genetically modified organisms in agriculture

• Canada And Europe To Launch Free Trade Negotiations

... in controversial areas such as agriculture, geographical indications and the use of geneticallly modified organisms and hormones in certain agrifood product...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English

• Agriculture in the Canada-EU economic and trade agreement.

... labour in production, the use of genetically modified organisms, whether crops were produced in...

• International Journal
• Vol. 66 Nbr. 3, June 2011

• The other global crisis: combating the food and humanitarian crisis.

... 2009, overall productivity growth in agriculture is simply too low to cope with the increase in dem..., the potential contribution of genetically modified foods to ensuring food security is large ... all the techniques that use living organisms or substances from organisms to produce or alter a...

• International Journal
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 2, March 2009

• Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), [2002] 4 S.C.R. 45, 2002 SCC 76, 2002 SCC 76 (2002)

... forms - College seeking to patent genetically altered mouse for cancer research - Whether "inven...Patentable micro-organisms are formed in such large numbers that any measurab... mouse that has been genetically modified to be susceptible to HIV infection. The Commission... techniques that are almost as old as agriculture itself was inventive within the scope of the Act (...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Media constructions of responsibility for the production and mitigation of environmental harms: the case of mercury-contaminated fish.

...Methylmercury is ingested by small organisms and fish, which are then consumed by larger predat.... Genetically modified food, which is intertwined with numerous .... Walters, Reece 2006 Crime, bio-agriculture and the exploitation of hunger. British Journal of...

• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Vol. 52 Nbr. 4, July 2010

• Monsanto Into Canola

... holds a strong position in Manitoba agriculture and the broader economy. According to Barry Todd, ... because of that market's exclusion of genetically modified organisms. martin.cash@freepress.mb.ca. M...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• November 25, 2010

• Food Fights: Canadian regulators are under pressure to face the uncertainties of genetically modified food.

...In March 2001, Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief admitted that although Star... potential environmental effects of GM organisms? How can we test for potential harms, and what sta...

• Alternatives Journal
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 1, January 2002

• Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, [2004] 1 S.C.R. 902, 2004 SCC 34, 2004 SCC 34 (2004)

... to plants - Patent claims disclosing genetically modified genes and cells which, when inserted into... denies the realities of modern agriculture. 93 Inventions in the field of agriculture may giv...89; patents apply to:. . . . all micro-organisms, yeasts, moulds, fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes, u...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Science in the courtroom: the mouse that roared.

... does not understand exactly what was modified and what the consequences of unleashing such organ... reproduction is to build into the organisms a so-called "suicide gene" so that at a certain po..., but then Monsanto came along with a genetically-modified soy bean containing a suicide gene and cr... and animal materials for food and agriculture, developments in telecommunications, privacy conce...

• University of New Brunswick Law Journal
• Nbr. 56, January 2007

• Prince Edward Island.

...Neil LeClair, the former Minister of Agriculture, will now serve as the Minister of Fisheries, Aqua... in establishing a province-wide GMO (genetically-modified organisms)-free zone for canola, and reco...

• Canadian Parliamentary Review
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 1, March 2009