Ag BioTech InfoNet - Covers all aspects of the application of biotechnology and genetic engineering in agricultural production and food processing and marketing.
Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC-UK) - Committed to "safe and responsible" introduction of biotechnology into the production of food. The companies involved here include: Bayer CropScience; BASF; Dow Agrosciences; Dupont; Monsanto; and Syngenta.
AquaBounty Technolgies - A biotechnology company focused on improving productivity in commercial aquaculture. Salmon is being developed by this Massachusetts company that contain an extra growth gene to make them grow twice as fast as conventional farm-raised salmon.
Biotechnology Risk Assessment Data: Facts and Conclusions - USDA propaganda site devoted to assuring you that GMOs used in foods are completely safe and to explaining the esoteric wonders behind a scientific technique known as "risk assessment."
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network - Collaborative campaigning at the local, regional, national and international levels opposing genetically modified food.
Center for Food Safety - Working to ensure the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered foods. CFS combines multiple tools and strategies in pursuing its goals, including litigation and legal petitions for rulemaking, legal support for various sustainable agriculture and food safety constituencies, as well as public education, grassroots organizing and media outreach
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility - A non-profit, educational group organized to provide independent analyses of the health effects and sources of ionizing radiation.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) - More than 300 CGIAR-developed varieties of wheat and rice, and more than 200 varieties of maize, are being grown by farmers in developing countries. CGIAR holds the world's largest collection of plant genetic resources (over 600,000 accessions of more than 3,000 crop, forage, and pasture species).
Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture - United Nations established this open forum allow a wide range of parties, including governmental and non-governmental organisations, policy makers and the general public, to discuss and exchange views and experiences about specific issues concerning biotechnology in food and agriculture for developing countries.
Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE): GMOs, Food and Farming Campaign - Actively promotes public understanding of the different applications and risks resulting from genetic engineering - especially in relation to agriculture and so-called novel foods - and thus to facilitate wider and more enlightened public participation in the development of the EU's biotechnology policy and legislation.
GE Food Alert Campaign Center - A coalition of seven organizations united in their commitment to testing and labeling genetically engineered food.
Genetically Engineered Food Alert - A coalition of organizations united in their commitment to testing and labeling genetically engineered food. Associated groups include:
GMWatch.org - Reporting on the growing concerns about genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, and about the rapid release of genetically modified (GM) foods and crops into the environment and into our food chain in the absence of either a social or scientific consensus on their safety.
GRAIN - An international non-governmental organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
Krafted: Genetically Krafted Foods - Kraft Foods is the largest food company in the country, and the second largest in the world. Kraft's products are found in 99% of U.S. households, and many of them, such as Taco Bell taco shells, Boca Burgers, Lunchables, Post cereals and Stovetop Stuffing have been found to contain untested and unlabeled genetically engineered ingredients that may put families and environment the at risk. Kraft refuses to label these inadequately tested foods, taking away our right to know what we are eating, despite the fact that between 85 and 95% of Americans want labeling. Activist resources and campaign calling on all food companies, particularly Kraft Foods, to stop using genetically engineered ingredients in all of its products unless adequate testing, labeling, and liability are established.
Monsanto vs Schmeiser - Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola. Monsanto's position is that it doesn't matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene and that he must pay their Technology Fee.
Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (NW Rage) - Working to stop the instrusion of genetic engineering into our lives, our food supply, our environment and our privacy. Promotes healthy alternatives to the use of genetic engineering: organically grown food, healthy diets, natural medicine, and a pollution-free environment.
Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page - Over 6800 articles on mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, BSE, CJD, CWD, TME, and TSE. A project of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation.
True Food Now Network - Where concerned citizens can voice their opinions about critical food safety issues, and advocate for a socially just, democratic, and sustainable food system.
U.S. Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website - Focuses on the agricultural products of modern biotechnology. At this time, the searchable database available on this site only covers genetically engineered crop plants intended for food or feed that have completed all recommended or required reviews for food, feed or planting use in the United States. The U.S. Government agencies responsible for oversight of the products of agricultural modern biotechnology are the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Union of Concerned Scientists: Food and Environment - Focuses on reducing unnecessary uses of antibiotics and strengthening civil society's control of biotechnology. UCS's antibiotic-resistance work aims at moving the Food and Drug Administration to curb the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture - especially those important for human medicine. In biotechnology, the UCS is seeking strong regulation of genetically engineered plants and animals.
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