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Genetic Engineering Websites

Nearly all of the content and addresses by Judy Kew , web page formatting by James Crook . The original page this one was adapted from can be found here . If you visit that page you will see why I reformatted it.

On this page an 'X' indicates a broken link. Any help in repairing these links and keeping this links page up to date would be welcome.

Quick Jump

Irish Sites:

VOICE: "Voice Of Irish Concern for the Environment", an organisation campaigning against the patenting of life.
Ireland's Eco Warriors: With links to other Irish NGO's (=Non-Government Organisations).
Ireland license: Full outline to date of the High Court Judicial Review of the EPA's granting of a license to Monsanto Plc. to field test GMO sugar beet in Ireland.
X Genetic Concern Ireland
X Genetic Concern Ireland: These links used to give information on judicial review and protests on releases in Ireland. The first link has gone and the second is now merely an advert for an organic food distributor.

Originally I produced two sections, 'Home-Brew' sites for individual activists producing pages of their own personal opinions, and 'Mega Sites' from the larger organisations. It turns out that this is an impractical distinction - but I've kept it all the same!

Home-brew Sites:

The Activist: Site by Dr. Costas Giannakenas MD
www.greenbuilder.com: Judy Kew and Friends enviro network
Jaan Suurk: Chairman of Physicians and Scientists against Genetically Engineered Food. An international network for a moratorium on release of GE-products.
James Crook's: letter to the Department of the Environment in response to their consultation document on GMOs and GMMs.
Paul Mobbs: English enviro issues including g/e
John Rose: Englishman campaigning on g/e
Pure Food Campaign Homepage: Excellent campaign from Ronnie Cummins and compadre's, old adversaries of Genetic Engineering.

Mega Sites:

NLP Canada.: Natural Law Party Main GE Index
NLP Canada.: List of concerns about Genetic Engineering
NLP Canada.: Quotes from Scientists against GE.
NLP U.K.: Natural Law Party. Well presented auguments on all issues pertaining to the struggle. John Fagan, one of the leading speakers on things GMO
Mothers for Natural Law
Mothers for Natural Law: Succesful group of concerned mothers instrumental in many campaign endeavors.
Greenpeace Homepage: Homepage
Greenpeace petition: Petition against the EPA regarding the approval of BT Toxin.
News GE: Another good source of info from Greenpeace on NEWS G/E
Greenpece Bio Tech: Information and Campaign Highlights
Monsanto: Monsanto Homepage.
Soya growers & exporters: Combined pages for growers and exporters of Soya.(US)
FOE Homepage: Friends of the Earth UK information on various Enviro concerns with release sites in UK.
FOE: more from Friends of the Earth on it's anti/ge campaign.
RAFI: RAFI Is A Third Network working against unfair patenting and bio-piracy
RAFI: Australian plant bio-piracy problems.
UIUC: Sustainable Agriculture.
UIUC Soya Politics (Discussion)
Netlink: Combined Web Pages (SWEDISH). Lots of Info.
Swedish anti-biotech info service: this article covering Bio-Diversity
X Earth First (Devon): Good articles on G/E.
X Earth First (Devon): Toxic Mutants etc.
X Earth First (Devon): Earth First again with an excellent article about the cauliflower mosaic virus.
Rachel..: Rachel's hazardous waste homepage.

Larger News Services & Search Engines:

www.NewsPage.com: You can set Newspage to search the whole of the internet for you, so you have a newspaper e-mail delivered everyday without having to search, only catch is $5 dollars a month mine is set with six choices 1. Biotech Agriculture 2. Bio-tech Companies 3.Enviromental Regulations 4. Animal testing 5. Bio-Tech Medicine etc. EXCELLENT SOURCE OF INFO
CNN Searcher.: Good source of material available on health, enviroment politics etc worldwide.
CNN article: about the 300,000 Vietnamese children Chemical War Victims from the Vietnam War. Monsanto as one of the makers of Agent Orange(Dioxin) have not paid out compensation owing to the Constitutional Protection they received from the US Government. I myself accessed this article when the picture of the vietnamese child Thoa was included who suffers from skin cancers(I HAVE COPIES) IT HAS BEEN REMOVED.at the same time as g/e soya arrived in Europe. WHY?
Reuters News Service: has good Search engine to browse for up to date news.
Reuters Health Information.: It has a good Search Engine that specialises in Health issues worldwide.
New Scientist: Web pages for the magazine,covers quite a lot on Biotech
Chicago Tribune: Another US News Service but priceless to guage things US

