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	GM Organisms: Instant Expert \| New Scientist
		GM tomatoes, as puree, first appeared on British supermarket shelves in 1996 (a different fresh GM tomato first appeared in the US in 1994), but the consumer furore that surrounded GM technology did not erupt until February 1999.
		GM crops are today very rare in Europe, strict labelling laws and regulations are in place for food (DNA bar codes), and public opinion towards the technology remains largely negative.
		GM produce has been taken up with far less fuss in the US (where it does not have to be labelled), India, China, Canada, Argentina, Australia and elsewhere.
	www.newscientist.com /popuparticle.ns?id=in35 (1055 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| GM crop technology on trial
		GM is a war launched by the big US corporations in their relentless pursuit of profit and growth.
		The public need to be helped to understand that GM as a technology (insertion of genes into a plant genome) is an advance on conventional plant crossing and breeding that has been done for decades to improve crop viability.
		GM technology has the potential to be of global benefit, if used responsibly - and if supported by the public.
	www.guardian.co.uk /gmdebate/Story/0,2763,1056624,00.html (859 words)

	GM Technology and Nutrition
		GM technology has the potential to make food in greater quantity and better quality available to populations that need it most.
		GM technology should be equally or more cost-effective, nutritionally effective, and sustainable than interventions such as fortification and supplementation programs already being used.
		The use of GM technology should be considered in the context of conventional breeding techniques since some traits can be introduced through the latter.
	www.monsanto.co.uk /news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=6758 (375 words)

	GM Technology Does Deliver - Monsanto.co.uk
		We have found that the most recent GM soybean varieties will actually yield up to three bushels (a bushel is 60 pounds) per acre more than the conventional varieties.
		By using GM technology, we have been able to cut our chemical costs by applying less chemicals, and we have witnessed less weeds in our fields which translates into higher yields and higher quality grain.
		The current study by the University of Nebraska may accurately describe the GM crops of a few years ago, however the new varieties do offer the increased yields that are expected.
	www.monsanto.co.uk /news/2000/june2000/14062000_monsanto.html (345 words)

	GM Rice: will this lead the way for global acceptance of GM crop technology? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The use of GM technology in global agriculture and the food supply chain is, however, currently controversial.
		Due to the importance of rice in the developing world and the significant part played by the public sector in providing new rice crop technology, the drive to apply GM technology to rice may well result in faster acceptance of the technology in rice than would be the case for other crops.
		PG Economics is publishing this report to provide GM technology providers, input suppliers, the rice millers and users, food manufacturers, distributors, traders, retailers, consumer groups and lobby groups with sound analysis of the social, economic and market dynamics that are developing and will shape the future.
	www.pgeconomics.co.uk /gm_rice.htm (1274 words)

	GM Advanced Technology - Hybrid Vehicles - Hydrogen Fuel Cell for Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Advanced technology from GM includes hybrid vehicle development, hydrogen fuel cell cars and much more.
		We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel cell research with the ultimate goal of removing the auto from the environmental equation, because we believe the automobile leads the way to the hydrogen economy and a truly sustainable future.
		As alternative technologies to the internal combustion engine evolve, our strategy is to develop a portfolio of options.
	www.gm.com /company/gmability/adv_tech/index.html (225 words)

	Genetic Engineering Of Crops And The Development Of GM Technology
		The scientists that lead the promotion of GM technology are, for the most part, leaders in their particular fields.
		The answer is simple; GE and the technology of GM are applied not for the good of all, and especially not for those who need help most, but are applied as another means of extension to resource control.
		Unfortunately for science, where GM technology is concerned, it has lost control of its humanitarian objectives and has been blinded by the rays of ultra economic imperatives, from the corporate Sun that currently shines on Planet Laboratory.
	www.portiasun.org /issue12.html (1024 words)

	GM Nation? - About the debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In this way, GM links to a general mistrust of the motives and behaviour of modern governments, a general concern that they have secret agendas, and ignore the public's views.
		The former rejected, by a majority, the idea that GM technology would benefit developing countries: the latter supported it, and their support slightly increased after people got more engaged in GM issues.
		However, in the context of the developing world opposition to GM was based less on negative feelings towards GM than on the view that there were better and more important ways to promote development, including fairer trade, better distribution of food, income and power, and better government.
	www.gmnation.org.uk /ut_09/ut_9_6.htm (1895 words)

	NZTCA - Knowledge - General - GM technology: risks and benefits
		GM technology is by no means risk free nor will it save the world.
		Now that significant areas of GM crops have been grown on a commercial basis for six years some of the benefits of this technology are emerging.
		GM crops are being developed to improve processing quality, produce pharmaceuticals such as edible vaccines and antibodies, and produce raw materials for the plastics industry to reduce our dependence on petrochemicals.
	www.treecrops.org.nz /knowl/addgen/gmrisk.html (2447 words)

