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• Richard Sithole
  ...a group of GM farmers all the way from South Africa to the UK to speak at a private meeting of The Commonwealth Business Council, before heading on to ...e Commonwealth Business Council meeting for using these farmers as part of a deliberate attempt to distort public debate on GM crops.
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• Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
  ...ia, his promotion of GM crops is inevitably projected as an ushering in of a second Green Revolution. Indeed, that was the title of [http://www.ficci.co Although regarded as a GM proponent, Swaminathan does not present as a pugnacious propagandist for the technology like [[Norman Borlaug]], that ot
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• Lobbying of the Nuclear Industry Association in the mid-noughties
  ...ief Executive of the NIA, put forward the case for nuclear power to retain a role in UK energy supply, warning of the perils of increased reliance on ga ...nuclear industry; however, they are not insurmountable as long as there is a focused programme to change the current government policy." <ref>[http://ww
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• International Security Council, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
  ...in U.S. agency of the Moon system in the field of terrorism propaganda. In a brochure issued by ISC in October 1987, ISC head Joseph Churba acknowledges ...logist for Israeli policy; Peters is the author of 'From Time Immemorial', a volume published in 1984 to demonstrate that Palestinian Arabs were intrude
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• The Barrow Cadbury Trust
  *Its Director, [[Sukhvinder Stubbs]], is a Trustee of [[Demos]] and a member of the [[Better Regulation Task Force]] quango. She stepped down fr ...he voluntary and community sector to deliver public services. She is also a member of the [[Spoliation Advisory Panel]]. Barrow Cadbury also sponsor [
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• Bayer: Products and Projects
  ...he skin of that sausage you have just eaten…all have in common? There is a good chance that some if not all of these products are at least partially m ...de Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day vitamins and Baby-Bio. The following section is a division by division overview of Bayer's products.
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• Brad Mitchell
  ...k in the US, he worked on projects in India, Nepal and El Salvador. He has a particular interest in the relationship between agriculture and nutrition.< As of March 28 2009 Mitchell had posted three articles on Op-Ed News, a forum that usually carries much critical comment about Monsanto. All three
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• David Veness
  ...name="whoswho">‘VENESS, Sir David (Christopher)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007.</ref> ...gation Officer leading the inquiry into the disappearance of Martin Allen, a 15 year boy who vanished at King's Cross station in November 1979 and has n
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• Rowett Research Institute
  The Institute created [[Rowett Research Services Limited]], a private company that is, in its own words "the knowledge transfer arm of th ...industries. Formed initially in 2000 as [[Nutrition Enhancement Limited]], a joint venture between [[Angle Technologies plc]] and Rowett, the company to
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• Unilever: Corporate Crimes
  ...s as possible to the market without asking itself the question ‘is there a real need for the products we produce?’ ...is a big change they will spend the money on food products. Unilever is in a unique position to exploit this. They have expanded market share in the Sou
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• ScottishPower
  ...the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well. Scottish Power has a number of divisions and subsidiaries:
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• European Commission CONECCS Database
  ...organisations organised at European level. The directory is established on a voluntary basis and it is intended only for information. ===A===
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• Dupont: Corporate crimes
  DuPont's website paints a picture of a generous company striving for social and environmental justice. To quote th However, critics of the company see them in a somewhat different light:
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• Dupont: Influence
  [[DuPont]] is part of a powerful industry lobby that has stubbornly delayed or obstructed progressi The company has been named among a number of companies attempting to weaken US laws designed to hold polluters
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• Dupont
  ...''' (DuPont) is a global science and technology company. It is involved in a range of different industry areas, including high-performance materials, sy ...nd largest chemical manufacturer in the US and is also the world's largest seed company. {{ref|3}}
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• Dupont: Who, where, how much?
  A list of the company’s major plants and the main products produced there c DuPont is a publicly owned company.
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• Pfizer: Corporate Crimes
  A new report (released on 10 July 2001) by the consumer health organization F .... The executive with the highest amount of unexercised stock options was C.A. Heimbold, Jr., Bristol-Myers Squibb's Chairman and CEO, who held $227.9 mi
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• Advanta
  ...es. In the EU they have been involved in a major scandal when conventional seed stock they had supplied was found to have substantial levels of GM contamin ...ing - molecular markers; genetic modification; Seed technology/processing; seed production; marketing and sales.
