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GM on trial

Posted by bex — 31 August 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Thirteen Greenpeace volunteers go on trial at Cardiff Crown Court on 1 September facing a charge of 'public nuisance'. This charge relates to their part in temporarily stopping a shipment of GM feed off the coast of South Wales last June.

Article tagged as: direct actions, GM, marks & spencer, sainsburys, ships, trials

GM animal feeds: Greenpeace explains next step in campaign against GM foods

Posted by admin — 1 September 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

Solution - go organic

In the wake of Marks and Spencer's announcement that it is to start removing genetically modified soya and maize from animal feed, Greenpeace's food specialist Stokely Webster explains the significance of this latest development.

The first Greenpeace True Food supermarket tour took place in Liverpool at Tesco Metro

Posted by admin — 28 August 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

Starting at 10am, Greenpeace members conducted a series of public information tours around Tesco, one of the many supermarkets in the UK that stocks products containing GM ingredients.

'We'll be showing people in Liverpool that they are able to buy good, wholesome organic food and that they can avoid buying into this GM experiment. This will send a clear message to our supermarkets that we want GM food off the shelves and banned from the city. Don't buy it, go organic,' said local Greenpeace campaigner, Pete Mulhall.

 

The true cost of food

Posted by admin — 28 August 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

The True Cost Of Food

A new report into  'The True Cost of Food', released by Greenpeace and the Soil Association,  calls for a ban on GM and  a phase-out of industrialised farming. The report looks at the real cost of industrialised farming in terms of human health, animal welfare, and the environment and exposes this vision of agriculture as fundamentally flawed. It claims that current Government policy embraces irresponsible short-term priorities, missing out on the huge commercial potential of modern organic farming.

Crops uprooted in GM protest

Posted by admin — 27 July 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

Greenpeace activists removing GM crop

At 5.15am, at Lyng, Norfolk, Greenpeace volunteers participated in a peaceful direct action, decontaminating a six acre field of GM maize due to flower within the week.

With the help of a farm mower, the crop was cut off at the roots, and the maize placed in bags in order to contain the contamination. Twenty-eight people have been arrested and charged with theft and criminal damage.

Greenpeace will sue European Commission to save butterfly species

Posted by admin — 1 July 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

The European Commission is obliged to cancel the market approval for all genetically engineered Bt-crops according to an independent legal opinion prepared for Greenpeace. Allowing the Bt maize crops to be grown commercially while halting the approval process for similar new crops is a breach of EU law.

Article tagged as: Bt maize, butterflies, european commission, GM, GM crops

Greenpeace will sue European Commission to save butterfly species

Posted by admin — 1 July 1999 at 8:00am - Comments

The European Commission is obliged to cancel the market approval for all genetically engineered Bt-crops according to an independent legal opinion prepared for Greenpeace. Allowing the Bt maize crops to be grown commercially while halting the approval process for similar new crops is a breach of EU law.

Article tagged as: Bt maize, butterflies, european commission, GM, GM crops
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