The technical periodical Nature Biotechnology reported on cases, in which genetic engineering companies suppressed research results. Already in the summer insect researchers in the USA had weighted 2009 about the fact that the companies affect their work. That Monsanto& amp; CO even to more substantial methods to seize know, shows the case of an Argentine scientist. It had published critical results to the Monsanto herbicide RoundUp.
The science lady journalist Emily Waltz has secret in her article ! taken up to Nature Biotechnology already in the summer 2009 the censorship discussion begun and around some cases enriches. Anonymous a researcher of the lady journalist told that its university laboratory should examine 2001 on behalf of Pioneer side effects of a new gene corn sort on ladybirds. Nearly all beetles died, after they had received longer than eight days fodder with the corn Toxin. Pioneer forbade to the researchers with reference to the signed order to publish the results. Two years later the corn sort in the USA became certified. In the submitted documents to the US environmental protection authority EPA the attempts had been modified in such a way by Pioneer that the ladybirds remained alive. EPA to the earlier results, has one referred however preferred to act, does not write Waltz.
It describes also that it is possible with reference to the file inspection right scientists often only to see studies from procedures of admission. Also this entrance is reduced, since the companies would withdraw such studies as trade secrets to often define and thus from the insight. The insect researcher Bruce Tabashnik of the University OF Arizona told Waltz that he had arrived at documents, according to which Dow AgroSciences stopped the sale of a gene corn sort in Puerto Rico, after the goal parasit, which had developed Armybollworm, resistances. I encouraged a coworker of the enterprise, who mentioned data to publish and, which alternatively also I could quote the data. He said to me, should I these information quote, the enterprise me would sue. Such statements have already a deterring effect, quote Waltz the researcher.
Scientists, who announce publicly results, which could harm the genetic engineering companies, to substantial under pressure set, with character assassination campaigns or covered for processes. Examples of it are the experiences of Arpad Pusztai or Ignacio Chapela. Also Argentine professor Andres Carrasco made similar experiences. It had reported in the press of the negative effect of RoundUp on embryos of frogs. It held the opinion that appropriate effects were possible on humans also. Thereupon it received threat calls and intimidating visits from lawyers in its laboratory. The agrarian lobby began with a character assassination campaign. Also from national side and of colleague for the agrarian companies the vigorous, he got, reported pressure the professor in a detailed interview, working for the Ministry of Defense. But do not let yourself so easy a dreißigjährige academic career destroy. Those are all Heuchler, these troops of the companies. But they have fear. They know that they cannot darken the sun with their hands. There are scientific proofs and, beyond that, hundreds of humans, those the living proof is for the health dangers, which are connected with Glyphosat.

THEKEY.TO – the international fair for green fashion, lasting lifestyle and culture – for the first time successfully one launched in July 2009. Now it unfolds for the second time as: THEKEY.T (W) O. innovativsten fire of the international green fashion and Design scene, which act directly at the pulse of the time, 20 presents themselves. until 23 January 2010 in Berlin of.
An emphasis of this edition lies in the larger selection of High Fashion of fire. Fray to Prins, initiator of THEKEY.T (W) O, determines: The Green mode is sends and fastidiously. For this reason we bring a exquisite selection together of modern and announced labels with Casual and Streetwear fire. The new location corresponds to this fusion. reports Gereon mushroom van the Grinten, initiator of THEKEY.T (W) O. the army baker’s shop in the Köpenickerstr. 16/17 are direct an impressive building at the Spreeufer in the szenigen Berlin Kreuzberg. Gereon, permit thus here to accept us two different resounding up to 100 of fire. The lower floor, the magazine, is thus ideal a hall generously put on with high covers and elegant windows and for a selection of quietful and first-class green mode fire. The Bakery in the first stick sprays however a cooler, industrially coined/shaped charm, which is suitable for urban designers up-to-date perfectly.
The slogan and leitmotiv of our second expenditure read THEKEY.T (W) O SHIFT. described fray. With our Event we want to show that the change is possible to a more responsible production and a lasting conscious consumption. The only way is UP! It adds: We want to send and quite also with the conception of a future provoke a positive impulse, in which Coolness go `together with responsibility and quality hand in hand. That is a our goal and we is in the Veränderung.THEKEY.T (W) O is a forum for lastingness already in the middle, information and interdisciplinary networking offers. Rounds of talks with international guests and Workshops with experts are part of the comprehensive meeting program.
The concept of the lastingness reflects itself constantly: both in the selection the fire, and in the entire fair Interieur up to the fresh bio Catering. For the first expenditure we arranged the complete exhibitor conditions and the furniture. It consists of 100% recyceltem Cardboard, is gradlinig and functional. In the sense of our meeting we will again use it for the coming expenditure. Additionally we compiled a completely new lasting Design concept. It is elegant and easy and is to show our transformation to a portfolio with a larger number of elevated fire. explains Gereon mushroom van the Grinten.
Of 20. until 22 January opens the gates only for specialized public, on 23 January is also the public welcome.

