The Guardian by Arthur Neslen, Brussels Source: European Parliament Bid for exclusion by 14 countries and three regions would make two-thirds of Europe’s population and arable land GM-free Half of the European Union’s 28 countries and three of its regions have opted out of a new GM crop scheme, in a blow to biotech industry… Read more »

Seattle PI by Joel Connelly A Thurston County judge on Friday rejected efforts by the Grocery Manufacturers Association to squelch a lawsuit in which state Attorney General Bob Ferguson accuses the Washington, D.C.-based lobby of laundering millions of dollars in last fall’s campaign. The AG has accused the food industry group of setting up a… Read more »

The Independent By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn babies, startling new research suggests. The study – carried out by a leading scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences – found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed on modified soya died in… Read more »

The Calgary Herald From Herald News Services SCIENCE . An herbicide tolerant Kentucky bluegrass engineered by Scotts Miracle-Gro is not covered by U.S. biotechnology rules nor is it a weed, the Agriculture Department ruled on Friday.