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Sunday, November 02, 2008 |
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SPECIAL REPORT GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS |
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Now serving: Gene
foods on the table |
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You just don’t know it but you’re probably eating
genetically modified organisms in your favorite dishes |
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By Paul M. Icamina, Special
Reports Editor
KNOW before you swallow. This is
the advice of Sister Ma. Aida Velasquez, pointing out that many
Filipino foods contain gene-modified (GM) products.
These products range from infant
cereal to meat loaf, hotdog, corned beef, sausage, chicken nuggets,
liver spread, luncheon meat, soups and snacks, says Sister Aida,
coordinator of the environment advocacy group Lingkod Tao-Kalikasan.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Mega-biotech
activity in RP
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THE Philippines plants 300,000
hectares to Bt corn—and is ranked 10th among 13 so-called
“biotech mega-countries” growing 50,000 hectares or more of
biotech crops, in this case Bt corn.
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Gene crops farming
now a worldwide phenomenon
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GENE modification is the fastest
adopted crop technology in recent history.
In the first 12 years, the 690.9 million hectares planted to GM
crops in 2007 for the first time exceeded two-thirds of a billion
hectares equivalent...
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More GM food crops
headed for RP farms
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MORE gene modified foods will be
served on your dinner plates soon —from GM papaya to GM eggplants
and more. Pending confined trials at the Institute of Plant Breeding
(IPB), University of the Philippines-Los Baños,...
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GM is futile and
dangerous to humans
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NEW genetics research invalidates
the science underpinning the $73.5- billion global biotech industry
and confirms why genetic modification is futile and dangerous.
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GMO explained
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»What is a genetically
engineered organism (GMO)?
A GMO is a living cell or organism whose genetic material has been
altered or modified, making them capable of producing new substances
or perform new functions. A GMO is also referred to as transgenic.
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