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The new black-yellow Federal Government will drive a genetic engineering-friendlier course than their predecessor. The agreements specified in the coalition contract show this. The federation for ecological food economy called the statements extremely precariously. But as badly as feared, it did not come.
To a substantial decision of the old large coalition the new government holds for the time being. With the issued cultivation prohibition for the genetically changed corn sort MON 810 the exit of the legal proceedings is waited for, is located in the coalition contract. To expect it is however that the government would accept a decision in first instance, positive for Monsanto. Is interesting, which is not mentioned. Because those are the points, at which no agreement was obtained. Thus for example sharpening of the genetic engineering right demanded by the Gentech lobbyists is missing completely.
Spacer rules are to meet in the future the Federal states. That would make the CSU in Bavaria a genetic engineering-free single-handed attempt possible. However the clearance is very closely defined, because it concerns not Koexistenzregeln altogether, but only around the legal Vorraussetzungen, so that the Federal states can specify distances within a federally uniform framework from criteria flexibly independently. The BÖLW commentated this compromise critically: With all sympathy for the freedom of choice of regions: Brandenburgian corn polling flies just as far as more Bavarian.
With the zero-tolerance opposite the government one wants to reach not certified GVO practicable application. Happening is this by changes of the official sampling and checking methods. Such a procedure announced but because of the resistance against such slights-of-hand so far did not convert the European Commission on European level already.
We it enters the formulation meant for a stronger science orientation and efficient procedures of admission of genetically changed organisms (GVO) on European Union level, that in the future above all the genetic engineering-friendly food authority EFSA is to decide and not itself the mutually blocking politicians of the member states.
The coalition wants to support the cultivation of the gene tuber Amflora. Since the decision falls on European Union level, this means only that Germany cannot contain no more of the voice there, but to agree would have. That a concrete product of a concrete company – which genetic engineering potato Amflora – it into the coalition contract created, is an unbelievable procedure and shows, as successfully the biotechnology industry with it was, the contract authors the feather/spring to lead, commentated the BÖLW chairman Felix prince to lion stone this passage.
The text on the pages 124 and 125 in the draft of the coalition contract
Becomes green genetic engineering
The biotechnology represents an important future industry for research, economics and agriculture, which are established already world-wide. Therefore we want to use the answerable potentials of the green genetic engineering. The protection of humans and environment remains a highest goal of the German genetic engineering right.
We enter for a stronger science orientation and efficient procedures of admission of genetically changed organisms (GVO) on European Union level. We create the legal Vorraussetzungen, so that the Federal states can specify distances, which are to be kept between fields with genetically changed plants and such with conventional or ecological cultivation within a federally uniform framework from criteria flexibly independently.
With the issued cultivation prohibition for the genetically changed corn sort MON810 the exit of the legal proceedings is waited for. The cultivation of the genetically changed Stärkekartoffel Amflora for a commercial, industrial utilization is supported.
In order to make an application possible of the zero-tolerance for GVO, not practicable for economics and monitoring, specified in the Community law of the European Union, certified in the European Union, we will amend the genetic engineering law and the harrow/selvedge technique execution law. There we will create an authorization, in order to specify official sampling and checking methods. For the creation of a comprehensive consumer transparency we aim at a positive marking (process marking) on European level.

