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Genetic Engineering and the Privatization of Seeds

16 events in this timeline

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  1. 1992-05-26 Shortly after May 26, 1992: FDA Scientist Angry about Industry-Friendly Decision Not to Regulate Genetically Engineered Foods
  2. 2000-01-24 January 24-29, 2000: US Oppose Inclusion of GMOs in Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  3. 2005-12-29 December 29, 2005: USDA Inspector General Blasts USDA for Poor Oversight of Field Trials for Experimental GM Crops
  4. 2006-01-01 January 1, 2006-August 26, 2006: Thousands of Indian Farmers Commit Suicide
  5. 2006-08-10 August 10, 2006: Judge Rules against USDA for Permitting Biotech Firms to Grow Experimental Drug-Producing Crops in Hawaii
  6. 2006-08-15 August 15, 2006: Monsanto to Buy Delta & Pine Land Company
  7. 2006-08-18 August 18, 2006: US Announces 2005 US Rice Harvest Contaminated with GM Rice
  8. 2006-10-09 October 9, 2006: Mexico Denies Permits to Biotechs to Plant GE Corn in Northern States
  9. 2005: Indian Planters of Bt Cotton Incur Higher Costs than Growers of non-Bt Cotton
  10. September 2002: Iowa Corn Contaminated with Genes from ‘Pharma-Crops’
  11. Summer 1997: Monsanto Scientist Reveals that Abnormal Unintended Proteins are Present in Company’s Roundup Ready Cotton
  12. Summer 1997: Monsanto Employee Tries to Blow Whistle on Company for Feeding Experimental GM Cotton to Cattle
  13. 1996: Monsanto Vice President Tells Enthused and Idealistic Employee ‘We Are Here to Make Money’
  14. 1947: Eminent Immunologist Urges Australian Government to Develop Biological Weapons
  15. February 2006-March 2006: Sheep Die after Grazing on Bt Cotton Plants
  16. October 2002: Soybeans Accidently Mixed with Medicine-Producing GM Corn