GMO articles from the Sac Bee

[Guest guest]

with the recent biotech conference being held in SF, the Sacramento Bee did a

series of articles on GMO and the like

AND, they handed out stacks of free newspapers outside of the Moscone center.

 

 

Seeds of Doubt Introduction:

http://www.thecampaign.org/sacbee0.html

 

1) Mali's People Reap No Reward For Cloned Wild-Rice Gene:

http://www.thecampaign.org/sacbee1.html

 

2) Globe-Trotting Genes - Welcome Or Not, Modified Strains Pop Up In Crops

Near And Far:

http://www.thecampaign.org/sacbee2.html

 

3) Biotech Industry Funds Bumper Crop Of UC Davis Research:

http://www.thecampaign.org/sacbee3.html

 

4) Scattered Efforts - California Plays Little Part In The Patchwork That

Oversees Biotech Crops:

http://www.thecampaign.org/sacbee4.html

 

5) Grocery Quandary - For U.S. Shoppers, A Lack of Labels Limits Choice On

Biotech Foods:

http://www.thecampaign.org/sacbee5.html

 

 

Grocery Quandary - For U.S. Shoppers, A Lack of Labels Limits Choice On

Biotech Foods

 

By Edie Lau -- Bee Staff Writer

 

Sacramento Bee

Published Thursday, June 10, 2004 -- Last of five parts

 

Grocery shopping was going smoothly until Lori Brennan stopped for soy milk.

 

Studying the shelves at a natural foods market in Grass Valley this spring,

Brennan found her options mind-boggling. Some of the drinks carried the

organic seal, some did not. All but one new variety were sweetened. A brand

on sale caught Brennan's interest, but it bothered her that the package said

nothing about whether the soy was genetically modified.

 

Brennan, a 57-year-old registered nurse with a zeal for eating healthfully,

sighed. " It's not easy to be a consumer, " she said.

 

Not long afterward, in the aisle of a London grocery store, Sylvia Slark

picked up a plastic container of seedless grapes and dropped it in a basket.

A label on the container clearly read: " Naturally contains no GM products. "

 

" I'm fussy about what I eat, " said Slark, an office manager for a nightclub.

" Choice is important to me. "