	Is GM technology driven solely by profit?
		Contamination of non-GM crops by GM crops is now occurring at a serious rate and is irreversible Last week in Mexico, peasant farmers, indigenous communities and civil society organisations released the results of their own tests.
		GM genes that contaminate non-GM crops are patented and all crops containing these genes become the property of the corporations which hold these patents.
		GM canola had drifted onto his farm and was engineered to be immune to Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup.
	www.johnmadeley.co.uk /talk_2.htm (1395 words)

	Chinese rejecting GM technology, claims Greenpeace
		The survey found that 62 per cent of the respondents are aware of GM food, compared to 52 per cent in a similar survey commissioned by Greenpeace a year earlier.
		Rejection of GM food is also highest in Beijing, as 64 per cent said they would prefer non-GM food, while the figures in Shanghai and Guangzhou are 58 per cent and 50 per cent respectively.
		The current regulations governing the labelling of GM foods in China stipulate that GM soybean, corn, rape, cotton and tomato, their seeds and food oil made from them must be labelled as such.
	ap-foodtechnology.com /news/news-ng.asp?n=58777-chinese-rejecting-gm (597 words)

	Feature Article of Wednesday, 7 September 2005
		What these prophets of GM technology fail to acknowledge is that production is not the only factor that affects hunger; indeed factors such as personal/household income, land rights and access, distribution patterns, and government policies equally affect hunger and food security.
		So these countries are not merely embracing GM technology with the object of finding solutions to any problems that may arise with the application of the technology in future.
		It should always be noted that GM food technology is not a simple technical issue that should be left out to the scientists and technologists to decide its suitability; it is also a social, political and ethical issue.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=89616 (1768 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| GM technology: As risky as life itself
		All we can do, the technology's proponents argue, is continue to monitor what is happening in the field as well as in the lab - and remember the effects on wildlife of our present chemical-based agriculture.
		What concerns many opponents of GM crops is the impossibility of turning the clock back if they do finally prove dangerous, whether to other species or to human health, or by creating hybrid plants.
		The supporters of GMs say both the risks and the benefits hinge on the genes you engineer into an alien species, and on how you then take care of the result.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3117281.stm (671 words)

	New Scientist Special Report on GM Organisms
		Ten years after GM crops were first cultivated commercially, the debate over whether they should be grown at all still rages
		GM bacteria for cleaning up contaminated soil may be closer with the publication of a sewage-dwelling bug's genome sequence
		German farmers to be liable for GM contamination
	www.newscientist.com /channel/opinion/gm-food (1944 words)

	GM Technology like Microsoft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon".
		GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand-McNally road maps (now subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them.
		Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
	darrel.knutson.com /jokes/computers/microsoft/ms-gm.html (383 words)

	GM Technology: Alternative propulsion vehicles
		GM presents two new vehicles featuring alternative propulsion technologies at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
		It was designed and built at the GM Advanced Studio in Coventry, England.
		GM’s two-mode full hybrid system has been established as the starting point for the GM-DaimlerChrysler collaboration that is now also joined by BMW.
	www.gmeurope.com /news/2005/news_050913e.html (571 words)

	NASIOC - New Subaru chief hopes to tap into GM technology
		Current technology protects a driver in a crash, but our thinking is to produce a vehicle that can avoid a crash.
		GM often is criticized for trying to sell vehicles in Japan that don't meet Japanese preferences or needs.
		GM has no randd capabilities in Asia and, therefore, they can't make products tailored to the region.
	forums.nasioc.com /forums/showthread.php?t=67533 (1079 words)

	Reviews OnLine Auto: New GM Technology for 2002
		GM is continuing its technology lead as they have in the past, with fuel injection in the fifties and fiber-optic technology in the seventies.
		After driving on the road awhile, it is one of those automotive technology features that become second nature and part of your normal driving experience.
		To utilize this technology, you choose from three "driving modes" using a small control located on the instrument panel.
	www.reviewsonline.com /auto/02GMTECH.htm (769 words)

	GM: Technology Will Allow Reduction In Platinum Use
		Andres said new technology has allowed GM to use less of the metals, which have been subject to extreme price volatility and erratic supplies in recent years.
		Based on estimates of supply, cost and the amount of platinum group metals required for the 38 million automobiles subject to low emission vehicle rules globally, Andres said GM engineers are instructed to estimate future loadings of not more than 1.5 grams of platinum, 3.0 grams of palladium and 0.3 gram of rhodium per vehicle.
		GM is also working on fuel cells as an alternative to internal combustion engines.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2002/09/19/147701.html (490 words)