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• Advanta: Products/Projects
  ...ybrid crop lines developed through conventional plant breeding techniques. A list of their UK GM crop trials appears below. Outside of the EU Advanta su ...p field trials in the UK: nine under the name Sharpes International Seeds (a wholly owed subsidiary of Advanta BV) and one as Advanta Seeds UK Ltd.
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• Syngenta
  ...argest owner of plant biotechnology patents {{ref|2}}and the third largest seed supplier.{{ref|3}} Syngenta has more than 20,000 employees in 20 countries ...ming honeybees. With the UK government's [[BBSRC]], Syngenta is co-funding a GBP 1million project in the UK to research the decline of the bees. But the
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• Advanta: Influence / Lobbying
  ...gdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association (UKASTA) and British Sugar Beet Seed Producers Association (BSBSPA). As mentioned above Advanta have hosted Farm ...ny deliberate releases of GM crops in the UK. Advanta have hosted National Seed Listing Trials for GM crops at their Boothby Graffoe test station [39].
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• Advanta: Corporate Crimes
  ...eets with figures. And the company does not reveal any specific data about seed sales. (At time of writing, the Advanta website has been under construction ...p' resistant crop was blown onto conventional oilseed rape being grown for seed.
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• Monsanto: Products and Projects
  ...M crops in the world. RoundUp Ready crops include maize, soya, canola (oil seed rape), cotton and sugar beet. Pipeline RoundUp Ready food crops include ric ...o’s Calgene subsidiary. Another Monsanto subsidiary DeKalb have marketed a Phosphinothricin (glufosinate ammonium) herbicide tolerant maize.
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• Monsanto: Who, Where, How Much?
  Monsanto are 85% owned by [[Pharmacia]] (a merger between [[Pharmacia/Upjohn]] and [[[Monsanto]]). In the UK Monsanto Hendrik A. Verfaillie (55)
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• Monsanto: Links, contacts & resources
  The Genetic Engineering Network is a network of people opposed to the imposition of GM technology. GEN includes A resource for campaigning and taking non-violent direct action against GMOs
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• Syngenta: Products and Projects
  ...lex®, Fusilade®, Gramoxone®(paraquat), Reglone®, Topik®, Touchdown® (a glyphosate based product licensed for use on RoundUp Ready crops in the US) 4. Seed treatments (UK products are marked with *)
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• Syngenta: Who, Where, How Much?
  ...Previous appointments include Head of Novartis' Agribusiness division and a member of the Novartis executive committee; Deputy Executive Head [[Novarti ...ted]] (ICRT), member of the board of trustees of the British Red Cross and a member of the board of governors of [[Ashridge Management College]].
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• Syngenta: Corporate Crimes
  ...self may become a problem weed, either by spreading from the field or when seed shed at harvest emerges in the following crop (so-called ‘volunteer’ we * The increased use of the specific herbicide a crop is made tolerant to, will encourage the emergence of resistant weeds t
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• Countryside Alliance
  ...bour government.<ref>The contents of this page were originally drawn from a report by Corporate Watch and Red Star Research. Credit material as follow ...enerally, and it has been able to capitalise on this to gain support among a much wider audience than just hunting enthusiasts. Repeatedly, strategies t
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• National Farmers' Union: Why the poor eyesight?
  ...communities, and are incompatible with the NFU's presentation of itself as a body that can speak impartially about GM technology. ...any farmers to contract growers depedent on a single corporation for their seed, chemical inputs, processing and selling.
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• National Farmers' Union: Examples of recent NFU Policies
  In March 2003, NFU Council members voted three to one in the favour of a motion that British farmers should be allowed to grow GM crops commercially ...hael Paske claims that the Council vote does not mean that the NFU now has a policy of supporting GM crops. The NFU will also hold regional meetings in
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• New Labour: Donors
  ...onors have received peerages, knighthoods or Task Force jobs, establishing a set of unelected bosses and millionaires in the heart of the Labour Governm ...ntracts and Enron, the failed energy multinational which is the subject of a huge financial scandal. Lobbying companies with clients that include Rupert
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• Scotts
  ...nds in every major category in virtually all of the countries where it has a significant presence.[1] ...9% of the market for growing media/plant food, 43% of the market for grass seed and 41% of the market for controls (i.e. herbicides and pesticides). In add
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• Foundation for the Future (democracy promotion)
  ...as actually doing there. On the foundations website there is no mention of a current office and no phone number. ...dentical to the address of the [[Eurasia Foundation]]. That foundation has a project manager with the name Neil Stormer. Its phone number is (202) 234-7
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• Scotts: Who, Where, How Much?
