Sentence examples for gm industry from inspiring English sources

"The GM industry appears to be expanding its grasp over traditional subsistence crops which had, until recently, been disregarded," it said.

This Iowa-set story is a downbeat affair demonstrating that today's rural life is in thrall to corporate values and the pressures of the GM industry.

Last week, on the Radio 4 programme Street Science, a publicist for the GM industry made a number of claims about what GM crops can do.

The GM industry, which helped fund the report, together with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Health Organisation and the British and US governments, abandoned talks last year after heated debate.

"This will potentially be the world's first genetically modified fish available for human consumption and it's clear the GM industry wants to get other animal products approved after this," said Mark Butler, campaigner at the Ecology Action Centre, which is bringing the case alongside the Living Oceans Society.

The summary of the meeting, written by the GM industry body the Agricultural Biotechnology Council ABCC), shows there are plans to spend more taxpayers' money on research and development for GM crops, to promote GM crops in developing countries and to remove regulatory and political barriers.

That system made GM the industry leader and enormously profitable.

Also in the satellite industry, General Motors' gm Hughes Electronics gmh said it collected a $154 million settlement in a dispute over satellite technology patents.

The concept of substantial equivalence [23] is used by regulators and industry scientists to validate GM-crop quality.

This is despite the fact that the variety of GM maize usedin this study was judged by industry and regulators as being substantially equivalent tothe corresponding non-GM closest isogenic line [3, 30].

The proposed amendments to GM policy will lead to a segregation policy with pro-GM and anti-GM states taking sides.