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		<title>Courting Arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courting Arrest. By Foodchoices On Friday, July 10th, in Hyderabad, Greenpeace activists which included film-star Amala Akkineni, courted arrest at Patancheru Police Station in continuation of their protests against field trials of GM rice in the village of Chinna Kanjaria. Bayer Bio-Science which is conducting these trials had pressed charges against the activists who cordoned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=137&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victory after a Nine year legal battle.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victory after a Nine year legal battle. By Foodchoices Bio-watch, a small NGO from South Africa working on issues of bio-diversity , sustainable agriculture etc. has won a battle against the State and Monsanto in a case where the State refused to divulge information about the GM crops that were being cultivated in South Africa. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=130&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Myths, Some Facts</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/some-myths-some-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Myths, Some Facts. By Foodchoices. It was a long time ago. Man and Nature lived in harmony with each other. Nature fulfilled Man’s needs and desires uncomplainingly. In this land which bordered the sea there was more water than land. Man desired for land that he could cultivate and from the depths of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=121&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YORA: Year of Rice Action</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/yora-year-of-rice-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YORA : Year of Rice Action 2009-2010. By Foodchoices. While NGO’s and many other concerned organizations in the rice growing belt of Asia are  joining hands to celebrate YORA, Year of Rice Action and to say no to GM Rice and the associated ills, Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation instead of supporting causes like this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=119&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obamas&#8217; Organic Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 06:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obamas’ Organic Garden. Why is Obama family going organic while the rest of their Nation and many other countries are being subjected to deadly toxins manufactured by the U.S. Bio-tech Companies? Michelle Obama as a caring wife and mother no doubt wants her family to eat healthy. Will this concern also extend to her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=114&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German Court rules against Monsanto Plea</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/german-court-rules-against-monsanto-plea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters UK  reports that the German Court has rejected Monsanto&#8217;s application to lift the ban on Monsanto Maize. The Court has said that under German laws it was not necessary to provide scientific proof that a new plant variety was dangerous in order to ban it. http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUKL558166220090505?sp=true Worth celebrating, but Monsanto is not likely to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=110&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Seed Growers: Sustainable Alternatives.</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/the-seed-growers-sustainable-alternatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SEED GROWERS: Sustainable Alternatives Nestling at the foot of the Western Ghats, in the only spot where the ranges part as if to allow the monsoon clouds to blow into neighbouring parched Tamil Nadu, lies the “Forest of Paala”* or Palakkad. Also known as Palghat in English ,it is variously described as the Granary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=107&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>False Promises?</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/false-promises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of the online &#8220;Mother Earth News&#8221; [April29,2009] carries in it an article, &#8220;A Blow to GMO&#8217;s&#8221; which also speaks of Monsanto&#8217;s propaganda which I had written about in my last post. The article which is actually a news report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, talks of how the bio-tech industry has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=104&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monsanto: wooing the public.</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/monsanto-wooing-the-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coinciding with the elections in many states ,Times Of India [ 23/04/09], carried a big advertisement , ¾ page , by none other than Monsanto. I don’t recall having seen Ad’s by Monsanto in the newspaper earlier, or maybe I just have’nt noticed. In the face of the mounting opposition to GM seeds this seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=95&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greenpeace : Germany bans Monsanto&#8217;s maize</title>
		<link>http://foodchoices.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/greenpeace-germany-bans-monsantos-maize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany bans Monsanto&#8217;s maize 15 April 2009 http://tinyurl.com/cs3wmk Brussels, Belgium — We&#8217;re thrilled with an historic victory against genetically engineered crops. Germany has just announced that it will become the sixth EU country to ban the cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) maize MON810 &#8211; the only GE crop that can be commercially grown in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foodchoices.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7305373&amp;post=89&amp;subd=foodchoices&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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