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Genetics resources

The Corporate Watch genetics project looks at the biotech companies and their role in promoting the technology.

The essential guides to companies behind GM crop commercialisation (July 2003)
Monsanto, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta.
And an overview of the industry as a whole.

GM crops family tree 2003 (May 2003)
As 3 corporations, Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, push for the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, Corporate Watch brings you the biotech family tree. The family tree poster shows the complex tangle of name changes, spin-offs, joint ventures and acquisitions woven by the biotech industry during 10 years of rapid expansion, consolidation and crisis. Click here.

Control freaks - set of 3 briefings on companies importing GMOs, including Introduction, Cargill and ADM
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Cargill Inc.
- condensed version of the Control freaks Cargill supplement
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Apocalypse later? - who's winning the biotech battle?
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From test tube to tummy - the GMO supply chain for beginners.
A guide to which companies and organisations do what throughout the supply chain.
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The industry strikes back - Functional foods: good for Monsanto's health
How biotech companies plan to win the GMO debate and succeed in selling GM foods in large quantities.
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Aventis - The company pushing hardest for GM crops to be grown in Britain
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Animal feed & genetic engineering - set of briefings, including:
• Introduction
• BOCM Pauls
• ABN
• Other Companies
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