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GM Revealed: Government's secret multimillion pound support for GM crops |
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GM Secret Files. See today's article in The Independent. The government has always said they are neutral in the matter of GM however it provides "at least £50m a year for research into agricultural biotechnology, largely GM crops and food. This generosity contrasts with the £1.6m given last year for research into organic agriculture, in spite of repeated promises to promote environmentally friendly 'sustainable' agriculture."
See the full article on: http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104668.ece |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 October 2007 )
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Ministers back moves to grow GM crops in UK |
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Government ministers have given their backing to a renewed campaign by farmers and industry to introduce genetically modified crops to the UK. See the Guardian , Monday 17 September 2007, article written by Alok Jha, science correspondent |
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Don't forget to check out the LABB website |
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LABB - Lothian And Borders Bio-check website - http://ecoforth.org.uk/gm/ is a must for anyone wanting to keep themselves uptodate with GM news. |
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Canada's "covert campaign" against Ireland's policy on GM crops |
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Following the forced shutdown of the GM Watch website - restored on 22 August - GM Free Ireland have published allegations about the activities of the Canadian Government, involving an Irish "front man".
The lengthy report covering recent events is on the Irish website at: http://www.gmfreeireland.org/morris/index.php |
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GM corn destroyed in Algarve |
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On the 17th of August the Movimento Verde Eufemia went into action of civil disobedience, targeting the first transgenic field in the Algarve GMO Free Zone in South Portugal. 65 mowers entered the field and were able to mow a hectare of GM corn in less than 20 minutes. The action received support from a parade of an extra 60 people.
For further information go to http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/379708.html |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 September 2007 )
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Canadian Government bureaucrat closes GM Watch website temporarily |
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The GM Watch website is back after being shut down for nearly a week after being attacked by a Canadian Government bureaucrat. In an outrageous attack on free speech a Canadian Government bureaucrat succeeded in censoring a UK public interest website which serves a global audience on the GM issue. But his goal went still further than that. The concern was over our expose of research which, according to a spokesman for Greenpeace Canada at the time, was "deliberately skewed to favour Bt corn, out of fear that consumers would reject the controversial technology." For further information go to http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=72&page=1 |
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Consumers Flood FDA With Over 130,000 Comments Opposing Food From Cloned Animals |
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Americans urge agency to adopt a mandatory ban on untested, cloned food.
A coalition of consumer, environmental and animal welfare organizations today announced the submission of more than 130,000 comments to the Food and Drug Administration from consumers who oppose the Agency’s proposed plan to introduce food from cloned animals into the US food supply.http://truefood.blogspot.com/ |
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Down on the Pharm in the UK - from The Guardian, April 30 2007 |
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Scientists are growing GM tobacco engineered to contain an anti-HIV drug in a laboratory based at a London hospital.
The Guardian article that tells the story claims that things are much more relaxed when it comes to pharma crops in North America and quotes Ventria's pharma rice in Kansas as an example. It doesn't mention that Ventria was chased out of California and even out of Monsanto's home state of Missouri when it tried to cultivate pharma rice there. It also wrongly claims that some diabetics "object to" GM insulin as if it were an ideological issue, whereas in fact, their refusal of GM insulin has more to do with its sometimes life-threatening side effects. http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7810 |
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