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Bayer CropScience contaminates our rice

Publication | October 8, 2007 at 0:00

The following is a summary of eventssurrounding one of the worst cases of geneticengineering contamination of food in historyand one of the most damaging events in thehistory of the US rice industry.The devastation has been caused by...

Outdoors 'Pharming' of Drugs risks Contamination

Press release | September 7, 2001 at 0:00

Whoops. Genetic Engineering leak continues to cost.

Blog entry by Glen Tyler | April 9, 2011 1 comment

Bayer, the company that wants the world to eat Genetically Engineered (GE) rice, recently had to fork over more money for contaminating the US rice supply with an experimental, unapproved rice variety in 2006. Recently, Riceland...

China hammers nails into the GE coffin – what country is next?

Blog entry by Caroline Jacobsson | February 27, 2012 2 comments

Recently China proposed to legislate against genetically engineered (GE) grains. This means that staple foods, such as rice cannot be researched, planted or sold on the Chinese market nor can it be exported. Greenpeace China has...

The Buzz about GE Rice in China.

Blog entry by arook | November 27, 2009 1 comment

Reports from the Reuters news agency that China, the world's largest producer and consumer of rice, has issued a biosafety certificate for a locally-developed strain of genetically-modified rice that would pave the for large-scale...

April 15: A nuclear mistake

Blog entry by Almudena | April 15, 2010

Nuclear Action in Sweden. Barrels marked with the nuclear waste symbol. Japanese electronic giant Toshiba is developing mini nuclear reactors which could be buried underground (with the idea of providing safer energy). The...

March 4: US will push for ban on overfished bluefin tuna

Blog entry by Teresa Belkow | March 4, 2010 1 comment

This is part of a trial series Greenpeace activists hold banners reading "Ban Bluefin Tuna Trade" during a protest to demand immediate action to protect the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna from commercial extinction. The...

Hands off our rice!

Image | April 1, 2009 at 16:03

Hands off our rice! Keeping rice GE-free is not just about consumer choice or the environment - it's a lot bigger than that. It's a matter of global food security, human rights and survival.

February 24: Members tell Facebook "say no to coal"; EU's GE cultivation decreased by...

Blog entry by mwilson | February 24, 2010

This is a trial series. Members tell Facebook to ditch coal power for clean renewable energy. © Greenpeace Facebook's decision to base its new data center in the Oregon town of Princeville - powered by coal from PacifiCorp,...

February 25: Unilever blacklists deforestation palm oil company, Indonesia; China...

Blog entry by mwilson | February 25, 2010 2 comments

This is a trial series. Decimated rainforests in Indonesia, being cleared for palm oil plantations. © Will Rose / Greenpeace Reuters reported that Unilever has told dealers not to source palm oil from the Indonesian...

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