The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside
Julian Rose exposes the scandal of EU’s deliberate policy to get rid of family farms for the benefit of the corporations and gives a personal account of his battle with the GMO dragon that threatens to devastate rural Poland
Julian Rose 29th May 2008 |
Full House for Food Futures Now
It was the warmest day of the year so far and inside the sumptuously decorated Jubilee Room in the House of Commons there was barely standing room. The capacity audience were gathered for the launch of the much acclaimed ISIS report.
Sam Burcher 1st May 2008 |
"UK Farmers Upbeat about GM Crops" Debunked
Government Funding Industry to Market GM Crops
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders 26th March 2008 |
Letter in Support of Poland's GMO Free Status
Poland announced it would stick to its ban on 12 February 2008
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th February 2008 |
Support French Scientist Telling the Truth About GMOs
Dr. Christian Vélot, has lost his funding. There is a committee of support for Vélot and they have organised a petition that has attracted 9288 signatures as of 26 January 2008. You can sign it on line. Please also send the link to your friends
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 12th February 2008 |
UK and Irish Politicians Denounce Canadian Government Agent’s Dirty Tricks over GMOs
Prominent politicians condemn Canadian government employee for fraudulent research, disinformation, intimidation of UK and Irish citizens and attempt to sabotage Irish Government policy.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st February 2008 |
More on Science and Scientist Abused
Dr. Erina Ermakova, senior scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose work we featured was approached by an editor of Nature Biotechnology to co-author an article describing her work. This turned out to be a scandalous attempt to destroy her reputation and discredit her work .Below is the first press coverage in Switzerland. The matter is still unresolved, so please circulate widely and write your own letter to Nature Biotechnology
Roland Fischer 12th November 2007 |
GM-Free Europe Beginning?
A remarkable sequence of events since ISIS’ European Parliament Briefing Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe [1] may mean the beginning of the end of genetically modified crops in Europe.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 9th November 2007 |
UK Government's Dirty GM Secrets
UK Government funding genetically modified (GM) crop projects at tens of millions of pound and colluding with a biotech company to ease its GM field trials
Dr Mae-Wan Ho 6th November 2007 |
Emergency Motion on Protecting the Honeybee
Question Tabled to European Commission by Ms Hiltrud Breyer MEP of Strasbourg
Ms Hiltrud Breyer MEP 22nd June 2007 |
Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe
Independent scientists, MEPs, farmers and citizens united at the European Parliament condemning GMOs; the European Food Safety Authority to be sued
Sam Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 21st June 2007 |
Scientists for a GM Free Europe
Scientists from six countries join forces with MEPs to call for a Europe wide and worldwide ban on growing GM crops.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 11th June 2007 |
GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham
Regulators such as the European Food Safety Authority and UK's Food Standards Agency have been ignoring the precautionary principle, manipulating and corrupting science, sidestepping the law, and helping to promote GMOs in the face of massive public opposition and damning evidence piling up against the safety of GM food and feed.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 9th March 2007 |
Approval of GM Crops Illegal, US Federal Courts Rule
The courts said it three times so it must be true
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st March 2007 |
Moratorium on all GM Trees and Ban on GM Forest Trees
Genetically modified (GM) trees have all the hazards of GM crops only worse, GM forest trees, in particular, are the ultimate threat to people and planet
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 18th February 2007 |
GM Food Nightmare Unfolding and the Regulatory Sham
How our regulators are ignoring the precautionary principle, manipulating and corrupting science, sidestepping the law, and helping to promote GMOs in the face of massive public opposition and damning evidence piling up against the safety of GM food and feed
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th February 2007 |
Is FDA Promoting or Regulating Cloned Meat and Milk?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins find cloned meat and milk unethical and unsafe.
This article has been submitted to the FDA. Please circulate widely to your elected representatives
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho & Prof. Joe Cummins 26th January 2007 |
Making the World GM-Free & Sustainable
Keynote Lecture to Wise Traditions Conference, Weston A Price Foundation, 11 November 2006
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 5th December 2006 |
GM Crops and Microbes for Health or Public Health Hazards?