The coalition no patents on seeds started a world-wide appeal against increasing monopolizing of seeds and agricultural economically useful animals by patents. The patents threaten in their opinion the world-wide food supply and the regional self-determination with the food production. The appeal is to be handed over on 26 March 2010 at governments and patent offices into Africa, north and South America, Australia and Europe.
The grasp of the companies after the food supply of the world led in the meantime to a firm term: Monsantisierung. Because the US group Monsanto operates this tactics at the aggressivsten. It holds already over 1.000 patents lives, in particular seeds. Farmers advisablely in dependence, may not pull their own seeds to no more.
Also the United Nations warn of this danger. Olivier de Schutter, the UN-particular agent for the right to food presented this week in New York its report to the UN general assembly. Therein it determines: The oligopolies of some offerers can lead to the fact that the entrance to seeds, means of production vital for them is refused to poor farmers. And it can lead to the fact that the food prices rise, whereby the food for the poorest ones becomes still less available. So hunger crises could be still strengthened
Even Deutsche Bank writes in a study for world nutrition over patents in the agriculture: It is important that the farmers can keep and again use seeds, since poor farmers do not buy for each sowing new seeds to können.9 this range are so importantly that it not exclusively to the private sector will leave can, which has an interest to maximise the profit for the shareholders.
The international coalition no patents on seeds was created on 26 March 2007. It consists of farmers, development assistance and environment organizations. The call is supported against the Monsantisierung of farmer organizations from several countries.
Background info. about seeds and food
Dossier of patents in the agriculture

The Indian secretary of the environment Jairam Ramesh refused the genetically manipulated Auberginen of the Indian Monsanto folder Mahyco the commercial permission for the time being. Before the Indian permission commission GEAC (gene TIC engineering Approval Committee) had explained the gene Aubergine for safe and had recommended to release the cultivation. But three of the 20 GEAC scientists were correct against it and referred to on clear lack with the safety assessments, which Monsanto had submitted. The government wants to listen to now only once all involved ones, also the farmer’s associations and environment organizations, which fight for years against the permission.
India is the homeland of the Auberginen, which belong to Brinjal hot there and to the basic food. For years Mahyco Monsanto Biotech tries to receive for its Bt-Brinjal the permission. It would be the first genetically altered food, which was cultivated in India. So far there only Bt-cotton grows. According to largely the resistance against those is already 2004 requested permission. After the GEAC permitted 2006 cultivation attempts and 2007 a first positive evaluation delivered, a second examination in order was given. Their result led to the current majority resolution of the GEAC.
The critics of the Bt-Brinjal refer on feeding attempts with animals, which point to health risks. Besides they criticize that it does not give any marking obligation for Genfood in India, and also hardly possibilities of proving a genetic pollution. Thus the consumers could not decide during permission of the Gentech Aubergine any longer freely.
Mahyco argued that at least 25 studies would occupy the security of the Bt-Aubergine for humans and environment. Pushpa Bhargava, one of the three deviating GEAC members, held against the fact that the GEAC had not let these data supplied by Monsanto independent analyze. The independent study of the French scientist Gilles Eric Seralini had classified the Bt-Auberginen as possibly health-endangering.
The Indian journal in detail reported down ton Earth in the spring 2009 over the gene Aubergine

The negotiations of the future government coalition to becoming green the genetic engineering do not advance. While CDU and FDP want to promote the Green genetic engineering, the CSU continues to reject the cultivation of Gentech plants. It wants to let each Federal state decide at least. Environmental and bio federations do not only interfere with explanations intensively into the discussion.
Hardly a considerable environmental or bio federation remained quiet in the last days. In numerous explanations the organizations requested the black-yellow coalition to protect and to the cultivation prohibition for gene corn MON 810 record the genetic engineering-free production. A selection:
Bio country: Hands away of the genetic engineering law
Nature country: Freedom of election of the consumers endangers
AoeL: Ask no role backwards!
AbL: Right of way for the genetic engineering-free agriculture!
Greenpeace: Cultivation prohibition for gene plants is not negotiatable
FEDERATION: Abolition of the zero-tolerance is the end of the genetic engineering freedom
NABU: No free trip light for genetic engineering
But also the opposite side did not remain dormant. In a common statement the German academy of the natural scientists Leopoldina, and the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Sciences expressed themselves the German academy of the technique sciences to sharpen the genetic engineering law. They did not demand the omission of the adhesion regulation, concealing the locations, smaller safety margins, shorter periods for registration and a charter for the Auskreuzung certified genetic engineering Konstrukte from experiments on neighbour fields. Also the German industrial combination biotechnology (DIB) demanded a rapid change in politics in Berlin and Brussels with the green genetic engineering to introduce. Meanwhile the German farmer’s association and the animal feed industry for it make themselves strongly, genetically polluted animal feed imported goods in the country to leave.

