UK Bio-technology Newswire Archive
Phone and Email Blockade of Bayer Cropscience
25-03-2004 13:10
Monday 22nd of March saw a phone and email blockade of Bayer Cropscience, aimed at undermining their communications and disrupting the smooth running of their offices.GM maize sunk by Welsh Assembly
24-03-2004 23:57
Chardon LL will not now be added to the UK National Seeds Register, and that there is no hope at all that it could be grown anywhere in the UK before its current Part C consent expires in October 2006.Boycott Bayer Campaign
23-03-2004 12:53
Boycott Bayer has been launched by anti-GM campaigners: posters and leaflets availableBoycott Bayer GM - Get yer posters here!
23-03-2004 08:02
Campaigners have produced free, brightly coloured "Boycott Bayer" posters. Ideal for posting next to chemists, vets, garden centres and doctors surgeries to let them and the public know about the campaign against Bayer and it's attempts to introduce GM crops into the UK. Bayer is the only remaining company pushing GM crops in the UK at the moment and the focus of a campaign against them. See below for more information.Europe urged to reject genetically modified rice
22-03-2004 15:11
European Governments are being urged to reject a Genetically Modified (GM)rice in order to protect the world's largest staple food from falling into
the hands of multinational companies.
GM PHONE BLOCKADE - UPDATE
22-03-2004 12:45
THE GM PHONE BLOCKADE - CHANGE OF NUMBER: 01223 252557PHONE BLOCKADE
21-03-2004 14:28
PHONE AND EMAIL BLOCKADE - AGAINST GM.Phone 01223 252514 - direct line of Paul Rylott, head of Bayer Bioscience.
ukinfo@bayercropscience.com
Colin Blakemore - vivisector - speaking at Dana Centre
19-03-2004 00:39
Bayer works in Widness spray painted
17-03-2004 15:28
Anti-gm slogans were spray painted on a wall and sign at the Bayer Crop Science works in Widness.Cunning non GM plot plot
17-03-2004 14:37
Here's a cool idea that could certainly catch the public imagination and involvement into the anti-GM campaign. If there was a big take up all over the country (which might require more work than the one person mentioned below can do by himself) then it could have the effect of forcing the government into a further bad PR situation and also force the locations of GM fodder maize sites to be disclosed to anyone that fancies a bit of weeding..Yet another GM sugarbeet withdrawn from UK national seed list application
17-03-2004 13:26
Syngenta/Monsanto withdraw the last GM sugarbeet from the UK national seed list processGM Danger to humans
16-03-2004 22:11
Interesting reference article from the Evening Standard because it has direct evidence of harm to humans from GM crops. (Though I don't think this is the first instance as the article claims.)Another GM crop dropped from UK national list application process
16-03-2004 13:01
Syngenta/Monsanto withdraw GM sugarbeet variety leaving only 4 (of the original 58) GM crop varieties left in the UK national seed list application processBayer CropScience going blue in the face over GM crops
16-03-2004 12:45
Paul Rylott's replacement as head of Bayer BioScience and acting chair of the ABC lobby group says of GM crop commercialisation "I've stopped holding my breath because I keep going blue"Sainsburys as a focus for anti-GM campaign
15-03-2004 15:21
A couple of weeks ago there was a national day of action against sainsbury's (see
http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/uk/servlet/OpenMir?do=search&search_content=sainsburys+gm&search_boolean=and&search_creator=&search_topic=Bio-technology&search_hasImages=n&search_hasAudio=n&search_hasVideo=n&search_sort=date_desc&search_submit=Search%21). Actions are ongoing and you are invited to get involved. The following article explains why sainsbury's is being targeted and suggests ideas for action.
Blair & Beckett - Biotech's Bought Bullies
14-03-2004 12:18
GM crops cannot be grown commercially in the "UK" without the agreement of the devolved structures in Cymru & Alba. Those bodies object, so it's time to intimidate (coshes sponsored by Monsanto, Aventis, etc.)...Undercover Lawyer Exposed At Animal Rights Meeting
10-03-2004 12:28
The following was cut and pasted from the archive section.It seems the original posting was misssed by the majority of readers.
GM Crops given the go-ahead by neo-Labour
09-03-2004 14:36
The government have approved commercial GM crop growing after five years of public 'consultation'. The message from the public was clear...NO to GM crops. The message from the corporations was YES to GM crops.Guess who won?!
More sabotage of Bayer
08-03-2004 10:58
Locks jammed at Bayer Crop Science in North Yorkshiregm findings - latest
07-03-2004 11:44
sorry -its lifted from a mainstream newspaper but: new sci-findings from tests on non-GM crops to prove impossibility of co-existence