Food crops genetically modified to overproduce single nutrients could be public health hazards as overdose of many single nutritional factors are known to be toxic
Genetically modifying natural gut bacteria could turn them into pathogens pre-adapted to invade the human gut
Dr.Mae-Wan Ho & Prof. Joe Cummins 16th November 2006 |
GM Food Animals Coming
Foods derived from genetically modified animals are likely to be contaminated by potent vaccines, immune regulators, and growth hormones, as well as nucleic acids, viruses, and bacteria that have the potential to create pathogens and to trigger cancer
Dr Mae-Wan Ho & Prof Joe Cummins 15th November 2006 |
Genetically Modified Food Animals Coming
Foods derived from genetically modified animals are far from safe. They are likely to be contaminated by potent vaccines, immune regulators, and growth hormones, as well as nucleic acids, viruses, and bacteria that have the potential to create pathogens and to trigger cancer.
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th September 2006 |
GM Crops for Health?
New genetically modified crops are being promoted for nutritional or health benefits. Health depends on a balance of macro and micronutrients, cofactors and vitamins, best achieved by organic agricultural practices. Overdose of many single nutritional factors can be toxic, and hence food crops genetically modified to overproduce single nutrients could be public health hazards.
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 24th September 2006 |
What's Really Behind the Bird Flu Outbreaks?
Wild birds, farmyard chickens and people are the victims of bird flu not the perpetrators. Intensive poultry farming and globalised poultry trade are to blame for creating and spreading the virus; but what really causes bird flu outbreaks?
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny 19th September 2006 |
India's Biotech Future
Public-private partnership is the cornerstone of India's National Biotechnology Development Strategy
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd September 2005 |
Sustainable World Coming
Independent scientists, economists, politicians, and activists met to share knowledge and ideas for sustainable food systems as the industrial model is close to collapse. Rhea Gala reports on the Sustainable World First International Conference
Rhea Gala 8th August 2005 |
Canada Denies Visa for Africa's Chief Biosafety and Biodiversity Negotiator
Interference with international negotiations has plumbed new depths
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 20th May 2005 |
Corporate Hijack of Sustainable Agriculture
Agribusiness is embracing sustainable agriculture in the form of ecoagriculture. Prof. Miguel Altieri explains why it isn't the genuine approach
Prof. Miguel Altieri 16th November 2004 |
Beware the New Biotech Eurovision
The biotech industry is promoting a vision for plant biotechnology through the European Commission
Rhea Gala 29th October 2004 |
Keep GM Out of Europe!
Independent scientists, politicians and farmers have joined up to call for a GM-free Europe, and for urgent support for non-GM sustainable agriculture.
Lim Li Ching 26th October 2004 |
Letter to the California Department of Food and Agriculture
A letter written to the Secretary of Food and Agriculture and Govenor Arnold Scharzenegger outlining concerns over Biopharmeceutical rice in California
Prof. Joe Cummins & Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th April 2004 |
Independent Science Panel Challenges Approval of GM Maize
Dr. Brian John of GM-Free Cymru and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Director of the Institute of Science in Society, both members of the Independent Science Panel on GM launched 10 May 2003, have written a strongly worded letter to Margaret Beckett to challenge the approval of Chardon LL GM maize for Britain
Dr. Brian John and Mae-Wan Ho 6th March 2004 |
Lead Us Not Into GM
A resounding 'No' to GMOs
Sam Burcher 26th October 2003 |
Independent Science Panel rejects Conclusions of GM Science Review
The UK Government's GM Science Review issued its First Report in July 2003 amid accusations of pro-GM bias. One member of the Panel resigned weeks earlier, and another complained that a senior scientist attempted to undermine his research funding and career.
