Contamination advancing the GM industry's agenda

Don't Cry to Them, Argentina: Is Monsanto playing fast and loose with Roundup Ready Soybeans in Argentina? (Kelly Hearn, GRIST, Oct-2006)

Harvesting Royalties for Sowing Dissent? Monsanto's Campaign against Argentina's Patent Policy (by Rachel Nellen-Stucky and François Meienberg, Berne Declaration, Oct-2006)

Brazil to swap illegal GMO soy for legal GMO in state (Dow Jones, Sep-2006)

Soy imports delayed as Argentina fights Monsanto over GM (Ahmed El-Amin, NutraIngredients, May-2006)

2005 was a very good year for the biotech food industry (Peter Montague, Rachel's Democracy & Health News #837, Jan-2006)
"Who cares if GMO seeds don't provide any of the benefits that were promised? Certainly not the seed companies. Perhaps benefits to the people of the world were never the point. Perhaps the point was to get those first GMO crops in the ground -- promise them the moon! -- and then allow nature to take its course and contaminate the rest of the planet with patented pollen. The intellectual property lawsuits will come along in good time. Patience, dear reader, patience. Unlike people, corporations cannot die, so our children or our grandchildren may find themselves held in thrall by two or three corporations that have seized legal control of much of the world's food supply by getting courts (backed by the threat of force, as all courts ultimately are) to enforce their intellectual property rights."

Monsanto takes its efforts to extract more roylaties in Argenina to Europen courts, meanwhile it raises prices for seeds in Brazil (Various, Sep-2005)

Royalty saga continues in South America over GM soybeans (various articles, May-2005)
Spanish and English

US States Passing Laws to Block Local GMO-Free Ordinances (The Non-GMO Report 5(4), Apr-2005)

Argentina: Monsanto accused of behaving like a "gangster" (Various articles in English, Spanish and French, Mar-2005)

End of Brazil GMO ban to curb rampant black market (Resse Ewing, Reuters News Service, Mar-2005)

Brazil Court Rules in Favour Of U.S. Monsanto in GM Seed Royalties Case (Latin America News Digest, Feb-2005)

Paraguay: Habrá nueva negociación con Monsanto sobre transgénicos, Monsanto clinches seed royalty deal (ABC Color Digital and St. Louis Business Journal, Feb-2005)

34,358 Brazilian Farmers Declare GM Soy Seeds (Latin America News Digest, Feb-2005)
The declarations submitted by January 18, 2005 accounted for only 0.22 pct of Brazil's total area to be sown under soybean in the 2004/05 season and for 1.0 pct of the total expected soybean output for the season.

The Laws of Nature: A New Chapter in Biotech History is not Written in English (Ignacio Chapela, Counterpunch, Jan-2005)

Monsanto, Royalties and Farmers (Campaign For a GM-Free Brazil, Jan-2005)

Brazilian court temporarily halts Monsanto royalties (Reuters, Jan-2005)

Strategic Diagnostics delivers second generation test to detect the use of unauthorized GMO soybeans in Brazil (SDI Press Release, Jan-2005)
No doubt Monsanto is the unnamed SDI sutomer. Another step in the construction of Monsanto's strategy for collecting royalties outside of the overdeveloped world.

India: Mill in Vadodara raided, bootleg Bt cotton seized (Express India, Dec-2004)

Principio de acuerdo en Argentina sobre las regalías de las semillas (Agrodigital.com, Secretaría de Agricultura, Dec-2004)
Triunfo de Monsanto en Argentina (Un regalo de papá Noel para las corporaciones)

European Economic and Social Committee (Co-existence between genetically modified crops, and conventional and organic crops, Dec-2004)
Among a number of important observations and conclusions in the report, the EESC maintains: "in regions with small-scale agriculture, parallel cultivation within a region appears to be impracticable."

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Trespass: Genetic Engineering as the Final Conquest (Claire Hope Cummings, WorldWatch Magazine, January/February 2005, Dec-2004)
From the article: "At the end of my inquiry I came to the conclusion that genetic engineering, at least as it is being used in agriculture is, by design, inherently invasive and unstable. It has been imposed on the American public in a way that has left us with no choice and no way to opt out, biologically or socially."

http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/

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Argentina: Monsanto insistirá con el cobro de regalías por la soja, Advirtió que pretende US$ 3 por tonelada (La Nacion, Dec-2004)
Monsanto renews threats to collect royalties on exports of soybeans from Argentina at ports where patents are recognised. Says it will charge exporters US$3 per tonne.

