Neither Novartis nor German officials had alerted local farmers that GE crops were being introduced. In October, the French Ministry of Agriculture announced a recall of genetically engineered corn. Now there is further cause for alarm. A private corporation, Incyte Genetics, expects to beat the US to the punch by identifying, within one year, all 120,000 to 150,000 sites on the human genome. The World Wide Fund for Nature fears that tigers driven from their sanctuary will be killed by villagers.
All animals have equal rights to exist within the context of biological equilibrium .
So begins the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights. The declaration was originally enunciated on October 15, 1978. Out of Every Five US - A study published in the October issue of BioScience concludes that 40 percent of the world's human deaths are attributable to environmental problems tied to industrial activity and population growth. The lead author, Cornell University Ecology and Agricultural Sciences Professor David Pimintel, noted that air pollution compromises the health of four to five billion people, that 10 percent of the 80,000 pesticides and chemicals released into the environment are known carcinogens, and that climate changes will only compound the effect of infectious diseases. The corn and soybean patch created by the Rodale Institute shows how organic farming can rank alongside reforestation as one of the best ways to remove carbon from the air and reduce the greenhouse effect.