PROFESSOR CANNED FOR RELEASING PAPER ON CORN CONTAMINATION

December 19, 2004

PROFESSOR CANNED FOR RELEASING PAPER ON CORN CONTAMINATION ACTION ALERT: PROFESSOR CANNED FOR RELEASING PAPER ON CORN CONTAMINATIONA well-respected and popular professor at the University of California in Berkeley has been fired after publishing a scientific paper regarding the uncontrolled contamination of irreplaceable native Mexican corn varieties by genetically engineered corn. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, whose corn contamination article was published in the science journal "Nature," was denied his tenure due to pressure from the biotech company Monsanto on the University (the UC Berkeley tenure review panel had actually voted almost unanimously to approve his tenure). Professor Chapela has been told to have his office cleaned out by December 31. Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr. Chapela's tenure denial. Sign here... http://www.organicconsumers.org/uc.htm#petition