Polarized Web Sources, Pro- and Anti-GM

Industry and Industry-Sponsored

Anti-GM Organizations
Monsanto. St. Louis-based firm that dominates the agricultural biotechnology industry. Greenpeace's GM site. This large international organization, particularly strong in Europe, is flatly opposed to crop genetic modification.
Monsanto-India. Website dedicated to Monsanto's India operation. ETC Group (formerly RAFI). Small but highly influential NGO mainly concerned with issues of biodiversity, intellectual property rights, and corporate control of agriculture.
Council for Biotechnology Information. Media consortium formed by top 7 biotechnology firms. Contains links to Monsanto's partners in this venture. Vandana Shiva. Shiva's Delhi-based foundation opposes "masculine," corporate-dominated technological intrusions into subsistence economies.
AgBioWorld Foundation An example of an industry-supported nonprofit organization that promotes biotechnology largely through emphasizing benefits to less developed countries. Jeremy Rifkin. Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation for Economic Trends focuses on use of governmental mechanisms to impede genetic engineering.
Intl. Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications Industry-supported organization promoting transfer of biotechnologies to developing countries. Food First. California-based institute working against crop genetioc engineering and other aspects of corporate-controlled agriculture; includes work by Peter Rosset.

Negative Campaigning (attack sites)
Junkscience.com

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Monsanto Sucks

Monsatan

Leaders in LDC-Oriented Biotechnology
CGIAR The umbrella group for the 16 international centers devoted to improving agriculture in less developed countries. The centers are non-profit and traditionally non-commercial, but as they become increasingly involved in biotechnology research their links with industry are expanding.

Danforth Plant Science Center. This St. Louis-based biotechnology research center is non-profit, but its hybrid support base includes four universities, the Mo. Botanical Garden, and Monsanto. It houses ILTAB (http://www.danforthcenter.org/iltab/) which is discussed in the article text.

CAMBIA Australia-based non-profit laboratory focused on applications of biotechnology to sustainable agriculture. Explicitly wary of corporate control of technology, but gains some funding from commercial licenses and partnerships, as well as from philanthropy and research grants).

Independent Information Sources
Ag Biotech Infonet A vast archive of science, news and opinion on crop biotechnology. Run by Charles Benbrook, former director of the National Academy of Science's Board on Agriculture, whose own research has tended to be critical, but it aims at even-handed content.

India Information Sources
Ministry of Finance (includes Economic Surveys)

Ministry of Agriculture & Co-operation

Department of Biotechnology