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Urgent Alert: Sign Petition To Protest Dr. Chapela's Tenure Denial
Urgent Alert: Sign Petition To Protest Dr. Chapela's Tenure Denial!
A 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.
Chapela was a key note speaker at the teach in and protests organized by the Sacramento Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture against the Bush regime's Ag Expo in Sacramento in June 2003.
Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr. Chapela's tenure denial. Sign here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/uc.htm
A 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.
Chapela was a key note speaker at the teach in and protests organized by the Sacramento Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture against the Bush regime's Ag Expo in Sacramento in June 2003.
Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr. Chapela's tenure denial. Sign here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/uc.htm
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