	GM debate
		GM crops can be grown in the UK without farmers having to notify the authorities or their neighbours," the Guardian reports.
		The charities said that GM crops were likely to create more poverty, pointing out that hunger was not caused by a shortage of food, but because the poor could not afford to buy it; and it was rich farmers who tended to take up new agricultural techniques.
		GM rape and beet were found in extensive trials to reduce farmland biodiversity and endanger birds, butterflies and insects.
	www.warmwell.com /gm.html (20035 words)

	Will GM Losses Thwart Its Tech Plans?
		GM is now evaluating proposals from a number of undisclosed companies that would like to replace EDS, once wholly owned by GM, as a supplier.
		GM may ink deals with more than one services firm, with decisions coming at the end of the year.
		GM won't detail those projects, but Mixer puts them in four broad categories: manufacturing systems; SAP standardization; managing data from engineers, designers and dealers to manage automobile life cycle and quality; and product development.
	www.baselinemag.com /article2/0,1397,1791493,00.asp (1480 words)

	Munlochy GM Vigil
		GM canola is the least popular of the GM crops with only 18% global adoption rate and almost all of that is grown in Canada.
		In the late 1990's, before GM canola was declared "safe", GM companies were lightly reprimanded for ignoring the voluntary protocols required to contain their GM canola trials in Tasmania and Topas 19/2 was one of the lines involved.
		The GM benefits are just not there to pay for the multitudes of parasites wanting to profit from GM introduction." The NCF claim that State lobby groups such as NSW Farmers, WA Farmers, GRDC, AWB and GCA are making statements that clearly oppose the policies and constitutions of their organisations.
	www.munlochygmvigil.org.uk /australia.htm (16612 words)

	Early adoption of GM technology would bring large benefits for Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Early adoption of GM technology in arable crops would bring clear farm level and environmental benefits for Poland according to a new report published today.
		The GM technology offers scope for accelerating the process of ‘productivity catch up’ post EU accession, enabling Polish producers to compete more effectively, and earlier than they might otherwise have been capable of, if they did not use GM technology’.
		GM and non GM arable crops can co-exist in the EU without problems: says new research paper
	www.pgeconomics.co.uk /poland.htm (674 words)

	Asian giants India, China bank on GM technology to feed teeming millions
		The shifts in China and India appear to be at odds with the widespread rejection of GM technology in many other countries, particularly in Europe.
		"Biotech seeds are potential carriers of state-of-the-art technologies to the remotest part of the country irrespective of the size of the farm and availability of infrastructure.
		In neighbouring China, of 353 applications between 1996 and 2000 for approval of field trials, environmental releases or commercialisation of GM plants and animals, 141 were given the go-ahead by the Chinese Office of Genetic Engineering Safety Administration.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/041017062025.b7kqzvma.html (843 words)

	The Hindu : `Thorough discussion must precede decision on GM technology'
		A thorough discussion on various aspects of genetically-modified (GM) seeds and food should be held before a final decision on adopting the new GM technology is taken.
		The evil effect of antibiotic was much more than that of GM food and so there was nothing wrong in taking the plunge to find a solution to the persisting problem.
		It was possible to produce nutrient-rich rice varieties through GM technology which would be less expensive than any other supplement.
	www.hindu.com /2004/03/14/stories/2004031403930500.htm (606 words)

	The Hindu : Sci Tech : Fighting malaria with GM technology
		Prof Crisanti argued that, because the new GM mosquitoes are sterilised, releasing them into the environment does not pose significant risks: "It won't transmit any genes to the environment.
		This allows us to test the transgenic technology in a very safe way that overcomes the previous environmental and safety concerns." Releasing males only would ensure people were not bitten by GM mosquitoes, he added.
		Sue Mayer of Genewatch agreed that the new GM insect did address some of the previous concerns, but she called for thorough testing of the mosquitoes before they were considered for release.
	www.hindu.com /seta/2005/10/13/stories/2005101301611700.htm (881 words)

	Toyota, GM technology partnership nears end - Automotive - MSNBC.com
		GM and Toyota officials — including former Toyota president Fujio Cho and GM’s head of research, Larry Burns — have said since last year that both sides are talking about possible collaboration in technology.
		GM sold 9.17 million vehicles worldwide in 2005, the most it has sold in 27 years.
		GM, which lost $8.6 billion last year, has announced a revival plan to cut 30,000 jobs and close 12 plants by 2008.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/11517513 (656 words)

	Rural News - 08/04/2004: American farmers embrace GM Technology
		The latest USDA planting report reveals that 86 per cent of this year's soybean crop will be GM varieties, while 76 per cent of cotton acreage and 46 per cent of corn will be GM.
		The Federation is talking to the Victorian Government about whether it will approve small trials of GM canola, similar to the 420-hectare plots given the green light in New South Wales last week.
		This is a transcript from the ABC National Rural News that is broadcast daily to all states on ABC Regional Radio's Country Hour and in the city on ABC News Radio.
	www.abc.net.au /rural/news/stories/s1084081.htm (362 words)

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