Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

 

  1. Property Rights in Genetically Modified Plants 
  2. State GMO Restrictions and the Dormant Commerce Clause
  3. Almost half of all state legislatures passed bills relating to ag biotech in 2001 (including Missouri)
  4. Criminalizing Crop Destruction and Intentional Animal Release (Missouri statutes, 2001)
    1. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 537.353:  Liability for damage or destruction of field crop products
      *double damages   *reasonable attorney fees
    2. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 578.023:  Keeper of dangerous wild animals must register animals
    3. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 578.029:  Knowingly releasing an animal, crime of--penalty
    4. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 578.414:  The Crop Protection Act
    5. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 578.416:  Crop Protection Act--Prohibited Acts
    6. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 578.418:  Crop Protection Act--Violations, Penalties, Civil Actions
    7. Missouri Statutes, Chapter 578.420:  Crop Protection Act--Investigation of Alleged Violations
  5. Farmers' Liability for GMO Crops (pdf)
  6. Biosafety Protocol for Genetically Modified Organisms:  Overview (CRS Report, July 5, 2000)
  7. Genetically Engineered Foods
  8. CropChoice.com:  Alternatives for American farmers
  9. Monsanto goes after Indiana farmer for Roundup contract violations
  10. Corporate seed police
  11. Food Safety Issues (Consumers Union, producers of the magazine Consumer Reports)
  12. A Report Card for the EPA, Successes and Failures in Implementing the Food Quality Protection Act
  13. SCIENCE, PRECAUTION AND FOOD SAFETY: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?
  14. GENETIC ENGINEERING IS NOT AN EXTENSION OF CONVENTIONAL PLANT BREEDING:  How genetic engineering differs from conventional breeding, hybridization, wide crosses and horizontal gene transfer
  15. TOWARDS A MORE PRECAUTIONARY AND MORE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO RISK ASSESSMENT:  A CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE ON FOOD SAFETY
  16. Position Paper on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture (Midwest Sustainable Ag Working Group)
  17. Obtaining Approval to Market GMOs in the European Union
  18. Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids (Harl)
  19. Further Discussion on Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids (Harl)
  20. Genetically Modified Crops:  Guidelines for Producers  (Harl)
  21. GMO Labelling:  Effects on Core Business Objectives in the Grains Value Chain (Ginder)
  22. Economic Perspectives on GMO Market Segregation
  23. GMOs in Europe: A Genetically Modified Ordeal?
  24. Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids  
  25. Further Discussion on the Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids 
  26. Genetically Modified Organisms
  27. Health Implications of GM Foods
  28. AgBioS (Agriculture & Biotechnology Strategies--Canada)
  29. Biotechnology for the Developing World ("pro" speech)
  30. Council for Biotechnology Information (pro-GM industry)
  31. Genetically Modified Food:  UK and World News
  32. Who's Spinning the GM Story?
  33. Monsanto: Visionary or Architect of Bioserfdom? A Global Socio-Economic Examination of Genetically Modified Organisms
  34. Biotechnology: Commercialization and Economic Aspects
  35. Australian scientist calls for socio-economic considerations in GE debate
  36. Biotech and Developing Countries
  37. 31 Critical Questions in Agricultural Biotechnology
  38. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING: THE MORAL AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  39. Journal of Biolaw & Business
  40. Basic Principles in Bioethics & Biolaw
  41. Class Action Lawsuits
  42. CAST Position Statement on Food and Agricultural Biotechnology
  43. Spotlight on Genetically Engineered Foods (law firm newsletter)
  44. Position Paper on Genetic Engineering (Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group)
  45. Health Implications of Genetically Modified Foods (Professor Liam Donaldson and Sir Robert May)
  46. Professor William H. Lesser (economist, Cornell), researches "implications of patents for plants, seeds, and animals
  47. U.S. vs. EU:  An Examination of the Trade Issues Surrounding Genetically Modified Food (pdf; 14 pages)
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Focusing more on the StarLink controversies:

  1. StarLink Corn Controvery (CRS Report, January 10, 2001)
  2. Europeans Adopt Tough New Rules For GMO Foods (2/15/2001)
  3. Aventis Fires Top Managers in Wake of StarLink Scandal (2/12/01)
  4. 44 Americans Claim StarLink Corn Made Them Ill
  5. Latest News About the StarLink GE Corn Scandal
  6. EPA Advisory Panel Reports on StarLink Corn (December 5, 2000)
  7. CAST:  Voluntary Recall of Taco Bell Taco Shells Containing StarLink Corn
  8. Aventis Inks StarLink Settlement: Farmers, Elevators to get Millions
  9. StarLink said to be contained
  10. Missouri starts testing service for StarLink
  11. Japan finds more Bt corn in shipments
  12. StarLink said to be contained
  13. Biotech jeopardizes world's food supply
  14. Missouri Attorney General wants Aventis to post bond
  15. Scientists urge more Bt scrutiny
  16. Biotech corn problems hurting exports
  17. Lack of regulation making it hard to keep StarLink out of nation's food supply
  18. EPA promises rigorous review of biotech corn
  19. StarLink corn: How it reached the food supply
  20. Growers grapple with challenges of handling GMOs
  21. Biotech labeling suit dismissed: FDA policy on gene-altering stands
  22. Unapproved corn found in tacos (September 18, 2000)
  23. Aventis CropScience extends deadline for farmers to file for marketing costs
  24. StarLink Corn Information from the Illinois Department of Agriculture
  25. Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids
  26. Further Discussion on Acceptability in Commercial Channels of GMO Hybrids
  27. EPA's Biopesticides News and Topics Website
  28. StarLink:  More Bad News for Biotech
  29. Possible Human Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Bt Crops
  30. Aventis on Allergens and the Protein Allergen in StarLink Corn
  31. Aventis' website of press releases about the StarLink controversy
  32. BSE and GMOs:  Facts and Fantasies 
  33. Is There A Future For Genetically Engineered Food?
  34. Consumer Groups Shouldn't Reject Biotech (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
  35. StarLink Corn and Food Allergies:  Statement to EPA by Michael Hansen
  36. Comments on the Human Health and Product Characterization Sections of EPA's Bt Plant-Pesticides Biopesticides Registration Action Document
  37. FOOD SAFETY REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED STATES: DIFFERENT CULTURES, DIFFERENT LAWS, by Marsha A. Echols.  Summer, 1998, 4 Colum. J. Eur. L. 525, 13,302 words.
  38. BIOTECH POLLUTION: ASSESSING LIABILITY FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP PRODUCTION AND GENETIC DRIFT, by Richard A. Repp.  2000, 36 Idaho L. Rev. 585, 20,077 words or 37 pages.  (good discussion of liability theories)
  39. DIVERGING VIEWS OF DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TOWARD THE PATENTABILITY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, by Kevin W. McCabe.  Fall, 1998, 6 J. Intell. Prop. L. 41, 13,319 words.
  40. CHILLING OF THE CORN:  AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE FACE OF U.S. PATENT LAW AND THE CARTAGENA
    PROTOCOL, by Cliff D. Weston.  Summer, 2000, 4 J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 377, 18,965 words.
  41. "GMO:" Genetically Modified Organism or Gigantic Monetary Obligation?  The Liability Schemes for GMO Damage in the United States and the European Union, by A. Bryan Endres.  August, 2000, 22 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 453, 27,716 words or 60 pages.  (good discussion of liability theories)
  42. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?" Corporate Liability for the International Propagation of Genetically Altered Agricultural Products, by Stephen Kelly Lewis.  Spring, 1997, 10 Transnat'l Law. 153, 28,003 words or 52 pages.  (good discussion of liability theories)
  43. Biotechnology Through the Eyes of an Opponent: The Resistance of Activist Jeremy Rifkin, by Paul S. Naik.  Spring, 2000, 5 Va.
    J.L. & Tech. 5, 26133 words.
  44. Class Actions and Social Issue Torts in the Gulf South, by Francis E. McGovern.  June, 2000, 74 Tul. L. Rev. 1655, 11108 words.

NOTE:  To access the law journal articles mentioned above in items 26-33, you can use ACADEMIC UNIVERSE (Lexis-Nexis) over the internet IF you have access through the University's subscription (Do you connect to the internet by dialing up the University's modem pool?).  Click on "Legal Research," and then "Law Reviews."  Type in the "Keyword" box either the title or the author's name, making sure you select under "Date" through the pull-down menu the relevant time period, such as "previous five years" instead of the "previous six months."
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