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    GM Foods in Hong Kong

    India to Require Mandatory Labeling of GM Foods

    http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=17941

    Why Hong Kong is lacking behind to Mainland China and India ?


    Continuing Controversy in India over Mass Death of Sheep from Eating GE Cotton
    http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_646.cfm

    Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines
    http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_637.cfm

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    BT cotton feeding Monsanto greed: NGOs

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    Genetically Modified Cotton Seed Controversy Increases in India

    HYDERABAD, INDIA, June 8, 2006:
    The controversy over the use of a genetically modified seed called BT cotton has escalated. Agriculture ministers from seven states that grow cotton met in Hyderabad to discuss the use of the seed. Andhra Pradesh has been negotiating with Monsanto, the company importing the seed into India, to reduce the price of the Bt cotton seed. The article explains, "On a petition filed by state government, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTPC) had held that the seed companies, particularly Monsanto Mahyco Biotec Ltd, have been adopting restrictive trade practices in the country and imposing unreasonable royalty of US$20 per 450 gram of Bt cotton seed. The Monsanto's BT cotton seeds were being sold for a very high price of $36 per 450 grams. But the MRTP's ruling brought down it to about $17. "

    Two organizations called the AP Coalition in Defence of Diversity (APCDD) and South Against Genetic Engineering (SAGE) want the seed banned from Indian agriculture altogether. They contend that it is not only the price of the seed that is the problem. PV Satheesh, the convenor of the two organizations, explains, "At least a thousand farmers, if not more, have committed suicide after growing BT cotton in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra as well as in Karnataka. Quoting independent scientific research, there has been no reduction in the use of pesticides and pests were developing resistance in the country forcing farmers to use more toxic sprays, and there has been no increase in the yield by the BT seeds."

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    Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease


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    You would think people would realize how evil Monsanto is after all this time. These are the same guys who invented saccharin, which has now been found to be carcinogenic.

    They're also responsible in part for the creation of nuclear weapons, and they invented Agent Orange, the defoliant that was used in Vietnam to destroy large areas of land.

    Monsanto also produced copious quantities of DDT in the past. When the public began realizing how dangerous it was, they decided it was time to delve into genetic research. The wikipedia article for Monsanto says they often come up in discussions of 'corporate terrorism.'


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    HK is too busy in defending itself against the "fake" food products, made from synthetic chemicals or industrial grade ingredients, from being smuggled in from China. As long as the foods are "genuine" ones, whether it's genetically modified or not is probably not an issue of top enough priority for the HK govt.

    HK is not behind China in regulating GMO foods - actually the majority of GMO foods in HK are probably from China. China is one of the countries most active in experimenting with GMO products. The unauthorized GMO rice of China was found in the rice of Europe recently.
    (full articel at url: http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...c=66&type=qcna)


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    The World According to Monsanto

    - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. - 109 min - Mar 28, 2008

    [ame=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-842180934463681887]The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see.[/ame]


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    The World According to Monsanto

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    New Monsanto movie | Greenpeace International

    Voice out for Mandatory labelling on GE food
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    Voice out for Mandatory labelling on GE food | Greenpeace China


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    Label all GM Foods GMO Mandatory Labeling
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    Vrindavan,

    I do feel uncomfortable about "laboratory" produced foods, but there's one thing that I can't get clear in my mind in this "Genetic Engineering" debate, and that is how you would define "genetic engineering" in a legally sustainable way.

    In the broadest sense, genetic engineering has been going on for millennia: it isn't something new. Farmers have always taken the strongest / meatiest / <whatever desirable property> animals and used them to breed for the next generation, thereby, they hope, meaning that the next generation has more of the desirable property. They have also used cross-breeding - mules are the best pack animals and they are "mutants" (cross-breeds created by getting two different animals to mate, thereby injecting the genes of a donkey into the genes of a horse).

    Similarly with plants, people created bigger, redder tomatoes by grafting plants together in the greenhouse long before people got upset about it.

    Almost all of the meat and most of the vegetables we eat today have been subject to this type of genetic engineering.

    So where do you draw the line? That is my question.

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    PDLM

    the things you mentioned are entirely different from GM

    Thirteen myths of genetic engineering
    Thirteen myths about genetic engineering

    Human's Playground: Genetic Engineering : Myth and Fact
    Human's Playground: Genetic Engineering - Myth and Fact

    "Biotechnology Will Feed the World" and Other Myths
    VegSource Article

    14 Myths about Genetic Engineering
    14 Myths about Genetic Engineering :: Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering :: Resistance is fertile!

    Dispelling Common Myths About Genetically Engineered Seeds
    Dispelling Common Myths About Genetically Engineered Seeds

    Myths and Realities of Genetically Engineered foods
    True Food Now!

    UK Organic Group Exposes Myth that Genetically Engineered Crops Have Higher Yields
    UK Organic Group Exposes Myth that Genetically Engineered Crops Have Higher Yields


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