genetically modified soybean

The amount of genetically modified soybeans, cotton and corn on the market is significant.

In 1996, genetically modified soybeans were made commercially available.

"The commercial planting of genetically modified soybeans in Brazil is not permitted," he wrote.

If, for example, genetically modified soybeans had been used in cattle feed instead of cattle remains, people would not have died.

Compared with its genetically modified soybean and corn, alfalfa is not yet a big product for Monsanto.

A Romanian farmer shows genetically modified soybeans in the village of Varasti.

Detailed labeling and testing required for export shipments will eat into the improved margins of those planting genetically modified soybeans.

"Genetically Modified Soybean."

Brazil's federal district court voted to uphold a cautionary ban on the sale of Monsanto's genetically modified soybeans until an environmental impact study can be completed.

There is no reason that the French shouldn't love Eminem and Nikes but also hate genetically modified soybeans and the death penalty.

On Jan. 1 the Government gave the green light to genetically modified soybeans, cotton, corn, summer squash, potatoes, canola oil, radicchio, papayas and tomatoes.

He postponed the paving of a major Amazon highway and supported a "bio-security plan" to control the growth and sale of genetically modified soybeans.

Monsanto has genetically modified soybeans and other crop plants to create "Roundup Ready" strains that are not affected by Roundup.

But then more and more farmers began planting genetically modified soybeans smuggled from Argentina, and Mr. Pippi's sales took off.

Soybeans are one of the "biotech food" crops that have been genetically modified, and genetically modified soybeans are being used in an increasing number of products.

"What needs to be made clear is that the government is going to give judicial guarantees to the planting of genetically modified soybeans, no matter what," Mr. Rodrigues said.

Genetically modified soybean is a soybean (Glycine max) that has had DNA introduced into it in a way other than the combination of male and female gametes.

The hottest spark to ignite the discontent that had simmered for months was Mr. da Silva's decision in September to approve the planting of genetically modified soybeans.

The Regional Federal Court in Brazil upheld an injunction that blocks Monsanto from selling genetically modified soybeans in the country until a comprehensive environmental impact study can be completed.

That leaves a few families living amid vast tracts of genetically modified soybeans and corn, with here and there a hog confinement site or a cattle feedlot to break the monotony.

Farmers here, however, say those costs are marginal compared with the savings on herbicides and in time, because the fields of genetically modified soybeans are free of weeds and easier to harvest.

The genetically modified soybean was tested on people known to be allergic to Brazil nuts, and they had an allergic reaction to the modified soybeans but not to the unmodified soybeans.

Just Monday, the commission approved a new rule requiring labels on food if it contains 1 percent or more genetically modified soybean or corn - most of it presumably imported from the United States.

Genetically modified soybeans carried herbicide-tolerant traits only, but maize and cotton carried both herbicide tolerance and insect protection traits (the latter largely the Bacillus thuringiensis Bt insecticidal protein).

Last year the French agricultural activist José Bové stole the show when he was arrested for ripping genetically modified soybeans out of the ground at a nearby agricultural laboratory operated by Monsanto.