Colin Bettles
Australian politician compares anti-GMO activists to ISIS
WA [West Australia] Upper House Liberal member and former grains farmer Jim Chown says anti-Genetically Modified (GM) crop activists are ...
‘Solution for problem that doesn’t exist’? Australian politicians considering compensation fund to cover ‘contamination’ from GMO crops
THE lawyer who spearheaded Kojonup farmer Mike Baxter’s legal defence in the landmark legal test case over Genetically Modified (GM) ...
Viewpoint: Restrictions on GMOs a ‘catastrophe’ for Australian farmers
Onerous and expensive regulations have denied farmers’ access to new and existing Genetically Modified (GM) crop varieties and reduced their ...
Food Evolution movie changing people’s minds about GMOs in Australia
Food for thought and central to [Food Evolution’s] central theme of changing peoples’ minds and choosing facts over emotional logic ...
Bayer board member says GMOs have ‘lost the debate in Europe’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer board member Kemal Malik ...
Australia’s Green party may moderate opposition to GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australian Greens leader Richard ...
Will Greenpeace lose tax-free donation status in Australia as result of GMO wheat field vandalism?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s eligibility ...
Western Australia expected to lift restrictions on new GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Legislation to repeal the Genetically ...
Australian organic industry trying to bully GMOs out of existence with zero tolerance contamination policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Visiting US journalist Jon Entine ...
Organic farmer, facing $800,00 liability, ponders appeal after losing Australia “contamination” case
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. TWO out of three ...
Australian senators support GMOs as environmentally friendly, scientifically sound
Australian Federal Senators have backed a motion supporting genetically modified (GM) crops for being an environmentally friendly farming technology supported by ...
Greenpeace Australia’s tax status challenged after unlawful destruction of GM wheat trial
Greenpeace's unlawful protest and destruction of Genetically Modified (GM) crop trials at CSIRO facilities in Canberra in 2011 are a key ...
‘Contamination insurance’ for Australian non-GMO farmers?
Western Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert is calling for a national “contamination insurance scheme” to help protect farmers who choose not ...
Urban consumers should pay more for lower-yielding non-GMO crops
Washington Farm Bureau first vice president Aaron Golladay lives on a family run farming operation in central Washington State, near ...
Australian organic farmer appeals judgement denying compensation for GMO “contamination”
Two appeal hearings in the Marsh v Baxter case have been scheduled from March 23 to 25 in the Court of ...
Anti-GMO policies stifling response to Australia’s growing farm pest problem
South Australian Liberal Senator Sean Edwards says an outbreak of beet western yellow virus has “blindsided” croppers in his home State ...
Aussie organic farmer who lost GMO ‘contamination’ case faces $800,000 in court costs
Organic farmer Steve Marsh and his wife Sue could be forced to pay almost $804,000 in court costs after suffering ...
Western Australian farmer hailed hero for resisting ‘bullying’ over GM ‘contamination’
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter has been described as a modern day hero who should be hailed for resisting “the ...
Australian organic farmer to appeal lost landmark GM crop ‘contamination’ case
Organic Kojonup farmer Steve Marsh and his wife Sue will appeal the Western Australia Supreme Court’s decision in the high ...
Who’s who? ‘David and Goliath’ roles mixed up in West Australian Marsh v Baxter case
In West Australia's landmark GMO battle, Steve Marsh's supporters portrayed him as David, the lone organic farmer about to lose ...
War in South Australia over future of GMO trials
South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell’s staunch opposition to genetically modified (GM) crop biotechnology has raised fears multi-million dollar research ...
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter’s win a big step forward for co-existence between organic, GM crops
The Western Australia Supreme Court’s decision to award Kojonup GM canola farmer Michael Baxter victory over his organic farming neighbour ...
Australia: Verdict due in landmark legal battle over GM “contamination” of organic farms
Justice Kenneth James Martin is set to hand down a verdict this Wednesday - 2pm Perth time - in the ...
Federal agriculture minister backs use of GM technology in Australia
Federal Agriculture Barnaby Joyce has weighed into the controversy over South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell’s appearance at an anti-Monsanto ...
Critics challenge South Australian Agriculture Minister’s anti-GMO stance
Critics have challenged South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell to “put up or shut up” on the science and safety ...
GM and organics can coexist
The biggest farming group in the US has backed moves to promote coexistence between organic and biotech farmers. With a ...
First day testimony in landmark Western Australia organic-GMO row court case
In the first day of testimony in an alleged genetic modification "contamination" case that has garnered world-wide attention, an Australian ...
U.K. envoy champions GM crops
The following is an excerpt. Community attitudes towards cropping biotechnology are shifting in the European region, where resistance has been ...
