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Environmentally friendly garden furniture: a consumer guide

Last edited 8 April 2005 at 8:00am
A detail from the Garden Furniture Guide

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Some of Britain's best known retailers are selling garden furniture made from timber which has been illegailly logged from the world's rainforests. The Garden Furniture Guide is our website designed to help consumers ensure that the timber used in their garden products comes from environmentally and socially well-managed sources.

The site is arranged so that you can search by either brand or retailer. Product ranges are coded in either red, yellow or green depending on the source of the timber they use. By using your consumer power to purchase environmentally friendly alternatives, you can help us force manufacturers to stop sourcing their timber from trashed rainforests.

The only way you can ensure that your garden furniture hasn't come from old-growth rainforest is to buy products certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). Always look out for their logo, and buy with confidence.

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EU labelling laws come into force

Last edited 14 April 2004 at 8:00am
Which products are GM free?

Which products are GM free?

New European law requiring food manufacturers to label genetically modified (GM) products comes into force on 18th April.

The rules will help to give consumers and farmers the right to avoid GM products.

Under the rules:

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Dozens of cows invade flagship Sainsbury's

Last edited 20 February 2004 at 9:00am
20 February, 2004

London shoppers are getting a taste of the countryside today after Greenpeace released more than thirty costume cows into the flagship Sainsbury's store in Greenwich. The invasion is a protest against the supermarket chain's continued support for the GM industry.

Sainsbury's own-brand milk comes from cows fed on American GM animal feed. Although the company claims to lead its rivals in providing quality food, Sainsbury's is supporting the import of thousands of tonnes of GM into the UK every month.

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Co-op bans GM

Last edited 21 October 2003 at 8:00am

Co-op bans GM

Organic fruit and vegetables

Greenpeace welcomes the Co-op's decision to say no to the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, and to ban GM ingredients, including animal feed, from throughout its business.

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Shopper's Guide shows Tesco, Iceland, Morrisons bottom of league as GM slips on to shelves

Last edited 24 July 2003 at 8:00am
24 July, 2003

A new consumer guide to genetically modified food shows how the controversial technology is slipping onto our supermarket shelves. The updated Greenpeace Shopper's Guide lists scores of products that come from animals fed on GM food, and details how some major retailers are failing to tackle the issue.

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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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Greenpeace tells Danish bacon producer

Last edited 5 October 2001 at 8:00am
5 October, 2001

Danepak bacon

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Is the baby food you buy really non-GM?

Last edited 8 March 2001 at 9:00am
8 March, 2001
smaGreenpeace today released a guide to which baby food brands are fully non-GM. The guide, which is part of Greenpeace's Shoppers Guide to GM, can be accessed online or by sending a SAE to Greenpeace.


None of the baby food on sale in the UK directly contains GM ingredients. However it can contain products, such as cheese, eggs or meat, from animals fed on GM feed.

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