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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%
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Greenpeace will be attending the forthcoming conference organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD on the health aspects of genetically modified (GM) food, which is taking place in Edinburgh from 28 Feb - 1 March.
Greenpeace International representative Benny Haerlin 1 will be on a panel with Professor Gordon Conway of the Rockerfeller Foundation on the Monday of the conference. Doug Parr, Greenpeace UK's Chief Scientific Advisor will also be attending the conference as a delegate.
Greenpeace has concerns about potential bias at the conference towards pro-GM scientists and organisations.
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Greenpeace today welcomed the announcement by Iceland that from this September it will be the first UK supermarket to ban meat that has been fed on genetically modified soya from its stores.
In an unusual step Iceland has directly purchased 6,000 tonnes of non-GM soya to provide a non contaminated source for its suppliers, who were facing problems purchasing non-GM animal feed. Iceland is also offering to supply the soya to other retailers, food producers and farmers.
Greenpeace Campaign Director John Sauven said, "This is excellent news for consumers. The race is now firmly on within the food industry to get rid of the largest source of GM pollution in the UK, the 2 million tons of GM soya & maize imported each year for use as animal feed."
During a recent Greenpeace survey of UK supermarkets' policies on GM foods, food giants ALDI, Co-op, Tesco and Marks & Spencer, all indicated to Greenpeace that they aim to eliminate the use of GM crops from animal feed, so that meat and animal products such as eggs and cheese will be truly GM free.
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31 January 2000 - The consumer revolt against genetically modified foods claimed another success today as Sun Valley, Britain's largest chicken producer, admitted that it has banned the use of GM Soya in its chickenfeed in response to public demand.
"This is a really significant victory for consumers, as up until now Sun Valley has been one of the main users of Monsanto's GM soya here in Europe" said Jim Thomas, Greenpeace Food Campaigner (1).
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Tesco, the UK's largest food retailer, has written to its suppliers instructing them not to grow crops on sites used for the testing of genetically modified crops. The letter to suppliers states that "We need to be able to assure our customers that no material from GM crop trials could come in contact with our crops. Therefore any crop grown for Tesco MUST NOT [Tesco's emphasis] be grown in a field that has been used for GM trial crops".
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A new survey of British supermarkets by Greenpeace has revealed that major food retailers are rushing to source meat, eggs and dairy products from non-GM fed animals to counter widespread customer concern.
Tesco, the largest food retailer in the UK with an annual food turnover of £3,678 million, has already written to major international animal feed suppliers, Cargill and Archer Daniel Midlands, informing them of their intention to obtain the "complete elimination of GM ingredients from animal feed".
Last edited 1 November 1999 at 9:00am
Hong Kong, November, 1999 - Greenpeace China today revealed that it has found three popular local food products, which contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients. The items, among a batch of 10 products screened for GM components, are Vitasoy Fresh Soya Milk, Pak Fook Fresh Soya Milk and Pak Fook Beancurd Dessert. All three were found to contain genetically modified components called Roundup Ready-Soya.
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Hamburg, October 1999 - After months of silence the Aldi supermarket chain has now declared it will not use genetic modification in its own brand-name products. A letter from the company's head offices assures Greenpeace that its products do not contain genetically modified ingredients and that it wants to continue to ensure this will remain so.
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Ten major food companies that guarantee European consumers their food products are free of genetically modified ingredients continue to hide those ingredients in American's foods, say documents released today by Greenpeace. Last month, Greenpeace requested information from each of these companies on their policies regarding the use of genetically modified (GM) ingredients in the U.S. To date, none of the companies has responded.
