Fwd: GE News: EU article, US Organic, non-GE sources (fwd)

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Fri, 01 May 1998 07:22:38 -0700

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>Reply-to: bd-l@biodynamics.com
>Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:40:44 -0500
>To: bd-l@biodynamics.com
>From: Michael Roboz <mroboz@infoserve.net> (by way of BIODYNAMIC MAIL LIST)
>Subject: GE News: EU article, US Organic, non-GE sources (fwd)
>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:47:51 -0500
>From: Richard Wolfson <rwolfson@concentric.net>
>To: info@natural-law.ca
>Subject: GE News: EU article, US Organic, non-GE sources
>
>PLANS TO REFORM EU GENE LAW DRAW HEAVY CRITICISM
>
>       BRUSSELS, April 30, 1998 Reuters [WS] via NewsEdge Corporation :
>Plans to reform European Union procedures for authorising
>genetically-engineered crops were attacked from all sides on Wednesday,
>with industry calling them too strict and the European Parliament saying
>they did not go far enough.
>
>       Austria, which has banned an insect-resistant gene maize produced by
>Swiss biotech firm Novartis in defiance of an EU decision to approve it,
>went even further than the EU parliament and launched an outright attack on
>gene crops.
>
>      Last November the European Commission proposed changes to the law to
>make it clearer and more efficient and, at the same time, restore public
>confidence in the safety of genetically-altered crops and foodstuffs made
>from them. The Commission's reforms, which need the support of EU
>governments and Euro-MPs to become law, will oblige all EU states to follow
>standard risk assessment procedures and consult consumers and scientists
>more widely before approving genetically-modified (GMO) crops. The plans
>will also ensure potentially risky products are monitored continuously once
>they have been approved and all products reassessed after seven years.
>
>..................................
>
>APRIL 30, 19:23 EDT
>
>USDA Urged To Scrap Organic Rules
>
>By CURT ANDERSON AP Farm Writer
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pro-organic groups urged the Agriculture Department to
>scrap its proposed rules on organic foods, which generated more than
>150,000 overwhelmingly negative comments from
>across the nation.
>
>Thursday marked the end of the public's chance to comment on the rules.
>Major reasons that opposition arose were that the department left open the
>possibilities that organic food could be sold even if
>genetically engineered, irradiated to kill bacteria or grown with sewage
>sludge as fertilizer.
>
>``This is by far the worst beating that any federal agency has taken on a
>proposed rule,'' said Roger Blobaum, a Washington agricultural consultant
>who has worked for years on organic food questions.
>
>........................................
>
>Subject: GE - List of GM free soya suppliers
>
>Below is a list I recently received of sources of non-GM crops in the US,
>Canada, Netherlands and the UK
>
>(Most are organic, so automatically GE free)
>
>LIST OF COMPANIES IN USA PRODUCING ORGANICALLY GROWN SOYBEANS
>International dialling code: 001
>
>Agro-Consulting and Trading
>Suite 2037, 1717 North Bayshore Drive, Miami FL 33132
>Tel:305/371.79.50 Fax: 305/371.79.50
>
>American Health and Nutrition, 508 Waymarket Drive, Ann Arbor MI 48103
>Tel: 313/994.74.00 Fax: 313/994.41.20
>
>Arrowhead Mills Inc, 110 S. Lawton, PO Box 2059, Hereford TX 79045
>Tel: 806/364.07.30 Fax: 806/364.82.42
>
>Behm Seed Company, 11730 30th Avenue, Atwater MN 56209
>Tel: 320/974.30.03 Fax: 320/974.36.18
>
>Blue Horizon 851 Burlway Road, Burlingame, CA 94010
>Tel: 415/340.80.74
>
>Clarkson Grain Co Box 80320, East South St, Cerro Gordo IL 61818
>Tel: 217/763.28.61 Fax: 217/763/21.11
>
>Dae Han Inc 737 SE Alder Street, PO Box 14242, Portland OR 97214-2251
>
>Tel: 503/233.86.38 Fax: 503/233.86.38
>
>Dennis Strayer & Associates, 302 Beverly Boulevard, Hudson, Iowa 50643
>Tel: 319/988.41.87 Fax: 319/988.39.22
>
>Eden Foods Inc, 701 Tecumseh Road, Clinton MI 49236
>Tel: 517/456.74.24 Fax: 517/456.70.25
>
>Ener-G Foods 5960 1 St Avenue South, PO Box 84487, Seattle WA 98124
>Tel: 206/767.66.60 Fax: 206/764.33.98
>
>Extra-Pro Feeds, Rt. 1, Box 454, Dent, MN 56528
>Tel: 218/346.52.00 Fax: 218/342.30.22
>
>Farmsoy Company, 96C The FarmSummertown TN 38483
>Tel: 615/964.74.11
>
>Joan Harriman 1621 Heather Ridge, Glendale CA 91207
>Tel: 818/240.17.94 Fax: 818/507.52.10
>
>Lee Seed Company RR 1, PO Box 14, Inwood IA 51250
>Tel: 712/753.44.03Fax: 712/553.45.43
>
>Living Farms 187 4th Street, PO Box 1127, Tracy MN 56175
>Tel: 507/629.44.31 Fax: 507/629.42.53
>
>Logan Farms RD 2, Fort Plain NY 13339
