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An NOP poll commissioned by Greenpeace and released today reveals a large majority (67%) of the British public are opposed to farm animals being fed on GM crops. A clear majority of people (55%) do not wish to eat animal products such as meat, eggs, milk and cheese from animals fed on GM crops and 90% of respondents want products from animals fed GM crops to be clearly labelled. The results of the survey are:

Do you think the use of GM crops for use in animal feed should continue, or not?
Yes 26%
No 67%
Don't know 8%

Greenpeace welcomes verdict and calls on government to end GM farm experiments

Twenty-eight Greenpeace volunteers were acquitted today of criminal damage at Norwich Crown Court. The volunteers had gone on trial on September 4th on charges relating to a Greenpeace action at Lyng, Norfolk, on 26th July, 1999, where part of an experimental crop of genetically modified (GM) maize was cut down and sealed in bags as part of a campaign to prevent genetic contamination of the environment.

Commenting on the current controversy surrounding fuel taxation, Stephen Tindale, Greenpeace Policy Director, said:
"Greenpeace agrees with the Government - it is absolutely right not to reduce fuel taxes. Unless we break our addiction to fossil fuels, extreme weather events like the floods in Mozambique will massively increase and the Arctic ice sheet will vanish in forty years. The climate crisis gives us no choice but to reduce our use of petrol and diesel - in fact prices need to rise further in future.

28 Greenpeace volunteers face charges of criminal damage at Norwich Crown Court on Monday, 4th September, 2000. The charges arise from a Greenpeace action at Lyng, Norfolk, on 26th July, 1999, where part of an experimental crop of genetically modified (GM) maize was cut down and sealed in bags in order to prevent genetic contamination of the environment.

LONDON, August 22, 2000 --Greenpeace today urged Russia and the international community to spare no effort in recovering the sunken Russian submarine Kursk in order to prevent the release of radioactivity from its two nuclear reactors into the Barents Sea. Greenpeace also called on all countries operating nuclear powered vessels to withdraw them from service because of the inherent risks posed by the technology.

Gland, Switzerland - As the days count down to November's crucial climate summit in The Hague, a coalition of leading environmental organizations today launched the first international web-based initiative to give citizens around the world a voice in demanding a halt to global warming.

Greenpeace today wrote to the Government informing them that, following legal opinion, it considers the planting of this winter's farm scale trials of GM oil seed rape (OSR) unlawful. The letter has been sent John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and to Nick Brown, Minister for Agriculture [1].

BP today took out a restraining order against 25 people on board the Greenpeace ship, the MV Arctic Sunrise, to stop them protecting the climate. The Arctic Sunrise was blockading a 130-metre sea barge to prevent it docking at BP's controversial Arctic oil project, Northstar. Greenpeace's 50 metre icebreaker had positioned itself adjacent to the offshore drilling island to stop the barge from off-loading BP's new control centre and accommodation module when BP served an injunction on the ship and its crew.

Beaufort Sea, Alaska, 3pm local time - Five Greenpeace activists were today arrested by Alaska State Troopers while occupying a barge working for BP in the Arctic Ocean. The 130-metre barge carrying a control centre and accommodation module was en-route to BP's controversial Northstar oil installation. The five Greenpeace activists, three from the UK and two from the US, had occupied the barge for 39 hours.

Honfleur, France/Amsterdam, 29 July - Six Greenpeace activists preventing the offloading of criminal Amazon timber from two multinational companies, Lepeyre and WTK, wre arrested by the French special police in the port of Honfleur in France this morning. Despite the removal of the activists, the Aquitania was unable to prolong its stay in the port, and was forced to leave Honfleur without offloading its criminal cargo.