Network of Concerned Farmers

*New*
Rigged trials
Legal Letter
GM Crops: Risks and Risk Management Required
Agronomics and Economics of GM Canola

1. Key issues
Summary and Overview
10 main NCF concerns
Farmers misled
Q & A for school projects
What is the drive for GM crops?
Links to other issues
Scientific concerns summary
The future - 2020?
What is expected of non-GM growers in Canada
Beyond the Bulldust
*Unfair liability*
Pressures in GM debate
Questions regarding risk management
Genetic engineering – a crop of hyperbole
Agronomics and Economics of GM canola

2. GM crops banned
Monsanto Crop Management & Resistance Management Plans
Why Australia is not prepared for commercial trials
Monsanto's GM Roundup Ready canola
Bayer Cropscience's GM Invigor canola
Where to now?
State legislation - moratoria

3. Market issues
Canola markets
Zero tolerance of GM contamination is market demand
Wheat will be impacted
Higher prices for non-GM canola
Contamination scare affects market
Japanese requirements
Consumer polls & market rejection
Effects of GM contamination in canola
EU will not tolerate acceptance of tolerance levels
What our marketers say
How and when non-GM premiums started

About us
Network Policy & Objectives
NCF Funding
NCF History
NCF profile: Julie Newman
NCF profile: Juliet McFarlane
Early work

Canola
What is canola?
Statistics - yields
GM Canola Factsheet
Canadian farmers nervous about GM canola acceptance in Japan
Letter from Japan

Coexistence & Segregation
Crop Management Plans for non-GM grower
Farmer to farmer Hypothetical
Segregation and coexistence plans
Seed industry allows 0.5% contamination
Canadian grain segregation
Zero tolerance is market demand
European coexistence report
Identity preservation and segregation
What is expected of non-GM growers in Canada
Testing protocol
Labels for GM contamination
EU will not accept contamination
Proposed Stewardship Program for Canola
Contract harvester problems
Crop management plans

Consumer concerns
Is GM food safe?
Churches - 10 reasons against GM
Scientific concerns
Cross Kingdom Breeding
Food safety testing inadequate
Environmental effects
13 Science based reasons for GM-free
Myths about the Digestion of Proteins and DNA
5 part series covering issues
Health Risk
Reason for Schools to ban GM Foods
Monsanto's feeding studies
FSANZ answers regarding food testing
Scientific report on safety testing
Trespass report
Scientific concerns
Consumer concerns summary
GM food lecture
Monsanto
Seeds of Concern
Public attitudes to GM food
Scrambling and gambling with the genome
L-tryptophan - A Deadly Epidemic
Protestors (photos)
GM health concerns in brief
Inadequate health testing for GM canola
Russian study showing high death rates in offspring
Pusztai debate
Hidden uncertainties - risks of GMOs
Study shows GM eating Americans sicker than non-GM eating English
Scientists see spike in kids' food allergies
Latest GMO Research: Decreased Fertility, Immunological Alterations and Allergies
Key health papers of concern
Do we really know what we are doing?

Contamination
Contamination is uncontrollable (photos)
Gene transfer & cross-pollination
GM product recalls
Environmental contamination (photos)
Confronting contamination & co-existence
Invigor canola outcrossing
Gene Stacking = Super Weed
AOF contamination report
History of how Bayer Cropscience caused contamination of non-GM canola in Australia
Fighting GMO contamination around the world

Corporate control
Corporate control
Corporate Engineering in Public Debate
Commercial influence on science
In (Seed) Bed Together
The drive behind GM Crops
Cartoon
IP And Genetically Modified Organisms: A Fateful Combination
Commercial influence on science
Made by Monsanto

Costs and liabilities
Costs to non-GM farmers
Non-GM Liable for Contamination?
Liability issues associated with GM crops - AFFA
Supplying non-GM requires certification
Liability questions answered
More on liability
*Farmer liability*
Liability and GM crops

Economics
No economic benefit for farmers
Economic Recommendations
Economic Critique
Why has the OGTR ignored economics?
Australian farmers can not afford GM crops
What benefit?
Higher plant yields better or worse for farmers?
Effects of GM contamination in canola
Global seed industry concentration
Canada versus Australia comparison
No farmer economic gain for pharmaceutical crops
NCF: Economics of GM canola ***
Agronomics and Economics of GM Canola

Farmer attitudes
Australian farmer surveys
Farm lobby group policies
Victorian ALP policy
GCA farm lobby group policies

GM / Non-GM difference
What is GM / Non-GM?
GM plant breeding not faster
Will the industry be in crisis without GM?
Why GM is different
Non-GM biotech is the future

GM canola
Will GM canola yield more in Australia?
Comparison between Canadian and Australian canola conditions
Are GM chemicals safer, cheaper or more efficient?
How much GM canola is grown in Canada?
Canadian and Australian canola statistics
Economics of GM canola

GM crops
Public good or corporate control?
Misleading claims over GM
ISAAA GM crop areas misleading
Use of GM crops
GM crops and chemical use
Multiple spray applications vs yield penalty
Yield problems - links
GM cotton failures
Global yields
Pharmaceutical crops
Global Trends in GM Crops
Who benefits from GM crops?