>Tel: 518/993.22.79 Fax: 518/993.47.47
>
>Lone Pine Enterprises Box 416, Carlisle AR 72024
>Tel: 501/552.32.17
>
>MBS Inc 225 West 1st Street, PO Box 128, Story City IA 50248
>Tel: 515/733.52.74 Fax: 515/733.47.88
>
>Mercantile Food Company PO Box 55, Philmont NY 12565-0826
>Tel: 518/672.01.90 Fax: 518/672.01.98
>
>Minn-Kota AG Products Box 175BreckenridgeMN 56520
>Tel: 218/643.61.30Fax: 218/643.85.42
>
>Natural Choice Foods, Inc. Route 1, Box 454Dent, MN 56528
>Tel: 218/346.52.00 Fax: 218/346.90.51
>
>Natural Products 798 Highway 6, Grinnell, IA, 50112
>Tel: 515/236.08.52 Fax: 515/236.48.35
>
>Nichii Company of America 21 Mycal Drive, Jefferson IA 50129
>Tel: 515/386.21.00 Fax: 515/386.32.87
>
>North Country Seed P O Box 548,102 Main Street, Ormsby, MN 56162
>Tel: 517/736.20.04 Fax: 517/736.84.05
>
>Omega Nutrition USA 6505 Aldrich Road, Bellingham WA 98226
>Tel: 360/384.12.38 Fax: 360/384.07.00
>
>P.A.T.M Company 175 Coolidge, Swan IA 50252
>Tel: 515/848.37.60 Fax: 515/848.37.60
>
>Pacific Soybean & Grain Suite 300, One Sutter Street, San Francisco
>CA 94104
>Tel: 415/433.08.67 Fax: 415/433.94.94
>
>Pattison Brothers 701 King Street, PO Box 670, FayetteIA 52142
>Tel: 319/425.33.65 Fax: 319/425.45.66
>
>Pioneer Hi Bred Intl 7100 Northwest 62nd Avenue, Johnston IA 50131
>Tel: 515/254.27.37 Fax: 515/254.27.44
>
>Pro-Seed 236 Sugar Street, P O Box 55, Blissfield, Michigan 49228
>
>Tel: 517/486.35.20 Fax: 517/486.26.31
>
>Prosource Inc 601 Third Avenue West, PO Box 1058AlexandriaMN 56308
>Tel: 612/763.24.70 Fax: 612/763.79.96
>
>Schulz Seed Co.>only seed P O Box 211, Delterich IL 62424
>Tel: 217/925.52.12 Fax: 217/925.52.10
>
>Seymour Organic Foods 205 S Main Street, PO Box 190 SeymourIL 61875
>Tel: 217/687.48.10 Fax: 312/687.48.30
>
>Shuster Certified Seeds 1833 Route 89, Seneca Falls NY 13148
>Tel: 315/568.93.37 Fax: 315/568.29.78
>
>Sinner Bros PO Box 549, Casselton, ND 58012
>Tel: 701/347.49.00 Fax: 701/347.44.62
>
>SK Food International PO Box 1236, Wahpeton ND 58075
>Tel: 701/642.39.29 Fax: 701/642.41.02
>
>SNO Pac Foods 21 S Pine Street, Caledonia MN 55921
>Tel: 507/724.52.81 Fax: 507/724.52.85
>
>Specialty Export Products 105 East Main, P O Box 153, Greenfield, TN
>38230
>Tel: 901/235.21.24 Fax: 901/235.21.43
>
>Strayer Seed Farms 109 N. Main Street, Clarksville, IA 50619
>Tel: 319/988.41.87 Fax: 319/988.39.22
>
>v.r.b. Enterprises, 1411 Tasso Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
>Tel: 650/325.19.91 Fax: 415/327.99.27
>
>Welter's Premium Popcorn
>1226 120th Street, RRI Box 93, Ottosen, IA 50570
>Tel: 515/379.14.63
>-------------------------------
>
>[they do not know if any of the soya below is organic also]
>
>GM FREE SOYA - CANADA
>International dialling code: 001
>
>Manna International, 128 March St., Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6A 223
>
>Tel: 705/946.26.62 Fax: 705/256.65.40
>
>Ontario Soybean Growers' Marketing Board (Contact: Kim Cooper - Marketing
>Co-ordinator)
>Box 1199, 180 Riverview Drive, Chatham, Ontario, N7M 5L8
>Tel: 519 532 7730   Fax: 519 352 8983
>
>Semences Gripon 166 Grande Ligne, St-Urbain (Quebec) JOS1YO
>Tel: 514/427.38.31    Fax: 514/427.20.67
>
>W. G. Thompson & Sons Ltd, 122 George Street, Box 250, Blenheim,
>Ontario NOP 1AO
>Tel: 519/676.54.11 Fax: 519/676.31.85
>
>Wilbur-Ellis Company of Canada Ltd
>Tel: 519/944.81.88 Fax; 519/944.45.90
>
>
>GM FREE SOYA - NETHERLANDS
>
>Semences Prograin Inc. Larive Zeist
>Tel: 313/069.33.221, (514/469.57.44) Fax: 313/069.32.908, (514/469.45.47)
>
>
>GM FREE SOYA - UNITED KINGDOM
>
>Soya International Ltd Unit 4, Guinness Road, Trafford Park, Manchester
>M17 1SD
>Tel: 0161 872 0549, Fax: 0161 872 6776,   E-mail: soyaint@aol.com
>
>
>This list has been provided in good faith but no guarantees can be given
>that every company listed can supply non-GM soya on demand. It is up to
>those who wish to purchase such material to make enquiries before placing
>an order.
>
>_________________________________________________________
>Richard Wolfson, PhD
>Consumer Right to Know Campaign,
>for Mandatory Labelling and Long-term
>Testing of all Genetically Engineered Foods,
>500 Wilbrod Street
>Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 6N2
>tel. 613-565-8517 fax. 613-565-1596
>email: rwolfson@concentric.net
>
>Our website,
<http://www.natural-law.ca/genetic/geindex.html>http://www.natural-law.ca/ge
netic/geindex.html
>contains more information on genetic engineering as well as
>previous genetic engineering news items
>Subscription fee to genetic engineering news is $35 for 12 months
>See website for details.
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>
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