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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

Industry avoids the truth about GM segregation

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

09 November 2009
Industry avoid the truth about GM segregation problems

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

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