Can GM And Non – GM Crops Be Segregated In India – Is Coexistence Possible? (Suman Sahai, Gene Camapign; New Delhi, Dec-2004)

Illegal seeds overtake India's cotton fields ( K.S. Jayaraman, Nature, Nov-2004)

How the US Government is Planning to Approve Contamination of the World’s Food Supply with Experimental GM Crops (Friends of the Earth International, Briefing Paper, Nov-2004) (250 kb) (grain.org/research/?id=240)

Argentina struggles with Roundup Ready soybean royalties (Steven Lewis, Food Chemical News, Nov-2004)

Brazil govt body allows 1% GMO contamination on cotton seed lots (OsterDowJones Commodity Wire, Nov-2004)

Controversial Dutch co-existence rules (Reuters and IFOAM, Nov-2004)

Another biotech battle looms in Brazil (Steven Lewis, Food Chemical News, Nov-2004)

Thailand's next steps (Shawn W. Crispin, Far Eastern Economoc Review, Oct-2004)

Monsanto's ongoing moves in the Soutehrn Cone: Company bullies into Paraguay and Brazil, and looks for more royalties (Various articles, Oct-2004)

Argentina 's torrid love affair with the soybean (Lilian Joensen and Stella Semino, Seedling, October 2004, Oct-2004)
Follow the title link for the English article. The report in Spanish (.pdf) by the same authors, "Argentina: estudio de caso sobre el impacto de la soja RR" can be downloaded below.

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Paraguai vai pagar por transgênicos (O Estado de S. Paulo, Oct-2004)

Valor do royalty da soja GM dobra e produtor gaúcho protesta ( Sinara Sandri e Marcelo Teixeira, Reuters, Oct-2004)

Rice at Risk: Will there be a choice with GE Rice? (Greenpeace International, Oct-2004) ( 1.0 MB)

Argentina: polémica millonaria por un gen de soja transgénica (El Litoral Vespertino, 13/09/2004, Oct-2004)

http://www.biodiversidadla.org/article/articleview/5785/1/7 /

Note: Click title link for English translation

Monsanto ups effort to collect GMO royalties in Argentina (Taos Turner, Dow Jones, Sep-2004)

La pelea por las regalías ira a fondo y será un (AgroDiario.com.ar, Sep-2004)

Proposed biosafety legislation and court decision could pave the way for more GM in Brazil (Various articles compiled by Gaia, Sep-2004)

Europe gives GM seed green light (BBC News, Sep-2004)

EU authorises first GMO seeds for commercial use (Reuters, Sep-2004)

Taking Care of Business: The CGIAR and GM Contamination (ETC Group, Aug-2004)
ETC Group uncovers how the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is huddling with the biotech industry (including Monsanto and DuPont) to craft a policy response to GM contamination

A compilation of quotes on GM contamination Aug-2004

RE: Labeling threshold for GM-contamination in non-GM seed (Various European farmers organisation and NGOs, Jul-2004)
Letter to European Commission President Prodi and Commissioners Fischler (Agriculture) and Wallstrom (Environment) on threshold limits for GMO content in non-GM seed

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Percy Schmeiser found guilty of violating Monsanto patent, but claims moral victory (GRAIN, May-2004)
(GRAIN commentary, plus personal statement by Percy Schmeiser and relevant links)

Syngenta: le maïs doux OGM autorisé par Bruxelles ne sera pas vendu en Europe (Agrisalon.com, May-2004)

Percy Schmeiser - the man that took on Monsanto (Interview with The Ecologist, May-2004)
Provides Schmeiser's perspective on contamination

OGM: la réglementation européenne sur l'étiquetage est effective (AFP, Apr-2004)
Français

Piracy on the High Plains ( Mark Tatge, Forbes, USA, Apr-2004)
Article provides some detail of Monsanto efforts to stop seed saving in Brazil, Argentina and India

Bayer backs away from commercialising its GM maize in the UK, several articles (FT, Independent, Nouvel Observateur, Mar-2004)
(English, Français)

Monsanto eyes royalties on Latam soy imports to US (Richard Cowan, Reuters, Mar-2004)

Interview de Hugh Grant, PDG de Monsanto (Les Échos, Mar-2004)
Français

Argentina Announces Corporate Welfare for Monsanto (ETC Group, Feb-2004)

Argentina: The Last Roundup, with an excerpt by Jorge Eduardo Rulli of the Grupo de Reflexión Rural of Argentina translated by Ricardo Ramirez (Brewster Kneen, Feb-2004)
(Ram's Horn, 217)

Protecting Seed Rights: DNA checks eyed to bar illegal farm trade Feb-2004
(The Japan Times)

Brazil soy trade to pay Monsanto royalties (Reese Ewing, Jan-2004)

NAFTA Pact Limits Reporting Requirements For Biotechnology; Billed as Global Model (John Nagel, Jan-2004)
(The Bureau of National Affairs, International Environment Daily, USA)

Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on the Co-existence of Genetically Modified Crops with Conventional and Organic Crops (GMCC-03) : GM Crops and Co-existence Nov-2003
(Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Flakkebjerg)

Legalization of GM crops appears imminent (Inter Press Service, Nov-2003)

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