GM animal feed

Greenpeace 13 acquitted in GM trial

Last edited 16 September 2005 at 8:00am
16 September, 2005

Campaigners reveal illegal varieties of GM are being imported into UK

A jury at Cardiff Crown Court today cleared 13 Greenpeace volunteers of causing a public nuisance after a two-week trial that saw the trade in GM animal feed attacked by defendants from the witness box.

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GM documents

Last edited 17 October 2003 at 8:00am

The following documents relate to our GM foods campaign.

Download the letter we received from Sainsbury's regarding its GM animal feed policy.

Download the letter we received from Marks & Spencer regarding its GM animal feed policy.

Download the polling results we received from ICM research.

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GM sneaking back into our food

Last edited 23 July 2003 at 8:00am

Our new online Shopper's Guide to genetically modified (GM) food shows that despite a consumer backlash, the controversial technology is slipping into our shopping trolleys.

GM is sneaking through the back door via animal feed. This encourages the growing of contaminating GM crops, even though consumers have rejected GM ingredients. Most of the major retailers promised the public they would remove food containing GM ingredients from their shelves, but almost all of them are failing to tackle the GManimal feed issue.

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The Brazilian challenge

Last edited 23 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
23 November, 2001

Securing the non-GM soya supply

Summary
This is a briefing by Greenpeace for the UK food and feed industry on the Brazilian non-GM soya supply.

Consumers in the UK and Europe continue to demand non-GM food, and animal products fed on non-GM feed. However, some companies are concerned about threats to the non-GM status of Brazil, the major non-GM producing country.

Download the report:
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Non-GM animal feed - opportunities and costs for

Last edited 24 September 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
31 August, 2001

Overwhelming demand for meat fed on non-GM diet

Greenpeace has consistently argued that genetically modified (GM) crops should not be released into the environment, and since 1996 that they should not be introduced into the food chain. This view is shared by much of the British public. GM ingredients have been removed from most human food products; now attention is turning to the feeding of GM crops to animals.

Polls by the major supermarkets have shown clearly that consumers do not want animals to be fed GM diets:

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UK's largest poultry producer goes non-GM

Last edited 2 February 2001 at 9:00am
chickenGrampian, who produce 3.8 million chickens a week and provide some of the UK's top supermarkets with their own label chicken have announced that they will be feeding all of their poultry and pigs with non-GM soya by June 2001.

This news follows hot on the heels of announcements by Tesco and Asda that poultry and pigs sold under their own labels will be non-GM fed from this summer.

Top turkey producer Bernard Matthews have also announced that they are to feed their turkeys non-GM feed.

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