For the latest up-to-date GM test site list please go to http://www.geneticsaction.org.uk/testsites/ Below is an old list of all GE releases into the “UK” environment for summer 2000 Grid Ref Grid references, four number refs will be updated to six number refs when information is available Farm Address Grouped by county from North to South. …
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Suicide Seeds – Terminator
Despite mounting opposition from Southern nations, delegates at the Biodiversity Convention fail to ban Terminator. In the face of mounting evidence of its commercialization, the Fifth Conference of the Parties (COP 5) to the Biodiversity Convention (CBD) failed to heed the warnings of most of the world’s nations to ban the Terminator technology. “By not …
Biosafety Protocol
The protest in the Ariege region on Thursday involved around 400 people who reaped an entire hectare of GE rape using traditional hand tools whilst ten gendarmes looked on, no arrests were made. This is the latest in a line of French direct actions against genetically manipulated crops, only this month a small test plot …
UK biotech trials news
. At least two farmers have pulled out of the recently announced Farm Scale Trials – one at Ulleskelf in Yorkshire and another at Friskney Tofts in Lincolnshire. One of those grid references was TF506542, indicating a trial was taking place at Sea Lane, Friskney. At this time it was not known which farmer owned …
GM rapeseed contaminates the UK
Conventional rapeseed, sold in UK, France, Germany and Sweden, has been accidentally[1] contaminated with GM seeds [2]. A batch of Advanta ‘s Hyola 38, Hyola 330 and Hyola 401 cross pollinated with Monsanto’s roundup ready RT73 in Alberta, Canada over a distance of between 0.8 to 1.4km. [3] It is thought that approximately 1% of …
GM contamination in Daviot
Government backed trials of genetically modified crops suffered another public relations blow last night as ministers revealed that supposedly GM-free crops at the only Scottish site in the programme are contaminated with GM material. But the Scottish executive insisted that the trial at Daviot, Aberdeenshire, would continue – despite ministers’ advice that commercial farmers should …
slide show – primalseeds
There are millions of plants, of which at least 30,000 edible. We rely on no more than 30 to feed us. Rice, wheat and maize provide 65% of the world’s protein intake. 3 crops. home Diversity is what sustains life. Without it plants cannot evolve and adapt to changing conditions. Consider apples, some favour …
Schnews report on Lodon Mayday
“As you would expect the MayDay message about why people were there got kind of lost. But what is a few smashed windows and some daubed paint compared to what global capitalism is doing to the planet?” An anonymous demonstrator Mondays MayDay demonstration in London nearly brought about the collapse of the British way of …
Biosafety Protocol
Thousands of diabetics forced to change to GE insulin are suffering extreme side effects The lawsuit has been launched on behalf of insulin dependent diabetics who have suffered life threatening side effects from GE insulin. Damages are being claimed from the two pharmacuetical companies that control the market in insulin, Lilly and Novo Nordisk. The …
The massacre of Apple Lincoln
from – https://www.primalseeds.org/applelincoln.htm The massacre of Apple Lincoln By Pat Mooney A tyranny of sameness is sweeping the earth. Why? Because the chemical companies have discovered gold in genes Lincoln was assassinated. So were Washington and Jefferson. In fact all three Lincolns were wiped out. In the end it wasnt so much an assassination as …