This from Organic Consumers(organicconsumers.org):
FIRED BIOTECH CRITIC PROFESSOR FILES LAWSUIT
A well-respected professor at the University of California in Berkeley has been fired after publishing a scientific paper exposing the reckless contamination of irreplaceable native Mexican corn varieties by genetically engineered corn exported from the U.S. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, whose corn contamination article was published in the science journal "Nature," was mysteriously denied his tenure, despite the fact the UC Berkeley tenure review panel had actually voted almost unanimously to approve his tenure. In response, Chapela filed a lawsuit last week against the college. The former professor says the University removed him under pressure from Novartis, a multinational biotechnology corporation who had offered the school millions of dollars in funding. [b]Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr. Chapela's tenure denial. http://www.organicconsumers.org/uc.htm [/b]
In addition to signing the petition, I would recommend not purchasing anything from Novartis and letting them know that we don't need no stinkin' biotech!
Genetic engineering has not had any independent research done on the efficacy or impact on the environment or on people. Given that genetic engineering has crept into non-GMO crops, that other countries are so adamantly opposed to it (including countries that people are starving) that they forbid it, one can only wonder why they continue foisting it on the public.
I also wonder about a possible link with the increase in diabetes and GMO's. I see a correlation of the years that GMO's were in the public sphere and the gradual increase of the disease. I would like to see some smart scientist do an independent study of this.