Smaller Magazines:

The Biotechnology and Development Monitor: This has now reached the internet. Since March 1998, you can visit us under the URL It is possible to retrieve whole issues, single articles and a search engine helps to find relevant information. Your comments are warmly appreciated. Monitor is a well edited and relieable journal from The Netherlands, in case you do not already know it. Good discussion and background to issue... Up to now it has been print only, no charge.
Nexus: Australian Enviromental magazine exposing fraud and corruption.

Government Organisations and Law:

www.oecd.org: Cooperative resource from Unido and OECD.
Binas: Part of Unido
British Gvt Report: British Government Advisories Commision on Human Genetics. 1998 Report Available
Euro/British Legislation
Enviromental Protection Agency...: The place to check on Legislation and press releases in US of EPA
EPA: Euro/Paliament news releases
EPA Docs: FYI and EPA documents on what constitutes food quality.
Bioguide: UK dep/trade industry bioguide European Parliament
EU on GE: European Parliament G/E Releases statements for 1998.
Europarliament news
Codex: Codex. Very important issues decided by this commitee appointed by GATT and WTO to overseer the introduction of G/E foods
Defamation Laws: Anti-food defamation laws in USA
Library of Congress: Very useful tool when needed all American Law and Constitution Reform is available here.
Supreme Court Index.: Another excellent tool for information when needed
ACRE Information releases.: DOE
DoE: Department Eviroment/Transport and the Regions UK gov web pages on GMO Releases

Intellectual Property:

GE Patents & 3rd Worlds: Excellent information on g/e patents third world issues.
IPR: Good article about Intellectual Property Rights.

Organic and Vegetarian:

OFMA: Organic Farmers Marketing Association website - place for organic farmers and suppliers to connect.
Earthfoods: UK soil association (Organics )
Organic poll web pages..: make your mark.
Pesticides Action Network: .
Vegetarian Soc: Vegetarian Society on Gen/Eng

Animal Lib and Supplies:

Tech-Resources: Transgenic animals available for research
Order Transgenic Animals: To order your transgenic animals for research purposes etc heres the place.
'Uncaged': Animal rights activism against experiments, and xenotransplantations.

Somewhat Different...:

SHAG!: Super Heroes Against Genetics.
3 Pages: Interesting Triple selection of Web pages from G.P and on the opposing sides Monsanto and Soya Growers. Unusual for presenting oposing views.
Rumours: Find out all the scandal within the industry. Rumours and their source etc.

Other Campaigning Sites:

UCS: Here is the Union of Concerned Scientists Site address. Has a chart of GE crops.
Third World Network: Great site with a southern perspective called the Third World Network. It is where I first encountered the writing of Vandana Shiva.
The Natural History of genes: Science Education Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah School of Medicine, Eccle sinstitute of Human Genetics.
RBGH: Excellent expose of the RBGH Scandal from Robert Cohen and Friends.
Commercial interests: Survey of Commercial/Trans Global Selfish Interest.
Bio-Diversity: Convention on Biological Diversity
Fairfield: Help to avert the dangers of G/E
Eco-Warrior DoE: Department of the Enviroment Our very own Eco Warrior Force.
www.corpwatch.org: Corporate watch, great team of enviromentalists
Aseed: ASEED is a Dutch Euro-group involved in g/e and other enviro issues
www.twnside.org
Religious Alliance for Bio-Integrity
Gentech newslist..: good old friends in Germany. WWW versions.
Eugenics watch.: UK and USA.
RTS: Last but by no means least RTS! .

Three excellent mailing lists are:

GENTECH@ping.de : (submissions to the list(s)) OR GENTECH-REQUEST@ping.de (Adminstrativa like(un)subscriptions)

rts@gn.apc.org : The very excellent list from Reclaim the Streets the UK eviromentalist activism network. Put subscribe genetics in main body.

Ban-GEF@lists.txinfinet.com : Thank you to our friends at BanGef.

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"Genetic Engineering Websites" page last updated 5-July-2003