GM crops experience
Canadian Farmers viewpoint
American farmers viewpoint
American Corn Growers experience
Argentina faces serious problems
Report on North American Experience
Canadian organic farmers
Argentina & GM soy - success at what cost?
How is industry managing non-GM now?
India, Bulgaria, Indonesia
Monsanto vs US farmers
Global GM adoption
US farmers warned of GM Liability
Farming news links
GM-growing US faces agricultural trade deficit
GM soy in US not considered food grade
Monsanto in Argentina
GM soy war in Paraguay
Violence in Brazil
12 Years of GM soya in Argentina - disaster for people and environment

GM wheat
Learn more about GM wheat
Marketing systems for GM wheat
GM Wheat submission - food health
Report - Farmers lose with GM wheat
What our marketers say
Canadian Wheat Board position
GM Wheat impossible to segregate

Honey issues
Apiarist briefing
The impact of GM contamination
SA Apiarists briefing
Map SA & Vic
Honey tests reveal GM contamination

How trustworthy is decision-making?
Vested interests revealed
Why trust the regulatory process?
Sue Meek profile
Federal government pro-GM
Scientists influenced
Liability, GCA and legal action
Research manipulated
OGTR does not assess economics, segregation, chemical resistance, food testing etc.
Three faces of science fraud
Misleading GM language

Insurance
Insurance Council submission
Insurance avoid GM risk

International Protocols
World Trade Organisation
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Free Trade Agreement
Farmers right to replant seeds
International agreements
GM labelling
WTO ruling does not prevent countries from restricting or banning GMOs
Biotechnology Policy Documents of FAO Members

Legal Issues
Law
Copy of Technology User Agreement
2003 Monsanto contract
GM Patents
Monsanto shoot themselves in the foot (cartoon)
Will law protect us from contamination?
Summary of Supreme Court hearing of Percy Schmeiser
NSW Minister guarantees farmers are protected
AFFA-liability issues
US farmers sued
US farmers warned of GM liability issues
GM Crops and farmers Liability
Why is the non-GM grower liable for contamination?
Innocent farmer sued
Federal judge's opinion shows understanding of patented gene spread
Liability for non-GM farmers
More on liability:
Liability and GM crops
Farmers prepare for legal fight over GM
Legal letter from non-GM to GM
Liability issues - Duncan Currie

Legislation & Regulation
Trials vs Commercial Release
Bayer Cropscience Invigor Canola approved by OGTR
States impose moratoriums in role to protect economics
OGTR role
Gene Technology Act
GM canola trial locations
Victorian Moratorium
Australian GM status by States
Federal candidate views
OGTR unapproved GM canola trials
Gene Technology Act Critique
South Australian Act
WA proudly GM-free
*State moratoria legislation*
Gene Tech Act reviews denies compensation
National Biotechnology Strategy
Chronology of genetic engineering regulation in Australia: 1953–2008

Links
Genome Scrambling Links
Links
Top 10 books on GM
Religious links

Network action
Invigor canola submission OGTR
GM Zone proposal submissions
GTGC submission summary
NCF Newsletters
NCF Media releases
GTGC full submission
Roundup Ready Submission OGTR
Network tours
pro-GM lobbyists attack NCF
Pro-GM tantrums
Advertisement
Victorian farmer survey
NCF banner & flyer
Field day survey
Community monitoring of GM Crop Trials
Letters to farmers

Gene Tech Act Review Pt1
Gene Tech Act Reveiw Pt 2
Gene Tech Act Review Pt3
Bayer Protest
Bayers Response to NCF
NCF submission released

Organics
Canadian organic standard
American organic standards

Trials
Victorian maps
Victorian sites - photos
SA trial photos
Trials summary
Topas 19/2 contamination
South Australia 2006 GM Trials

Gene Technology Grains Committee (GTGC)

11 June 2009
Dupont alleges anti-competitive conduct by Monsanto

24 February 2009
Non-GM Farmers to pay for unwanted GM contamination

02 February 2009
Made by Monsanto

01 February 2009
Top 10 Seed and Pesticide companies

29 January 2009
Agronomics and Economics of GM Canola

29 January 2009
Non-GM biotech is the future

26 January 2009
12 Yrs of GM soya in Argentina - disaster for people and environment

19 January 2009
Non-GM seed preferred by farmers but difficult to obtain

16 January 2009
GM Canola a flop

14 January 2009
India: Doctors and Scientists call for GM ban

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