Biotech Crop Harvest Comes Amid Discord
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Farmers around the globe planting genetically engineered crops enjoyed another bumper harvest last year even as political and financial pressure mounted from skeptical consumers in Europe and pockets of the United States, an industry-supported group said Wednesday.
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FARMERS are being invited to find out about con
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In biotech investing, it pays to close your ears to all the hubbub.
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When Monsanto decided to take Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser to court for using its seeds, the US biotech giant didn't know it was creating a folk hero for the anti-GM crop movement.
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.
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Opponents of biotech  crops said on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit to challenge  the USDA's deregulation of Monsanto Co's genetically engineered  sugar beet because of fears of "biological contamination" and  other harm to the environment.
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Biotech crop critics said  they were asking for a permanent injunction to stop the  planting of Monsanto Co.'s genetically modified alfalfa after  failing to negotiate a settlement with U.S. regulators by a  court-imposed deadline on Friday.
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PARIS, Aug 19 (IPS) - A report by the French food security agency AFSSA  that  highlights the benefits of transgenic crops was received  with scepticism in  local scientific circles, where experts noted  the ambiguity of the study's  own conclusions.
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The European Union approved on Wednesday the first biotech seeds for planting and sale across EU territory, angering green groups who maintain they could contaminate other crops.
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Many in the beet industry have taken the trade deal, a pact with Central American countries signed by the administration, as a sign of fading support for sugar protections, and they are fighting back.
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With record yields forecast, sugar beet growers may have to limit what they harvest.
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Darkening skies and a light morning drizzle blanketed the fields while combines harvested corn and tractor-trailers hauled away this year's crop. Even though he knew what was coming, Brian Watkins hopped out of his pickup truck and stepped into his office to check the weather forecast on his computer.
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Genzyme and Millenium vie to purchase the Canadian biotech.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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BASF's Amflora off the menu The European Union's Council of Ministers last week delivered a serious blow to biotech companies' ambitions to roll out GM crops across the region by postponing a decision on the "commercial optimisation" of BASF's Amflora "genetically optimised potato".â¦
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Monsanto Co. MON.N, a  company that has pioneered the development of bioengineered  crops, is pushing hard to recover millions of dollars in lost  revenue in three South American countries where farmers have  sown its wonder seeds without paying royalties.
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French ministers tried on Tuesday to calm  tensions following the government's decision to ban cultivation  of the sole genetically modified (GMO) crop grown in the  country, stressing that the move was temporary.