UK Bio-technology Newswire Archive
The Independent Science Panel on GM Final Report
03-06-2003 09:40
The Case for a GM-free Sustainable World, calling for a ban on GM crops to make way for all forms of sustainable agriculture. This authoritative report, billed as "the strongest, most complete dossier of evidence" ever compiled on the problems and hazards of GM crops as well as the manifold benefits of sustainable agriculture, is being finalised for release 15 June 2003.GM Nation?
03-06-2003 09:33
'GM Nation?', the governments so-called public debate on GM food, is being launched today (3rd June).You probably haven't heard much about this because the government hasn't put aside much money for this exercise and probably doesn't actually want you to get involved...
Poodle wants to chew GM labelsPoodle wants to chew GM label
02-06-2003 07:54
The leaked memos in the Sunday Times article below make totally transparent the basis of the UK government's strategy on GMOs - pleasing Washington!What the article fails to make clear though is the steps the government has already taken to serve Washington's......
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-699255,00.html
Buying consent: How corporations manipulate the GM debate
01-06-2003 22:37
Alan Simpson (Labour backbench MP) explains how corporations are taking control of the world's food supply for the benefit of the bosses back home.GM Crops Family Tree
29-05-2003 15:52
As 3 corporations, Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, push for the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, Corporate Watch brings you the biotech family tree. The family tree shows the complex tangle of name changes, spin-offs, joint ventures and acquisitions woven by the biotech industry during 10 years of rapid expansion, consolidation and crisis.Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop field
19-05-2003 16:44
Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop fieldUK Government plans to force GM products on citizens
19-05-2003 08:25
Conformation of the government's concept of particapatory democracy. Freedom to dissent quietly then submit. Whatever happened to a die-hard belief in market forces? Supply and Demand anyone?ITS GM WAR! USA to use WTO to force EU to eat GMO!
13-05-2003 18:42
IT'S WAR!!!Today (13 May 2002), the US Trade representative has announced that WTO proceedings will start to force the EU to abandon its moratorium on new GM products. American multinational corporation Monsanto has long been pushing for this move, but the US Govt. wanted to get the invasion of Iraq over before antagonising the world even further.Launch of Independent Science Panel on GMOs
08-05-2003 20:16
Independent Science Panel for a GM-Free Sustainable WorldIn a surprising move, dozens of prominent scientists have joined forces to form an Independent Science Panel (ISP) on GM, to counteract what they see to be a concerted campaign by the government and the scientific establishment in the UK to promote GM under the guise of _sound_ science.
Bayer Action Video (low bandwidth)
02-05-2003 11:10
7 minute edit of the Bayer Action on the 25th April.It's a DivX AVI file - approx 5.5mb.
Bayer Blockade Activists Court News
02-05-2003 10:56
Last tuesday, 28th April, those arrested at the Bayer Blockade on the 25th, appeared in court in Cambridge...BAYER CROPSCIENCE BLOCKADE
28-04-2003 09:30
Further details of blockade at Bayer Cropscience UK HQ....Corona virus genetic engineering and the origin of SARS
27-04-2003 03:15
None of the early reports have acknowledged the large body of reports on the genetic manipulation of Corona viruses in the laboratory nor have they considered the possibility that the unique virus arose as a laboratory accident or purposeful experiment. I have searched out a number of studies on the genetic manipulation of Corona viruses and describe a few such studies below.Bayer CropScience Blockade
25-04-2003 16:26
Anti GM crops activists blockade UK HQ of GM crops company Bayer CropScienceBayer hit by AGM protests in UK and Germany
25-04-2003 13:41
Bayer Cropscience's UK HQ has today been blockaded by activists. Simultaneously, British anti-GM activists disrupted Bayer's AGM in Köln, Germany. Here's an account of the German end of things.GM protest trio win their appeal
29-03-2003 08:01
A LEADING environmentalist has won an appeal against a criminal conviction for his part in a GM crop protest. Mark Ballard, 31, the national secretary of the Scottish Green Party and a Scottish Parliament candidate, was fined £125 after a trial in 2001.Biotechnology Newswire March 18
19-03-2003 04:34
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Biotechnology Newswire March 10
10-03-2003 15:08
Nearly 40 Vermont towns, from Brattleboro north to Bakersfield, voted at Town Meeting this week for resolutions opposing the genetic engineering (GE) of food and crops. As of 10:30 PM Tuesday evening, 37 have supported their resolutions, 4 have tabled the issue and 3 voted against it. A total of 69 Vermont towns have now gone on record against GE foods, beginning in 2000.