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University Report Cites Benefits of Bt cotton to Indian Farmers
A 170 page- report on the "Economics of Bt cotton vis-à-vis traditional cotton varieties (Study in Andhra Pradesh)" by the Agro-Economic Research Centre of the Andhra University in India concludes that Bt farmers earned three times more than non-Bt cotton farmers in Guntur district and eight times more in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. The Government of Andhra Pradesh commissioned the study three years ago to examine the advantages, disadvantages, cost of cultivation and net return to Bt cotton as compared to other cotton varieties in selected districts.Full Story
Letter to the Editor: Framing: How to confine plants of the future.
Initially I thought that the header "framing" was an amusing Freudian mistake for "farming" but as I read the highly slanted article, I realized that "framing" was indeed your intent. It is not clear whether you meant to frame biopharming in support of the pharmaceutical industry to assure that drug prices remain high, or as part of the knee-jerk anti-biotech lobby, or just to raise hysteria to sell newspapers. Full Story
A Tale of Two Scientific Consensuses.
Environmentalists constantly reference the scientific consensus that human activity is changing the global climate. "You have the strongest consensus we have seen in the science community about global climate change since the conclusion that tobacco caused lung cancer," asserts Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) president Kevin Knobloch. Greenpeace also argues, "There is, in fact, a broad and overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, is caused in large part by human activities." And Friends of the Earth has gone after Exxon Mobil because it "has repeatedly attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change and actively resisted attempts to limit carbon dioxide emissions through law." Full Story
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Sign Today!!! Let FDA, Agriculture Secretary Johanns and others at USDA Know the Benefits of PMPs - Add your voice of support for biopharming, which we will forward to USDA Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and FDA Commissioner Les Crawford. Read and sign the letter here.
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Blog entry from GMO Pundit: "GM Rice Plant's Saving Children's Lives? Sadly, an instance where hatred of capitalism obscures Love of Children."
Call for Papers: The Plant Genome, a quarterly publication of Crop Science for applied plant-genomics research (published by the Crop Science Society of America).
Report from Ventria Bioscience: Lactiva and Lysomin: Helping to Save Lives By Improving Oral Rehydration Solution -- Making Innovative Diarrhea Management Accessible
EuropaBio -- The European Association for Bioindustries
Quantitative Exposure Assessment for Confinement of Maize Biogenic Systems (PDF - 573KB) from Environmental Biosafety Resources
Plant-Made: A video documentary on the potential of Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals.
February 4 - 6, 2007 - 5th Annual BioPartnering North America
Venue: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
URL: http://www.techvision.com/bpn/
March 20 - 23, 2007 - International Symposium on Medicinal and Nutraceutical Plants Conference
Venue: Macon, Georgia
URL: http://www.ag.fvsu.edu/ishsmanp.html
May 14 - 18, 2007 - PEGS: Protein Engineering Summit
Venue: Boston, MA
URL: http://www.pegsummit.com/
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