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• 12/27 - Update on Battle Against GE Fish in the USA
• 12/17- Yellow Bean Patent Owner Sues 16 Farmers and Processors in US
• 12/11- Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Seed Patenting
• 11/29- US Gov't Sends its Biotech Bullies to Croatia
• 11/27 - First Human Embyro Cloned
• 11/20- Is Unregulated GE Research on Vaccines & Disease A Public Health Threat
• 11/19- India to Destroy Illegal Gene-Altered Cotton Crops
• 11/16- New Patent Agreement a Setback for Biotech Companies
• 11/1 - Key US Senator Backs Farmers Seed Rights & Liability for Genetic Polluters
• 10/16- EPA Reregisters Bt Frankencorn Despite Widespread Criticism
• 10/19- INDIA--Illegal GE Cotton Crop Will Be Destroyed
• 10/2- EPA Continues to Be a Cheerleader for USA Frankencrops
• 10/1- US Refusal to Sign Biowar Treaty Threatens World Security
• 9/10- Monarch Butterfly/GE Crops Controversy Still Simmering
• 9/9- New Contraceptive Frankencorn Being Tested
• 9/7- Dissent Inside the EPA Over Lack of Regulation of Bt Crops
• 9/7- "Frankendrugs" with Human Genes Spliced into California Rice Field
• - Zapatistas Confront the Gene Pirates in Chiapas
• 8/12- Rapeseed Frankencrops in Canada Breed Superweeds
• 8/9- Study Shows GE Frankenweeds Will Persist for Generations
• 8/3- USDA Says Yes to the Terminator Technology
• 8/1- House Backs Ban on Human Cloning
• 7/25- Syngenta Goes Forward on Terminator Genev
• 7/24- Asia Groups Denounce UN Propaganda on Behalf of Biotech Industry
• 7/23- Frankentrees Engineers Confronted by Protesters in Washington
• 7/16- Company Wants to Sell Untested Milk From Cloned Cows
• 6/24- Biotech Perverts -Get Out of Our Genes
• 6/23- GM Flax Seed Yanked Off Canadian Market - Rounded Up, Crushed
• 6/15- Field Testing of New GE Crops Slows in the USA
• 6/15- Debate in Hawaii over GE Crops
• 6/14- Genetic Engineers Flex Their Muscles in Washington
• 6/11- Maine Passes Bill Regulating GE Seeds
• 6/5- FDA Says Hold Off on Eating Cloned Animals
• 6/4- Altering Genes-A Mortal Threat to the Ecosystem?
• 6/3- Gene-Altered Pigs on the Dinner Table?
• 5/17- Debate Rises Over Cloning Farm Animals
• - Fish Industry Fears Frankenfish Backlash
• 5/24- Efforts to Ban Human Cloning May Not Hold Up
• 5/23- Eco-Guerrillas Strike Against Frankentrees
• 5/20- Horror at 'Three Parent Foetus' Gene Disorders
• 5/19- Washington Post Worried About Frankenfish
• 5/17- Scientists Warn of GE Biowar
• 5/9- NYT on Opposition to Frankenfish
• 5/9- US Activists File Legal Petition Against GE Fish
• 5/4- Gene-Altered Babies Born in USA
• 4/25- Scientists Ready to Release Gene-Altered Insects in Cotton Fields
• 4/12-Maryland Bans Genetically Modified Fish
• 4/2- Cloned calves die at California schools
• - Genetically Engineered Humans-- Part 2
• 3/27 - Greenpeace Blockades Frankenfish Facility in Canada
• 3/15- Genetically Engineering Humans--from Rachel's Part One
• 3/23 - Protesters Destroy GE Trees in Oregon
• 3,15 - The First Genetically Modified Insects are Scheduled for Release
• 2,12 - - Human Gene Map Shows How Little the Gene Engineers Know
• 2,9 - Here Come the Genetically Engineered Insects
• 1,30 - US Citizens Movement Against Human Cloning
• Jan - Glowing Monkey
• - Gene Engineers Create Monster Doomsday Virus

