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Wednesday, 22 March, 2006. Terminator is the name of a plant technology that renders sterile seeds. If released, it will mean farmers can’t save harvested seed from their crops and replant them. This genetically engineered technology will cost farmers a fortune and threaten ecological systems. more>>HELP: Stop the Terminator
Ministers bail out biotech bandits, Victorian farmer, Geoffrey Carracher, had no government support for testing his crop, which is now contaminated.
03 November 2005, When the decision came, it was devastating. Australia’s primary industries ministers have decided to allow genetic contamination of our canola harvest. more>>
ATTEND: a public meeting on the Gene Technology Act review.
– 14 October 2005: GE food found in supermarkets: Greenpeace Trolley Watch volunteers have checked whether there is labelling on products containing genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. Their findings are disturbing.
– 07 October 2005: Bayer contaminates Victorian canola field: A Victorian farmer is the first confirmed case in Australia of in-field contamination with Bayer’s genetically engineered (GE) canola.
– 11 August 2005: Bayer’s GE crop contamination is real: Canola crops in WA are contaminated by Bayer’s genetically engineered canola.
– 23 May 2005: GE canola breaks loose in Japan:
– GE canola has been discovered growing by the roadside in Japan.
– 25 May, 2005, Is your breakfast cereal illegal?: The scandal over unauthorised genetically engineered corn in our food is escalating.
– 15 April 2005: GE out of control: The biotech industry is unable to, and uninterested in preventing genetic contamination.
– 30 March 2005: Australian wildlife harmed like British birds: Why does the Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator dismiss the largest study ever done on the environmental impacts of genetically modified crops as “irrelevant”?
– 23 March 2005, Green eggs and chooks: Just in time for Easter, Darrell Lea Chocolates has gone GE-free.
– 11 February 2005: Winged victory: Australia’s top three poultry companies have agreed to stop giving their birds genetically engineered (GE) feed.
– 27 January 2005: Study confirms monarch threatened by GE corn: The first long-term study into the impacts of genetically engineered (Bt) corn on monarch butterflies.
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