Monsanto Apologizes
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A 21 February 2006 news release from the Ban Terminator Campaign reported on Monsanto's revised pledge on Terminator. Whereas the company made a public commitment in 1999 not to use Terminator technology, its new pledge suggests that it would use Terminator seeds in non-food crops and does not rule out other uses in the future. Now Monsanto's Director of Public Policy has written an apology to the Ban Terminator Campaign and concedes that it didn't really mean it would consider using Terminator in non-food crops.
Monsanto May Commercialize Terminator
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Monsanto, the world's largest seed and agbiotech company, made a public promise in 1999 not to commercialize 'Terminator Technology' - plants that are genetically engineered to produce sterile seeds. Now (February 2006) Monsanto says it may develop or use the so-called 'suicide seeds' after all. The revised pledge from Monsanto now suggests that it would use Terminator seeds in non-food crops and does not rule out other uses of Terminator in the future. Monsanto's modified stance comes to light as the biotech and seed industry confront peasant and farmer movements, Indigenous peoples and their allies in an escalating battle at the United Nations over the future of Terminator.
Prácticamente anulada, la moratoria sobre Terminator
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Los pueblos indígenas fueron traicionados y se hizo trampa a los derechos de los agricultores en la reunión de Naciones Unidas las últimas dos semanas, cuando los gobiernos de Australia, Nueva Zelanda y Canadá -siguiendo indicaciones de Estados Unidos y de una docena de Gigantes Genéticos corporativos- dieron un paso muy importante para terminar con la actual moratoria sobre la tecnología Terminator (plantas modificadas genéticamente para producir semillas estériles). Las nocivas recomendaciones que resultaron de la reunión de Granada, España, irán a la 8ava reunión bianual del Convenio de Diversidad Biológica (CDB) de la ONU en Curitiba, Brasil, del 20 al 31 de marzo de 2006.
Granada's Grim Sowers Plow Up Moratorium on Terminator, Clear the Path for its Approval at UN
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Indigenous peoples were betrayed and Farmers' Rights trampled at a UN meeting this week (March 2006) when the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian governments - guided by the US government and a brazen cabal of corporate Gene Giants - took a major step to undermine the existing moratorium on Terminator technology (i.e., plants that are genetically modified to produce sterile seeds at harvest). The damaging recommendations from the meeting in Granada, Spain, now go to the upcoming 8th biennial meeting of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Curitiba, Brazil, March 20-31, 2006.
Cresce a Ameaça do Terminator: Encontro intergovernamental para atacar o problema das sementes suicidas
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Os povos indígenas, as organizações de agricultores e os representantes da sociedade civil estão se unindo para defender uma moratória de fato das Nações Unidas sobre a tecnologia de esterilização de sementes - a moratória está atualmente sob ataque da indústria multinacional de semente e biotecnologia. Uma reunião da Comissão sobre Diversidade Biológica, onde as "sementes suicidadas" estão na agenda, acontecerá na Espanha na próxima semana. A moratória das Nações Unidas - a qual tem recomendação contra os testes a campo e a venda comercial da tecnologia de esterilização de sementes - está sob ataque. A Delta & Pine Land (uma companhia multinacional de sementes) e o Departamento de Agricultura dos Estados Unidos recentemente obtiveram novas patentes sobre o Terminator na Europa e no Canadá.