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Bill Gates reveals that the debate and conflict over GM foods are threatening the efforts of The Gates Foundation in its attempt to end world hunger. ‘An “ideological wedge” threatens his global effort to help farmers.’ Over the recent years, The Gates Foundation has been ‘helping alleviate hunger and poverty by giving small farmers [...]

The ban in Germany of GM maize from Monsanto is another defeat for the European Commission which campaigns for the lifting of all bans on MON810 in the EU. After Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, and Luxembourg, Germany announced on April 14 that it would suspend cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically-modified maize called MON810. Minister of Agriculture [...]

It is a blow on the pro-GMO position of the European Commission. The European Union member countries rejected, on Monday March 2 in Brussels, the lifting of the prohibition on the culture of genetically modified corn (MON810) by the American firm Monsanto, being forced in Austria and Hungary. The vote occurred just as EC executives are at the point [...]