  Scotts is a publicly traded company. The company's operations are divided into four bus A list of some of the company's UK facilities can be found on the Peat Alert
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• 10 Reasons Why We Don’t Need GM Foods
  ...n being promoted as the way to feed the world. But this is little short of a confidence trick. Far from needing more GM foods, there are urgent reasons ...while profiting enormously from the resulting food crisis and using it as a PR opportunity to promote GM foods!
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• Genetically Modified (GM) Foods - Renewed Threat to Europe
  However, there is a huge loophole in the EU regulation. Milk, eggs, and meat from animals fed G Should consumers be worried? A growing body of evidence says that they should. Scientific studies have fou
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• Dow Chemical
  [[Dow Chemical]] is a US multinational chemical company that offers a broad range of products and services to customers in more than 175 countrie [[Compañía Mega, S.A.]]
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• Joachim Schiemann
  ...ated Plants], Key to Nature website, accessed 18 August 2009</ref> Through a re-structuring of German research institutes, the BBA became part of the [[ ...agencies and of biotech companies developed a questionnaire for farmers as a way of conducting post-market monitoring.<ref>[http://www.jki.bund.de/cln_0
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• National Strategy Information Center
  ...al Strategy Information Center''' is a US neoconservative think thank with a focus on intelligence-related issues. According to a profile the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC):
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• Pharmacia Corporation
  ...of restructuring the pharmaceutical industry by acquiring or merging with a number of companies in Sweden and abroad. Thus KabiVitrum, Leo, Ferrosan an ...eeteners and biogums businesses; divestiture of the [[Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company]]; sale of the alignates business: failed merger with [[Delta & Pin
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• Communication Group Scotland
  ...roup]] an English PR firm. It bought [[Forth Public Relations]] in 1995. A new firm [[3X1]] was created from within on 1 January 2001.<ref>PR Week May ...ny. McGarvey met Communications Group chairman [[Maureen Smith]] more than a year ago when both were working on [[United Distillers]] accounts.<ref>PR W
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• Ramin Ahmadi
  Dr [[Ramin Ahmadi]] is a director of the [[Iran Human Rights Documentation Center]]. ...s articles and short stories in Persian and English. He has also published a book on Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iran's longest-held prisoner of conscience.<ref
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• Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy
  ...bby group that was launched in July 2008 to promote crop-based biofuels as a replacement for fossil fuels. The group aims to counter criticisms that bio ...nd biofuel production are a major part of its agenda. This is supported by a Reuters report on the group’s launch, which notes, “The group believes
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• GMWatch: Portal
  ...base]]&mdash;providing [http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Category:GM an A-Z list] of articles on some of the key people and groups behind the push fo ...to know how the world works, this is the place to start. I cannot think of a more necessary set of facts than these. LobbyWatch permits us to peer into
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• Comment on SPICe briefing on GM crops
  ...rvice, December 2003</ref> But its briefing reads as if it were written by a GM industry lobbyist. It is not possible to check the credentials and affil Dr Sue Mayer, director of campaign group Genewatch and a member of the UK Government's Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Com
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• Comment by GM Freeze on Jimmy's Food Fight
  ...tic modification of Ugandan cooking bananas would prevent crop losses from a fungal disease are not correct, say GM Freeze, because Ugandan researchers ...fungus was not working in all plants and that the team would have to adopt a new approach:
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• Immoral Maize: Extract from Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat by Andrew Rowell
  ...to be a martyr by any means, but I cannot avoid now realising that this is a very, very well concerted and coordinated and paid for campaign to discredi ...e autumn of 2000 a graduate student from the University of California held a workshop for local peasant farmers in the beautiful mountainous region of S
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• Tom Vilsack
  This was a disappointment to more than 60,000 supporters of organic and sustainable fa ...lly engineered corn for pharmaceutical purposes in states such as Iowa is "a dangerous precedent."
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• Detlef Bartsch
  ...member of the GMO Panel of the [[European Food Safety Authority]] (EFSA), a position he has held since 2003.<ref>[http://www.gmo-safety.eu/en/news/694. ...esearch fellow Bartsch conducted field trials with GM sugar beets from the seed company [[KWS]].<ref>"[http://www.biosicherheit.de/pdf/proceedings99/15Bart
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