FIRED BIOTECH CRITIC PROFESSOR FILES LAWSUIT

FIRED BIOTECH CRITIC PROFESSOR FILES LAWSUIT
A well-respected professor at the University of California in Berkeley has been fired after publishing a scientific paper exposing the reckless contamination of irreplaceable native Mexican corn varieties by genetically engineered corn exported from the U.S. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, whose corn contamination article was published in the science journal "Nature," was mysteriously denied his tenure, despite the fact the UC Berkeley tenure review panel had actually voted almost unanimously to approve his tenure. In response, Chapela filed a lawsuit last week against the college. The former professor says the University removed him under pressure from Novartis, a multinational biotechnology corporation who had offered the school millions of dollars in funding. Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr. Chapela's tenure denial. http://www.organicconsumers.org/uc.htm