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Genetic Engineering - Dream or Nightmare?

JoAnn Guest

Dec 19, 2003 11:06 PST

 

Resources: Avoiding GMOs

" Genetic engineering biotechnology is an unprecedented intimate

alliance

between bad science and big business, which will spell the end of

humanity as we know it, and of the world at large. "

 

 

 

from Genetic Engineering - Dream or Nightmare?

by Dr. Mae Wan Ho, a British scientist

 

Article Links (before 2003)

2003 Article Links

 

Greenpeace True Food Network

http://www.truefoodnow.org/gmo_facts/product_list/

 

Mothers For Natural Law - What to Eat, How to Shop

http://www.safe-food.org/-consumer/shop.html

 

On The Market

Genetically engineered crops allowed in the US food supply

 

 

Canola

Aventis

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

2000

Canola

Monsanto

Resist glyphosate herbicide to control weeds

Arabidopsis, bacteria, virus

Roundup Ready

 

1999

Canola

Monsanto

Altered oil (high lauric acid) for soap and food products

Calif bay, turnip rape, bacteria, virus

Laurical

 

1995

Chicory (radicchio)

Bejo Zaden

Male sterile to facilitate hybridization

Bacteria

SeedLink

 

1997

Corn

Aventis

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds/male sterile to

facilitate

hybridization

Bacteria, virus

SeedLink

Date unknown

 

Corn

Aventis

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus

LibertyLink

Date unknown

 

Corn

Aventis

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds/Bt toxin to control

insect

pests (European corn borer)

Bacteria, virus

StarLink

 

1998

Corn

Dow/Mycogen Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Corn, bacteria, virus

NatureGard

 

1995

Corn

Dow/Mycogen/DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds/Bt toxin to control

insect

pests (Lepidopteran)

Corn, bacteria, virus

Herculex I

 

2001

Corn

DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred

Male sterile to facilitate hybridization

Potato, corn, bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

Corn

Monsanto/DeKalb

Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Bacteria Bt-Xtra

 

1997

Corn

Monsanto/DeKalb

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus

Name, date unknown

 

Corn

Monsanto

Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Bacteria

YieldGard

 

1996

Corn

Monsanto

Resist glyphosate herbicide to control weeds/Bt toxin to control

insect

pests (European corn borer)

Arabidopsis, bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

1998

Corn

Monsanto

Resist glyphosate herbicide to control weeds

Arabidopsis, bacteria, virus Roundup Ready

 

1998

Corn

Syngenta

Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Bacteria Bt11

 

1996

Corn

Syngenta

Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Corn, bacteria, virus

Knock Out

 

1995

Corn (pop)

Syngenta

Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Corn, bacteria, virus

 

Knock Out

1998

Corn (sweet)

Syngenta

Bt toxin to control insect pests (European corn borer)

Bacteria Bt11

 

1998

Cotton

Monsanto/Aventis

Resist bromoxynil herbicide to control weeds/Bt toxin to control

insect

pests (cotton bollworms and tobacco budworm)

Bacteria

Name unknown

 

1998

Cotton

Monsanto/Aventis

Resist bromoxynil herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus BXN Cotton

 

1995

Cotton

Monsanto Bt toxin to control insect pests (cotton bollworms and

tobacco

budworm)

Bacteria

Bollgard

 

1995

Cotton

Monsanto

Resist glyphosate herbicide to control weeds

Arabidopsis, bacteria, virus

Roundup Ready

 

1996

Flax

University of Saskatchewan

Resist sulfonylurea herbicide to grow in soils with herbicide

residues

Arabidopsis, bacteria CDC

Triffid

 

1999

Papaya

Cornell University/University of Hawaii

Resist papaya ringspot virus

Bacteria, virus Sunup, Rainbow

 

1997

Potato

Monsanto

Bt toxin to control insect pests (Colorado potato beetle)

Bacteria

NewLeaf

 

1995

Potato

Monsanto

Bt toxin to control insect pests (Colorado potato beetle)/resist

potato

virus Y Bacteria, virus

NewLeaf Y

 

1999

Potato

Monsanto

Bt toxin to control insect pests (Colorado potato beetle)/resist

potato

leafroll virus Bacteria, virus

NewLeaf Plus

 

1998

Soybean

Aventis

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

1998

Soybean

DuPont

Altered oil (high oleic acid) to increase stability, reduce

polyunsaturated fatty acids

Soybean, bean, bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

1997

Soybean

Monsanto

Resist glyphosate herbicide to control weeds

Petunia, soybean, bacteria, virus

Roundup Ready

 

1995

Squash

Seminis Vegetable Seed

Resist watermelon mosaic 2 and zucchini yellow mosaic viruses

Bacteria, virus

Freedom II

 

1995

Squash

Seminis Vegetable Seed

Resist watermelon mosaic 2, zucchini yellow mosaic, cucumber mosaic

viruses Bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

1997

Sugarbeet

Aventis

Resist glufosinate herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

2000

Sugarbeet

Monsanto/Syngenta

Resist glyphosate herbicide to control weeds

Bacteria, virus

Name unknown

 

1999

Tomato (cherry)

Agritope

Altered ripening to enhance fresh market value

Bacteria

Name unknown

1996

Tomato

 

DNA Plant Technology

Altered ripening to enhance fresh market value

Tomato, bacteria, virus

Endless Summer

 

1995

Tomato

Monsanto/Calgene

Altered ripening to enhance fresh market value

Tomato, bacteria, virus FlavrSavr

 

1994

Tomato

Monsanto

Altered ripening to enhance fresh market value

Bacteria

Name unknown

 

1995

Tomato

Zeneca/PetoSeed

Thicker skin and altered pectin to enhance processing value

Tomato, bacteria, virus

Name unknown

1995

 

Notes on regulation and product names

All crops listed above required a determination from the US

Department

of Agriculture (USDA) that they were not plant pests under the

Federal

Plant Pest Act.

 

Bt crops, in addition to USDA regulation, were approved by the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Federal Insecticide,

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and

Cosmetic

Act.

 

Before most of the herbicide-resistant crops could enter the food

supply, EPA registered the herbicide for use on the new crop.

Sulfonylurea-resistant flax is the exception because the herbicide

is

not to be sprayed on the crop. Sulfonylurea-resistant flax is to be

planted only in soils containing sulfonylurea residues.

 

Although not required, all products were the subject of voluntary

consultations with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about food

safety. FDA required labeling of two products —- canola and soybean

with

altered oils - because the agency considered the oils to be

significantly different from nonengineered canola and soy oil. The

required labels do not divulge that the oils were obtained from

genetically engineered crops.

 

To the extent they are known, the chart lists trade names or company

designations for crops at the time they finished the regulatory

process.

Once a crop is commercialized and licensed to other companies, it

may be sold under many other names.

 

Not all crops allowed on the market are currently for sale. In some

cases, engineered crops, such as the FlavrSavr tomato and StarLink

corn, may no longer be available commercially.

 

 

 

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