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GM contamination affects Spanish organic farmers |
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Organic farmers in Spain are, according to a Reuters article, abandoning maize after finding traces of GM strains in their crops. In 2004 farmers planted 120 hectares of organic maize in Aragon in Spain. All the crop was later found to have been contaminated by GMOs and the following year Aragon logged only 37 hectares of organic grain, data shows. http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7207
See also "GMO contamination in Spain: a warning for Europe - Impossible Coexistence: Seven years of GMOs have contaminated organic and conventional maize: an examination of the cases of Catalonia and Aragon": http://eu.greenpeace.org/downloads/gmo/impossiblecoexistence060404.pdf
This information comes from Lothian and Borders Bio-check: LABB@smcholden.charitydays.co.uk |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 November 2006 )
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County Kildare becomes a GM-free zone |
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Dublin, 24 October 2006 - Kildare County Council became the ninth county on the island of Ireland to declare itself a GMO-free zone. See the GM-free Ireland website. |
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Scottish Executive shelves GM crops proposals until after the election |
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The Scottish Executive is repeatedly delaying a crucial consultation on the threat of GM crops. See Farming UK website for an article which appeared in the 20 November 2006 edition of Farming UK. |
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Finnie warned on legality of GM guidelines By Rob Edwards |
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IF Scottish ministers follow the example of Westminster on new rules for growing GM crops they will break European law.
For the full article see http://www.sundayherald.com/58739
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 12 November 2006 )
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GM Co-existence Proposals |
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"The Government has promised a public consultation on GM co-existence proposals. Now two years later than expected they are published. Unfortunately these proposals are as feared, a blueprint for GM contamination." (Taken from the Biodynamic website.) To see the key elements in the proposal and action you should take go to the Biodynamic website. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 30 September 2006 )
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Is GM a good idea or a bad idea? |
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Vote online. As a result of Lee Silvers controversial essay, Newsweek have invited harles Margulis, an activist at the Center for Food Safety in SanFrancisco, with help from Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist at theCenter and a former scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency toengage the author in a debate on the Web over the merits of GM food. Vote on line, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12921843/site/newsweek |
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Huge extra seed bills for GM terminator seeds |
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Delegates to a convention in Brazil on terminator seed technology in GM crops have heard the first detailed estimates of the cost of the technology to farmers in key agricultural countries – running to billions of dollars worldwide. For further information see the Elm Farm Research website. |
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Major GM conference in Vienna |
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Next week the EU’s Austrian presidency will hold a major conference in Vienna on genetically modified foods. See the Scottish Farmer 1 April 2006. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 March 2006 )
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