The regional court pouring condemned two Feldbefreier to many-month detentions, because they had destroyed an experimental field of the University of pouring with gene barley before three years. That country widely well-known genetic engineering critics Jörg Bergstedt received six month to detention without probation. His fellow combatant Patrick Neuhaus was condemned to four months detention on probation and 120 hours of non-profit work. Both announced to go into revision.
The accused had appointed itself before court on a justifying state of emergency after paragraph 34 of the penal code. Permits the resistance, if life and limb the author are endangered. Bergstedt argued that a danger for the life was given, if humans, because organisms are patented, had verhungern. An evidentially increased pesticide employment with the cultivation of genetically changed cultures endangers besides the health of many humans. During the field freeing act it according to him around the mildeste effective means against these dangers.
The dangers of the genetic engineering are not to be wiped away, granted judge Johannes Nink. The uncontrollableness of transgener plants is a fact. For the accused do not be applicable the justifying state of emergency, because the uncontrolled Auskreuzung of the genetic engineering is not to be prevented also with a field freeing. Crucially for the higher measure of punishment against Jörg Bergstedt. however its motive situation is in the special one. The 45-jährige is a political conviction author, who rejects any rule and which a goal pursues of presenting itself as professional revolutionaries quotes the Giessener general one the judge.
Judgement brings professor on the Birke
Sigmar Groeneveld, emeritierter professor for ecological agriculture, mounted a Birke from protest before the law courts. From ten meters height it addressed a speech to judges, policemen and genetic engineering opponents and accused to the court cowardice: It missed a large chance. Only around midnight it climbed again down there.
In an interview with the newspaper new Germany demanded Bergstedt, the resistance against the genetic engineering had to be shifted more offensively and to the fields and laboratory locations. Thumbs press, in the bio shop buy and green do not select against the genetic engineering ever helped – now is it more clearly ever.

Process report of the project workshop Saaßen
Report on Indymedia
Report of the Gießener newspaper

The gene tuber Amflora of BASF got competition. The Ems country group and the plant breeder euro-planned bred a potato, which contains like Amflora only the strength sort Amylopektin without genetic engineering. The first harvest is now processed.
The Ems country group is world-wide prominent of Germany largest potato strength producer and according to own data in the production of strength refinement products, potato protein, flakes and granulates. One of the prominent enterprises is euro-planned in the potato breeding and in the research and development of new potato sorts specialized. The product range covers more than 80 certified potato sorts. In bio circles the company made itself unpopular, when it wanted to take the old potato sort Linda of the market and prevent an offspring.
In co-operation with the Ems countries group euro-planned now the gene tuber Amflora shifted a heavy impact. Of both enterprises the developed genetic engineering-free Stärkekartoffel – like Amflora – excluding very viscous, stable Amylopektin and in the food, textile, paper, the industry of building materials as well as adhesive contain are used. The German potato strength manufacturers had already signaled years ago that they do not want to use Amflora. They were afraid for the call of their products, since they manufacture also potato strength for the foodstuffs sector.
Amflora contains an antibiotic resistance as marker gene. Due to doubts against this resistance it is not yet certified for the commercial cultivation. By generous permission for a wide cultivation of attempt the Federal Government helped the BASF tuber in the last two years over the rounds. Presumably in vain, which in view of a ready for the market alternative hardly a strength manufacturer will set more on Amflora.

In Argentina, the fifth-largest honey producer of the world, last year 30 per cent of the bee colonies were received. Lucas Martinez, the chairman of the Argentine beekeeper federation, makes responsible for it also the cultivation of Gensoja.
The large problem with us is the solid cultivation of Gensoja. The beekeepers displace ever more, particularly from the Pampa, where they worked so far. In the regions, where in former times on a large scale honey was produced, is now everywhere Soja Monokultur. All flowers and plants, which are important for bees, disappear. Our bees find too little food, said to Martinez on that 41. World congress of the beekeepers, the Apimondia 2009, in the French Montpellier. The herbicide Roundup rich in the ground on and continues to itself provide for meager surfaces, if the leached out fields became to leave already again. Within four years the Argentine honey export halved itself. Martinez appealed to the European beekeeper colleagues to use itself against the employment of gene soy as animal feeds in the European Union.
As one of the most important causes of the world-wide bee dying the French bio physicist designated Marc Bonmatin pesticides neurotoxic of national Forschungsinstitut CNRS on the Apimondis. To these nerve-poisonous active substances belongs also Clothianidin, which killed last year 12,000 bee colonies in South Germany. The French beekeeper federation as a supervisor of the Apimondia appealed to the responsible persons politicians world-wide to take all bee-poisonous pesticides immediately from the market to. Also it bräuchte stricter and more comprehensive investigations of the poisons, which (like Bt) are produced by genetically changed plants.