Multinational Monitor

JAN/FEB 2000
VOL 21 No.
1

FEATURES:

Don’t Ask, Don’t Know: The Biotech Regulatory Vacuum
by Ben Lilliston

Down on the Farm: Farmers Get The Biotech Blues
by Michael Stumo

The View From Wall Street
by Charlie Cray

The International Food Fight: From Seattle to Montreal
by Kristin Dawkins

In The Pipeline: Genetically Modified Humans?
by Richard Hayes

INTERVIEWS:

Traitor and The New Life Science Industry
An Interview with Pat Mooney

Changing the Nature of Natures
An Interview with Martin Teitel

DEPARTMENTS:

Behind the Lines

Editorial
The Biotech Challenge

The Front
Monsanto Sued - Corporate Welfare Challenged

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Names In the News

Resources

Resources

Organizations Publications

Rural Advancement
Foundation International

110 Osborne St., Suite 202
Winnipeg MB R3L 1Y5
CANADA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.rafi.org

Consumers Choice Council
2000 P Street, NW, Suite 540
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.consumerscouncil.org

Council For Responsible Genetics
5 Upland Road., #3
Cambridge, MA 02140
E-mail:[email protected]
www.gene-watch.org

Institute for Agriculture
and Trade Policy

2105 First Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
E-mail: [email protected]
www.iatp.org

Organic Consumers Association BioDemocracy Campaign
6114 Highway 61
Little Marais, MN 55614
E-mail: [email protected]
www.purefood.org

Campaign to Label Genetically
Engineered Foods

P.O. Box 55699
Seattle, WA 98155
E-mail: [email protected]
www.thecampaign.org

Center for Ethics and Toxics
P.O. Box 673 —
39141 South Highway One
Gualala, CA 95445
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cetos.org

Center for Technology Assessment
Center for Food Safety
310 D. St., NE
Washington, DC 20002
E-mail: [email protected]
www.icta.org

Corporate Agribusiness
Research Project
(Agribusiness Examiner)
P.O. Box 2201
Everett, WA 98203-0201
www.ea1.com/CARP

Edmonds Institute
20319 92nd Avenue West
Edmonds, WA 98020,
E-mail: [email protected]
www.edmonds-institute.org

European NGO Network on Genetic Engineering
Reinhaeuser Landstr. 51 D
37083 Goettingen
GERMANY
E-mail: [email protected]
www.gene.ch

Foundation on Economic Trends
1660 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.biotechcentury.org

Friends of the Earth
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW,
3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: [email protected]
www.foe.org

Gene Watch UK
The Courtyard,
Whitecross Road,
Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire,
SK17 8NY
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.genewatch.org

Greenpeace
1436 U Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: greenpeaceusa.org
www.greenpeaceusa.org
www.greenpeace.org/~geneng/main.html

Indigenous Peoples Coalition Against Biopiracy
P.O. Box 72
Nixon, NV 89424
E-mail: [email protected]

Institute for Food and
Development Policy/ Food First!

398 60th Street
Oakland, CA 94618
E-mail: [email protected]
www.foodfirst.org

The Institute of Science in Society
www.i-sis.dircon.co.uk

National Family Farm Coalition
110 Maryland Avenue, NE,
Suite 307
Washington, DC 20002
E-mail: [email protected]

Techno-Eugenics E-mail List
E-mail: [email protected]

Monsanto
800 North Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63167
www.monsanto.com

Biotechnology Industry
Organization
1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
www.bio.org

Genetic Resources
Action International (GRAIN)
Girona 25, pral.
Barcelona E-08010
SPAIN
E-mail: [email protected]
www.grain.org

Korean Institute for Research of Rural Societies (KIRRS)
175-2 Pyunghwa Bld(2F), Gahoe-dong, Chongro-gu
Seoul, SOUTH KOREA 110-260
E-mail: [email protected]
www.agri-korea.or.k

The Research Foundation for
Science, Technology & Natural Resource Policy

A-60 Haus Khas
New Delhi 110016
INDIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.indiaserver.com/betas/vshiva

Third World Network
228 Macalister Road
Penang 10400
MALAYSIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.twnside.org.sg

Soil Association
Bristol House, 40-56 Victoria Street
Bristol BS1 6BY
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.soilassociation.org

Karnataka State Farmers Movement
2111, 7A Cross 3d Main
Vijayanagar 2d Stage
560040 Bangalore
INDIA
E-mail: swamy@[email protected]
Union of Concerned Scientists
2 Brattle Square
Cambridge, MA 02238
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ucsusa.org

Consumer’s Union
1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 310
Washington, DC 20009-1039
www.consumersunion.org

Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature
By Martin Teitel and Kimberly Wilson
Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1999

Genetically Engineered Foods:
A Consumer’s Self-Defense Guide

By Ben Lilliston and
Ronnie Cummins
Berkeley, California: Avalon, 2000

The Biotech Century
By Jeremy Rifkin
New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998

Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? The Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business
By Mae Wan Ho
Bath, UK: Gateway Books, 1998

Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food
By Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey
Monroe, ME, Common Courage, 1998

Owning the Future: Staking Claims on the Knowledge Frontier
By Seth Shulman
New York: Houton Mifflin, 1999

Farmageddon: Food and the Culture of Biotechnology
By Brewster Kneen
British Columbia, Canada:
New Society Publishers, 1999

Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology
By Kristin Dawkins
New York: Seven Stories, 1997

The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy
American Agriculture
By Paul Raeburn
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops
By Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon
Boston: MIT Press, 1996

The Human Body Shop: The Cloning, Engineering and Marketing of Life
By Andrew Kimbrell
Washington, D.C.: Recenery Publishing, Inc., 1997

Frankenstein’s Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture
By J. Turney
Suffolk, United Kingdom: St. Edmundsbury Press, 1998

World Hunger: Twelve Myths
By Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins and Peter Rossett
New York: Grove Press, 1998

Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth and Humans
By Dr. Michael W. Fox
New York: The Lyons Press, 1999

Remaking Eden; Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World
By Lee M. Silver
New York: Avon Books, 1997

Exploding the Gene Myth
By Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald
Boston: Beacon Press, 1993

Perils Amidst the Promise: Ecological Risks of Transgenic Crops in a Global Market
Washington, D.C.: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1993

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
by Vandana Shiva
Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000

 

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