• Dec - Xenotransplantation: The Next Biotech Disaster?
• Nov - The Race to Buy Life
• 10,26 - Update on Genetic Engineering Experiments on Animals
• 10,8 - Gene Engineers Grow Pig Embryos with Human Genes
• 10,8- Son of Terminator: Novartis' New "Traitor" Seed Patent Sows Controversy
• 9,28-GE Cotton in Tampons & Bandages Could Give Rise to Untreatable Gonorrhoea
• 9,21-Cruel Gene Experiments on Monkeys Cause Scandal in the UK
• 9,18-US Scientists Call for Ban on Genetically Engineering Humans
• 9,18 - The Next Sports Scandal: Genetically Engineered Olympic Athletes?
• 8,13 - Dolly Cloners Abandon GE Organ Transplant Research Fearing Deadly Viruses
• 7,23 - Scientists Discover Gene-Altered Animal Organs Could Set off Deadly Viruses in Humans
• 8,3 - Here Come the Frankentrees!
• 7,25 - Minneapolis Police Attack Protestors at Animal Genetics Conference
• 7,24 - GE Spider Viruses--A New Deadly Threat to Butterflies & Humans?
• 7,25 - Eco-Saboteurs Chop Down Genetically Engineered Trees in Maine
• 7,7 - Activists Sound the Alarm on GE Grass for Lawns & Golf Courses
• July 6, 2000: Pay dirt from the human genome: Rachel's #702
• 7,2 - Dolly firm put woman's gene into sheep
• 6,18 - Gene Engineers Have Second Thoughts on Cloning
• 5,9 - The Politics of Genetically Engineered Humans
• May - Environmentalists Unite to Stop GE Frankentrees
• Feb/Mar - The Terminator Gene is Still on Fast Track
• Jan - Biotechnology & Biosafety: Battle Royale of the 21st Century

• 12,15 - Rush to Patent Genes is Hampering Medical Research
• 11,4 - NYT Exposes Unreported Deaths in Genetic Engineering "Gene Therapy" Experiments on Humans
• 8,24 - Genetically Engineered Fish Stir Controversy
• 7,28 - The US Patent System Legalizes Theft and Biopiracy--Vandana Shiva
• 6,17 - US Human/Chimpanzee Life Form Patent Challenge by Jeremy Rifkin & Stuart Newman Will Now Go to the Federal Courts
• 3,26 - NGOs Gain Victory in Yellowstone Park Biopiracy Case
• 3,29 - RAFI Global Action Alert on Terminator & Traitor Seeds
• 3,31 - Amazon Tribe Protests at US Patent Office in Washington over "Biopiracy" Theft of Traditional Sacred Drug
• 12,08 - Human Cloning on the Horizon
• 7,26 - In Big Advance in Cloning, Biologists Create 50 Mice
• 7-27-98 - Biotech Bodies

• 12, 02 Human Clones are coming!
• 10, 17 - The Genetics Forum calls for ban on Xenotransplantation
• 10, 12 - Cosmetic "Gene Therapy"
• 11, 13 - Biopiracy in Yellowstone Park
• 11, 3 - Experts say pig transplants no problem for Muslims
• Oct 19- Headless frog opens way for human organ factory
• July 27, '97 'Giant' lambs put future of cloning in doubt (London Sunday Times)
• July 24, '97 Cloned lambs with human genes (Reuter)
• July 16, '97 Greenpeace Deplores EP Vote On Bio Patent Directive Leverage Buyout Of Nature - Ethics Under Corporate Control?
• July 7, '97 EU faces another showdown over biotech patents (Reuters World Report) Also, Win patents
• June 30, '97 Letter To Secretary Albright (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)
• June 13, '97 Researchers grew a human ear on back of mouse. services. (AP)
• June 9, '97 Global religious cult offers cloning services. (Reuter)
• June 4, '97 Panel Backs Some Human Clone Work (Washington Post)
• May 28, 1997 Transgenesis of Fish Using Human Growth Gene (Intellectual Property & Biodiversity News)
• Apr 27, 1997 Saddam seeks immortality through clones (UPI)
• March 18, 1997 Genetic Roulette Failures associated with genetic engineering. (Chicago Tribune)
• Genetic Privacy Bills Flood State Legislatures
• Jan 13, 1995 Clinton Administration Promises to Support Biotech

• Feb - Crisis as Biotech Lies Surface
• Feb '02- Unraveling the DNA Myth
  2001
  
• Nov- Technotopia? By Andrew Kimbrell
• 11/2- Antibiotic Marker Gene in GE Cotton May Harm Tuberculosis Patients
• - Why Bt Cotton Should Be Banned
• Sept- Frankencrops Containing Drugs & Industrial Chemicals-Background Paper
• 7/6- Human cloning will never be safe
• 6/7- US Scientific Body Warns of Ecological Hazards of GE Crops
• Jan/Feb 2001- RAFI's Annual Update on Terminator and Traitor Technology
• Thousands of Diabetics Report Adverse Effects from GE Insulin
• 2000 - Gene Engineers Promote Eugenics & Designer Babies
• Aug 20, 1995 The Price of Biotech (Seattle Times)
• Human Genome Project Patent Pending:The Race To Own Human DNA (Seattle Times)
• CLONING SHEEP Converting Life Forms Into Corporate Property. (People's Tribune)
• Patenting Plants Information About Intellectual Property Rights No.3 (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)
• Genetics research The Cruelty Issues in Animal Experimentation. (Animal Aid)

• Alert!!! Tell the EPA to Stop Allowing Bt Crops to Be Grown in the USA act now
• Protests June 24-25 Anti-GE Groups Expect Thousands for San Diego
• June 12, '97 Info on Patents for Directive Debate World Court, and Ordre. (RAFI -- Rural Advancement Foundation International)