Prof. Ruth Hubbard Biologist Harvard University USA

537 Andrew J. Hund Sociologist Arcata USA

538 Alex Jack Planetary Medicine Jushi Institute Becket Mass USA

539 Soraya Jacob student USA

540 Eric Jacobson Ph.D Medical anthropologist Dept. of Social Medicine

Harvard Medical School USA

541 Dr. Michael Janson General Practitioner Nutrition Cambridge USA

542 Emile C Joel B.Sc Research Chemist Retired Smithsonian Institution

USA

543 Robert W. Johnson Material Scientist DSM Desotech Elgin Illinois USA

544 Dr. Gary P. Kaplan Assoc. Prof. Neurology North Shore Univ. Hosp.

NYU School of Medicine Mass USA

545 Dr. Arlene M. Kellman D.O. Physician Tucson USA

546 Prof. Jonathan King Molecular Biology MIT Cambridge Council for

Responsible Genetics USA

547 Rev Thomas Klein Orthodox Priest USA

548 Dr Jack Kloppenburg Un. Wisconsin Rural Sociologist USA

549 Heidei A. Kratsch R.D./Graduate Student Plant Physiology Univ.

Wisconsin USA

550 Dr. Louis H. Krut MK CHB.:MD St. Louis Univ. Medical School Missouri

USA

551 U.V. Kutzli Ph. D. student U of Michigan USA

552 Dr. Marc Lappe Geneticist and Director CETOS Ca USA

553 Dr. Chris Lawrence Ph.D Extensive work in science education outside

the box USA

554 Dr. Herman Lerner M.D Nutritionally oriented physician USA

555 Dr. Barry Lia Ph.D sustainable agriculture USA

556 David Lindley USA

557 Sean Lyman Student Gettysbury College USA

558 A J Maimbourg Keen desire to see GM foods banned due to potential

health problems USA

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560 Hugh Mann non pharmaceutical health education organicMD org USA

561 Anne-Marie Mayer Ph. D. student Nutrition Cornell Univ. USA

562 Christine McCullum Ph. D. student Nutritional Sciences Cornell

University USA

563 Lynn V. McIndoo Student Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt

State Univ. Arcata USA

564 Dr. Dwight McKee M.D Am Board of Int Med certified in Internal

Medicine Medical Oncology and Hematology Strong background in clinical

nutrition immunology and holistic med USA

565 Vuejuin McKersen M.Sc Natural Resource Manager U. Michigan USA

566 Dr. Joan P Mencher Ph.D Culturao Anthropologist work on issues of

agriculture including sustainable agriculture primarily in India

Involved in fights against GMOs and issuesof the co Lehman College of

CUNY and CUNY graduate Center USA

567 Dr. Stephen L. Mikesell Anthropology and Political Ecology Univ.

Wisconsin Madison USA

568 Dr. Bill Misner Ph.D Nutrition E CAPS Inc USA

569 Leuren Moret Ph.D student Independent Scientist expert in radiation

and public health Past President Association for Women Geoscientist USA

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York USA

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College Valhalla New York USA

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575 Dr. Ingrid C. Northwood Biochemist Simon Fraser University USA

576 Dr. Ronald E. Openshaw Adjunct Faculty Geology Physics Maharishi

University of Management Fairfield USA

577 Trina Paulus food issues sculpture writing Hope For the Flowers USA

578 Marial Peelle Biol./Anthropologist Undergrad. Swarthmors College USA

579 Dr. Ivette Perfecto Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources

and Environment University of Michigan USA

580 Chris Picone M.Sc. Soil Microbiologist U. Michigan USA

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584 Dr. Caros R Ramirez Biologist St Lawrance University USA

585 Prof. Philip J. Regal Dept. Ecology Evolution and Behavior Univ.

Minnesota St. Paul USA

586 Corinna Richards Ph.D student sociologist (health and biotechnology)

AmbiguousMedia USA

587 Prof. R.H. Richardson Professor of Integrative Biology University of

Texas Austin USA

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592 Dr. Peter M. Rosset Ins. for Food and Development Policy USA

593 Prof. Philip B. Rudnick Emeritus Chemistry West Chester Univ.

Pennsylvania PSRAST USA

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596 Dr. Barnett Salzman M.D 30 yrs of medical research expertise public

health board cert psychiatrist USA

597 Thomas J. Saunders Student Environmental Science Humboldt State

Univ. Arcata USA

598 Dr. Stephen Scanlan Ph.D Global inequalities international

development and food security University of Memphis Department of

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599 Dr. Derek Scholes Ph.D Geneticist New York State Dept of Health USA

600 Dr. Nancy A Schult Entomologist U of Wisconsin-Madison USA

601 Dr. Brian Schultz Ecologist Hampshire College USA

602 Dr. Kathy Schwab Health Researcher MPH RD LD Center for Health

Research Portland Oregon USA

603 Prof. David Schwartzman Geochemist Howard Uni. Washington DC USA

604 John Scibetta B.Sc Protein Chromatography Amersham Pharmacia Biotech

USA

605 Dr. Linda Jean Sheperd Biochemist Gaia Blessings USA

606 Colleen Sheppard Wholistic Energy Therapist USA

607 Prof. Michael Sheridan Ph.D Environmental Anthropologist Middlebury

College USA

608 Dr. Jacob Silver Ph.D Political Scientist Social Analyst Huron

Mountain Research Services USA

609 Witold Skiba Ph.D Theoretical Physics MIT USA

610 Dr. Gerald Smith Zoologist U. Michigan USA

611 Kim Smith I consume only organic food and desire to see a ban put on

GM as soon as possible USA

612 Dr. John Soluri Historian of Science Carnegie Mellon U USA

613 Doreen Stabinsky Geneticist International Environmental Politics and

Policy California State University at Sacrament USA

614 Irl Stalcup Corporate Training LA County Dept of Parks and

Recreation USA

615 Emma Steen Dietician (retired) Portland USA

616 Dr. Jesse Stewart concernment for the application of education and

assuring the liberty freedom and unity in life F F H USA

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619 Prof. John Vandermeer Biologist Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor USA

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621 Susan Vegors Psychologist Consultant Solutech Indianapolis USA

622 Prof. Robert Vernon Heimer Ph.D The study of brain chemistry during

psychotic episodes none USA

623 Prof. Kenneth G. Walton Neurochemist Vedic Medicine Maharishi Univ.

IA USA

624 Dr. Bruce West Ph.D DC Editor Health Alert Most renowned expert in

the use of phytonutrients for cardiac patients with more patients than

any living doctor Health Alert Newsletter USA

625 Ryan White Student St Lawrence University USA

626 Paul Whitson M.Sc healthcare administrator USA

627 Dr. George M. Woodwell Director The Woods Hole Research Center USA

628 Dr. Suzanne M. Wuerthele Toxicologist Toxicology & Risk Assessment

federal regulatory agency Denver USA

629 Dr. John Zamarra M.D. Cardiology Fullerton USA

630 Dr. M Zamir Ph.D Research Scientist University USA

631 Prof. Miguel Angel Nunez M.Sc 14 years working and researching in

Agroecological Scienes in the tropical areas of Latin America IPIAT

Venezuela

632 Julio Eduardo Perez Genetics of Marine Organisms Universidad de

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