[MPWG] Fwd: UCB professor fired for publishing corn contamination article (fwd)

[Sonya]

>From the Organic Consumers Association.  Judge for  yourself before signing/passing on. Sonya

Dear Friend,

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.

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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