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Artificial Organisms
Background Information

The Future of Farming (Greenpeace, April 2001) download the Pdf report

Centres of diversity
Genetic pollution
GE soya | GE maize | GE rapeseed | GE trees | GE fish
Antibiotic resistance
Non-target effects
Pesticides


Centres of Diversity

Centres of Diversity - global heritage of crop varieties threatened by genetic pollution
(Greenpeace International, September 1999) (Adobe Acrobat pdf format)

Summary: Genetically Engineered plants - A threat to Centres of Diversity

Résumé: Les plantes génétiquement modifiées - une menace pour les centres de diversité (Acrobat pdf) January 2000

Genetic Pollution

GM crops cause massive, unmanageable contamination, News advisory, 27 March 2002, (pdf)

Genetic pollution - multiplying nightmare, Greenpeace briefing, February 2002, (pdf)

Genetically engineered soya

Roundup Ready Soya (PDF file): Incomplete data, missing evaluation and insufficient controls - 15 August 2001.

Monsanto's risk evaluation (PDF file): would not necessarily have detected unexpected effects caused by the unidentified DNA.

Genetically engineered maize

Novartis Genetically Engineered Maize
A Major Threat to the Environment and Human and Animal health
(Greenpeace International, February 1998)


Genetically engineered oilseed rape

GE oilseed rape - Out of control in Canada?
Greenpeace International - April 2002

Environmental risks of genetically engineered oilseed rape
(Greenpeace International, March 2000)

Genetically Engineered Oil Seed Rape (AGREVO/PGS)
A Crictical Assessment and Background Information - Summary
(Susanne Fromwald and Sylvia Strauss on behalf of Greenpeace International, May 1998



Genetically engineered Trees

Pulp Fiction - Genetically engineered trees. Dr. Jan van Aken for Greenpeace International, November 2000


Genetically engineered fish

Genetically engineered fish - question and answers
(Greenpeace International, March 2002)

Genetically engineered fish - swimming against the tide of reason
(Greenpeace International, January 2000)

Poissons transgénique - A contre-courant de la raison
(Greenpeace International, January 2000)

 

Antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Transgenic Plants, in particular Ampicillin Resistance in Bt-Maize Executive summary
(Oekoinstitut Freiburg on behalf of Greenpeace Germany, March 1998)

Antibiotic Resistance in Genetically Modified Plants
(Greenpeace International, September 1998)

 

Non-target effects

Review on non-target organisms and Bt plants
Ecostrat, on behalf of Greenpeace International, April 2000)

Environmental risks of genetically engineered oilseed rape

(Greenpeace International, March 2000)

Non-target effects of Bt corn pollen on the Monarch butterfly (Lepidoptera: Danaidae)
(Hansen, L. C. & J. J. Obrycki. 1999. Poster presentation at the North Central Entomology Society of America Meeting , Des Moines, Iowa.)

Transgenic pollen harms monarch larvae
(Nature 399, 214 (1999) (c) Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 20 May 1999.)

Report on the potential for exposure of British Lepidoptera to toxic GM maize pollen
(D. J .Stradling Ph.D. FRES 6 TH June 1999)


Pesticides

Glufosinate and Genetic Engineering
Economic and Environmental Implications of Herbicide Resistance
(The Pesticides Trust on behalf of Greenpeace International, November 1996)

Glyphosate Fact Sheet
(Greenpeace International, November 1996)