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David Tribe on 11 April 2011
From GMO Pundit.
12 April 2011. Press release
A pioneering Australian research alliance is leading the international race to break the world’s reliance on fish stocks for its supply of the vital dietary nutrient, long chain omega-3.
Today (Tuesday 12 April) three Australian organisations announced a $50 million dollar research collaboration which will use leading edge gene technology to develop and commercialise vegetable oil which will contain the same high quality, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) rich long chain omega-3 that traditionally comes from fish.
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David Tribe on 7 December 2010
From GMO Pundit.
GM wheat — step by step
Agrifood Awareness Australia.
Media Release Dec 8th 2010
International grains industry leaders are building-up their consideration of the market and trade requirements that will underpin the commercialisation of GM wheat.
In parallel to the global R&D program to deliver valued GM wheat varieties — including significant work in Australia — the grains industry’s supply chain-wide assessment process is underway.
A key step is the release at this week’s International Grains Forum in Perth, WA, of the document `GM wheat — a seven to ten year program of consultation and collaboration’, prepared by Agrifood Awareness Australia Executive Director, Paula Fitzgerald.
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David Tribe on 2 December 2010
From GMO Pundit.
We need to alert you all to the fact that a poll on GM crop trials in South Australia is open on the Stock and Land website at the moment. See the right side bar on http://stage.sj.farmonline.com.au/news/state/grains-and-cropping/general/gm-trials-extended/2013833.aspx
I encourage you all to vote and also to encourage any like minded colleagues to vote as well. The poll question is do you support the GM crop trials is South Australia and currently the answers are 21.4% yes 78.6% no.
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David Tribe on 5 November 2010
From GMO Pundit.
Australian government funded TV program The 7.30 Report has just run an item about a purportedly new risk in GM food. To discuss this risk, the program featured an abundance of voices from antitechnology organisations but gave no effective scrutiny of their scientific arguments or credentials.
The object of The 7.30 Report discussion was a the new variety of corn bred by cross pollinating different existing corn varieties so that it contains eight different agriculturally advantageous traits. This is the so-called SmartStax corn. This contains six different protections against insect damage and two different versions of herbicide tolerance.
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David Tribe on 7 July 2010
From GMO Pundit.
Tasmania fumes over media misconduct – On Line Opinion – 7/7/2010
Scaremongering on shoddy ABC TV program Australian Story about supposedly “GM trees” has been dissected at On-line opinion. A few snippets from Online Opinion are given below
Tasmania fumes over media misconduct
Mark Pointer
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