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• Got Posilac?, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 10, 2003

• Biotechnology, Food Labeling, Risk Assessment and International Trade, posted on AgBioView, April 24, 2003

• Europe shows little taste for U.S. biotech crops, Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2002

• Crop regulators debate market acceptance, The Western Producer, March 14, 2002

• Persuading the wary consumers, GMOs and mistrust, Reuters, November 8, 2001

• GMO crops here to stay or gone with the wind?, Reuters, November 5, 2001

• Anti-GMO Sentiments Thrive Overseas, Rooster News Network, October 26, 2001

• Restaurants and grocers asked to avoid transgenic fish Environmental News Network, October 22, 2001

• Biotech Panderers, Editorial, Washington Post, August 5, 2001

• Loblaws orders GMO-free labels removed, Globe and Mail (BREAKING NEWS), June 13, 2001

• As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice, New York Times, June 9, 2001

• First open debate on GMOs in The Netherlands, AgBioView Post, June 27 2001 by Ferdinand Engelbeen

• Biotech Menu Serves up Conflict, Denver Post, May 27, 2001

• The Role of Biotechnology for Food Consumers in Developing Countries, Bouis, Howarth E., 2000, In: Matin Qaim, A. Krattiger, and J. von Braun (eds.), Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing Benefits for the Poor. Kluwer Academic Publishers (chapter 11)

• "Harvest of Fear" a PBS Frontline aired April 24, 2001 program has launched a website in conjunction with the film
  • Commentary by Chris McCullom, RD, PhD. on "Harvest of Fear"

• Biotech Bears Fruit for Farmers, but What About Consumers?, The Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2001

• GM presence in seeds inevitable, EU group says, Reuters News Service, April 6, 2001

• Pew Charitable Trusts Launch Effort to Build a New Platform For Discussion, News Release, PRNewswire, IFIC, March 27, 2001

• Selling Science to the Public, Science Magazine, March 20, 2001

• Biotech industry warned to take heed of consumer concerns, Knight Ridder/Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 22, 2001

• Biotech policy 'holds great peril', StarLink controversy may be tip of iceberg, consumer group says, Register, Washington Bureau, January 12, 2001

• Mmm, Mmm, Genetically Engineered, New York Times, August 27, 2000

• Why Many Farmers and Consumers are Lukewarm About GMOs and What Might Change Their Minds, Charles M. Benbrook, presented at the Formulations Forum 2000, Orlando, FL, September 6, 2000
  • Slides from the 'Formulations Forum 2000' -- contact Karen Lutz Benbrook

• City Council rebellions against GM grow in US - Sample Resolution 8/31/00 (CropChoice News) -- Now it's Cleveland...

• Without Warning, the American Diet Has Been Infiltrated by Dozens of Genetically Modified Foods, ELLE, July, 2000

• Biotech Backlash Mainstream Plunges Into the Struggle, Sacramento Bee, June 25, 2000

• EATING WELL; Mainstream Organics: Britain Stocks Up,
  New York Times, June 21, 2000

• Modified Foods Put Companies in a Quandary, New York Times,June 3, 2000

• Genetic Modification of Foods: The Public's Mistrust of Science and Science's Misunderstanding of the Public, Remarks of Carol Tucker Foreman, Before the 2000 American AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology, April 13, 2000

• Conservative Take on Radical Technology, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2000

• Plant Biotechnology: Consumer Power Heralds Hard Times for Researchers, Science, Volume 287, Number 5454, pp. 790 - 791, February 4, 2000

• Public Concerns Over Transgenic Crops, John Innes Centre

• Brazil State Pays Farmers to Rip Out GM Soybeans, (Reuters), December 7, 1999

• Consumers want GMO-free food, but who will pay?, Reuters World Report, December 6, 1999

• Announcing California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Ballot Initiative, December 1999

• Remarks of Edward Groth III, Ph.D., Consumers Union Of United States, Panel on "Public Information Issues", FDA Public Meeting on "Biotechnology in the Year 2000 and Beyond", Chicago, November 18, 1999

• Critical Issues Highlighted; CWB calls for a Halt on Transgenic Varieties, Manitoba Co-operator, October 28, 1999

• High Tech Food Fight, National Journal, October 23, 1999

• Consumers Have a Right to Know (Agnet Edited), The Edmonton Journal (Opinion), October 20, 1999

• Group To Oppose Genetically Altered Foods In U.S., Wall Street Journal, October 12, 1999

• Protest May Mow Down Trend to Alter Crops, LA Times, October 5, 1999

• Donut Ask, Donut Tell; Industry Officials scramble to head off GMO crisis in meat, Beef Today, October 1999

• Call for Ban on Genetically Enhanced Foods Denies Consumer Choice and Benefits, AGCare Canada, September 27, 1999

• Genetically Modified Confusion, Editorial in the Washington Post, September 17, 1999
  • Response to the Editorial in Washington Post, Dr. Charles Benbrook, September 17, 1999

• Food Safety Issue Heats Up, Bangor Daily News, August 14, 1999
  • Genetic-Crops Debate Heightens, Portland Press Herald, August 29, 1999

• Facing Fear of Biotechnology, Science, 285: 335 July 16, 1999
  • Redesigning Evolution?, Response to 'Facing Fear of Biotechnology', Science 285:1489 September 3, 1999
    • Response to: Redesigning Evolution?, Science, Volume 285:5433 September 3, 1999

• Worlds Apart: The Reception of Genetically Modified Foods in Europe and the U.S., Science 285:384, July 16, 1999

• Biotechnology: An Essay On The Academy, Cultural Attitudes And Public Policy, Drew L. Kershen, University of Oklahoma, July 1999

• The Controversy Over Bioengineered Crops: A yawning chasm separates naysayers from true believers, San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 1999

• America Angry and Puzzled by EU 'False Science', Scotsman, May 20, 1999.

• Are Genetically Engineered Foods in Accord with Jewish Law?, A Comprehensive Analysis of the Problems, Prepared by Steven M. Druker, Alliance for Bio-Integrity, 1997