Fields of greed: "terminator technology" could make Monsanto rich ... and devastate the environment
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The world's biggest agro-chemical company Monsanto owns the US patent to a genetic engineering technology that renders the seeds of plants sterile. 'Terminator technology' will be an additional burden to farmers, who will be forced to buy new seeds every year. Moreover, the gene responsible for making the seeds sterile can escape to the environment and do irreparable damage to the ecosystem. Far from being the solution to the world's hunger problem, as Monsanto claims, the technology will further threaten the world's food security.
Publication Name: Greenpeace (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0899-0190
Year: 1999
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The X fields
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Greenpeace has focused on the threats posed by the first genetically mutated soybeans, Roundup Ready, developed by Monsanto. The genetic engineering of the bean has been done through genes from bacteria and virus. The soybeans do not show any improvement in nutritive value, taste, yield or cost. Monsanto developed the soybean for profit purposes. They can move into the vast environment and displace existing plants. Greenpeace activists have expressed concern and have held protests over the global use of these soybeans.
Publication Name: Greenpeace (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0899-0190
Year: 1996
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Strange new world
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Genetically modified crops pose a danger to the environment and humans by possibly contaminating the gene pool. Biological pollution, as it is called, can result in irreversible harmful changes to the environment. For example, genes from crops genetically engineered to resist herbicides can find their way to weeds, creating in the process 'superweeds.' The genetically modified crops themselves can be a threat to the environment when they spread too far and wide to destroy an ecology.
Publication Name: Greenpeace (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0899-0190
Year: 1999
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