Lim Li Ching 20th October 2003 |
Dutch Precaution Keeps Bt Crops At Bay
Dutch ecologists outline risk-assessment strategy for Bt-crops based on the precautionary principle, highlighting special concerns associated with small farms in Europe as opposed to much larger farms in the United States.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 10th October 2003 |
The GM National Debate Farce
'What debate?' Asks Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10th September 2003 |
GM Science Review Deeply Flawed
"Sidesteps fundamental criticisms of GM technology", "fails to take the full range of scientific evidence INTO account", "riddled with misrepresentations, half-truths and worse". ISIS rejects UK Government's GM Science Review
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 26th August 2003 |
ISP letter to the President of Croatia
Re: Croatias stance on GM crops
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th July 2003 |
Letter to President Lula
re: Brasilian governments stance on transgenic soya
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th June 2003 |
Biotech Debacle in Four Parts
1. Stock Market Plummets, Investment Dries Up, Companies shut down R&D
2. Recent Evidence of Genetic Biohazards
3. GM crops rejected worldwide
4. Biosafety regulations tighten worldwide
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching 28th October 2002 |
ISIS Condemns Prime Minister's Scoping Note
British Prime Minister's Strategy Unit's Scoping Note on 'The Costs and Benefits of Genetically Modified (GM) crops' suffers from two fatal flaws. The first is the omission of the non-GM option from the scope of the study. The second is the failure to take account of the abundant evidence indicating that the entire GM enterprise is sinking because it is not working.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th October 2002 |
Blair’s Biotech Vision Clouded
Blair’s vision of biotechnology and science is outmoded and out of touch with market reality. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho asks why Blair and other governments are throwing even more public money away at a sinking titanic of enterprises, while vital health and agricultural services are disintegrating for want of rational investments.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 23rd June 2002 |
Letter To The Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee
I am writing to support the Munlochy Vigil petition, to call for an immediate end to GM OSR trials in Scotland and for a full Parliamentary debate, with a free vote on the issue of GM crops in Scotland.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4th March 2002 |
Pro-GM Royal Society Fellow Named as Source of Libel Case Allegations
The Hight Court in London has been told that a letter from Prof. Anthony Trewavas, wellknown champion of GM and critic of organic, contained a series of unfounded allegations about Greenpeace and Lord Melchett that should never have been published.
Jonathan Mathews 11th October 2001 |
Europes New Rules Could Sink All GMOs
New European legislation requires detailed molecular characterisation of GMOs to document genetic stability. This is the single most important criterion in biosafety risk assessment
Angela Ryan and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th August 2001 |
ISIS Letter to Sri Lankan Government
GM technology is overwhelmingly rejected by citizens all over the world as a dangerous technology in the service of corporations and acting against the common good
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd August 2001 |
ISIS Letter to Indonesian Government re GM Cotton
It is becoming increasingly evident that GM technology is inherently hazardous both in agriculture and in medicine. The most recent findings are summarized as a letter to the Indonesian government
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th August 2001 |
Open Letter to Scientific Steering Committee on Farmscale Field Trials
We are writing to express our concern that the UK farmscale field trials of Aventis Chardon LL GM maize and other GM crops should not continue. Any new technology must be tested, but there are important scientific issues that must be addressed
I-SIS 15th May 2001 |
Investing in Healthcare or the Healthmarket?
The UK Medical Research Council is squandering our tax money to help corporations cash in on the healthmarket.
Nick Papadimitriou 18th April 2001 |
Open Letter to New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering
It is becoming increasingly evident that GM technology is inherently hazardous both in agriculture and in medicine. The most recent findings are summarized as a letter to the NewZealand government
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th March 2001 |
Parliamentary Briefing to UK Government
Arranged by ISIS through Alan Simpson MP and Presented by Professor Terje Traavik
I-SIS 20th February 2001 |
Best Practice in the Design of GM Crops
Comment on Consultation Document from Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment ACRE of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Prof. Joe Cummins and Jeremy Bartlett 6th December 2000 |
Scientific Advisory System Inquiry Genetically Modified Foods Memorandum
We consider the scientific advice at present to be inadequate in terms of scope and balance, and insufficiently up-to-date. The precautionary principle does not appear to be part of the framework of advisory committees. The current system lacks the ability to respond to rapid scientific developments.
Professor Peter Saunders |
Letter to the New Zealand Minister of Food and Fibre
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
