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Genetically modified foods (or GM foods) are foods produced from organisms that have had specific changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering. - [|Wikipedia]

Headlines
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/05/24/3780358/gmos-nas-study-complicated/ [|La batalla contra los transgénicos en México]

[|GM contamination test case] - The West Australian Supreme court will commence hearing a test case that has farmers around Australia and even across the world on the edge of their tractor seats.

[|Supreme Court hears landmark GM crop case] - Two West Australian farmers are back in Perth's Supreme Court today in a case that could have consequences for the growing of genetically-modified crops. An organic farmer is suing his neighbour for loss of income and damages after his property was allegedly contaminated with the neighbour's genetically modified canola.

[] Community activist Geoff Holland said Prof Dale would merely be pushing the GM agenda, on behalf of Mr Gates, who has shares in GM company Monsanto. “Inviting James Dale to ECOWeek to give a keynote address at JCU is like inviting a Japanese whaler to discuss the merits of research on dead whales, or a climate sceptic to discuss whether anthropogenic global warming is really happening or not,’’ he said.

Events

 * January 18** [|Foro: Consulta Indígena Maya sobre la siembra de soya transgénica en la Península de Yucatán]
 * El objetivo de este foro es, por un lado, informar y presentar reflexiones sobre el proceso de consulta que se realizará en torno a la siembra de soya transgénica en la Península de Yucatán; y, por otro lado, apoyar en la recaudación de fondos para poder dar seguimiento al proceso de consulta, lo cual requiere crear y difundir material informativo sobre la consulta, impartir talleres y sesiones informativas, formar promotores locales y brigadas de observación, diseñar mecanismos de denuncia sobre irregularidades en el proceso, entre otros elementos necesarios para que la consulta sea libre, informada y de buena fe. || The aim of this forum is, first, inform and present reflections on the consultation process to be held around the planting of transgenic soybeans in the Yucatan Peninsula; and, on the other hand, support in raising funds to follow up the consultation process, which requires creating and disseminating information materials on the consultation, giving workshops and briefings, training local promoters and observation brigades, design mechanisms complaint about irregularities in the process, among other elements necessary for the consultation is free, informed and in good faith. ||

Colegio de Antropólogos de Yucatán, A. C., Equipo Indignación, A. C. y [|Ma OGM Colectivo sin Transgénicos]

Participan: Jorge Fernández Mendiburu, abogado de [|Ma OGM Colectivo sin Transgénicos] -Pablo Monroy Gómez, Magistrado del Tribunal Unitario del Décimo Cuarto Circuito -Jorge Chan, apicultor -Modera: Rodrigo Llanes Salazar, presidente del Colegio de Antropólogos de Yucatán, A. C.

@https://fondeadora.mx/projects/consulta-indigena-maya http://mayapolitikon.com/foro-consulta-indigena-maya-sobre-la-siembra-de-soya-transgenica-en-la-peninsula-de-yucatan

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