GM threat requires strong legislation
Western Mail / Wales Online, 21 December 2015 – coverage gained by a GM Freeze media volunteer
GM Freeze in the news
Follow the links below for media stories that include a GM Freeze interview, quote or mention.
If you spot some coverage of GM Freeze and it’s not listed here, please let us know by emailing info[at]gmfreeze.org.
If you are a journalist with a media enquiry, please contact Liz O’Neill on 07811 211 404 or liz[at]gmfreeze.org
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill discusses GM Salmon
BBC 5 Live Daily, 20 November 2015 (approximately 50mins into programme, available until 19 December)
Farming Today This Week: Genetic modification
BBC Radio 4, 31 October 2015 (available until 28 November 2015)
Alarm as GM crops planted by mistake
Daily Mail, 30 October 2015
‘Super tomatoes’ could help fight disease
ITV News, Anglia, 27 October 2015
Damage to global farming
The Grocer (letters), 24 October 2015 (behind paywall)
Scotland to ban genetically modified produce while EU-approved controversial crops are to be grown in England
Daily Mail, 9 August 2015
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill speaking about GM wheat trial failure
BBC 5 Live Drive, 25 June 2015 (55 mins in, available until 24 July)
Failed experiement -GMO wheat is impossible to make
Mirror Spectrum, 27 June 2015
Anti-GM protestors don’t understand how science works
Telegraph, 27 June 2015
GM wheat trial fails after £2m invested in scheme
Yorkshire Post, 26 June 2015
Failure of GM wheat programme…
Benchmark Reporter, 26 June 2015
GM wheat trial fails after £2m invested in scheme
Commodity India, 26 June 2015
Keep trying, says Shropshire MP Owen Paterson after GM trials fail
Shropshire Star, 26 June 2015
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill discusses GM wheat trial
Farming Today, BBC Radio 4, 26 June 2015 (5 mins in, available until 25 July)
Controversial GM wheat trial fails
BT.com, 26 June 2015
Efforts to develop aphid resilient wheat defeated in field trials
Perfect Science, 26 June 2015
Taxpayer-funded trial of GM wheat ends in a £3m failure
Daily Mail, 26 June 2015
UK taxpayers foot bill as GM wheat trial fails
Scotsman, 26 June 2015
GM wheat fails to repel pests in trials costing almost £1m
International Business News, 26 June 2015
GM what crop fails despite £2m bill to beat eco-saboteurs
Express, 25 June 2015
Report on wheat trial results
PM, BBC Radio 4, 25 June 2015 (52mins 50 seconds in, available until 24 July 2015)
GM wheat crop fails to repel bugs, £3m trial branded ‘a waste’
RT, 25 June 2015
‘Pointless’ £3m GM wheat trial fails
Telegraph, 25 June 2015
Controversial £2m GM wheat trial fails
Western Morning News, 25 June 2015
GM ‘whiffy wheat’ fails to deter pests, £2.6m UK study finds
Financial Times, 25 June 2015
UK GM Wheat ‘does not repel pests’
BBC News / Science and Environment (online), 25 June 2015
GM Food – Cultivating Fear
Panorama, BBC One, 8 June 2015
March Against Monsanto (no link available)
RT, 23 May 2015 (no link available)
Ethical shopper’s guide to restaurant chains
Ethical Consumer, May/June 2015 issue
You are what they eat
New Internationalist blog by GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill, 29 April 2015
Total Control: is Monsanto unstoppable?
New Internationalist, April 2015 issue
The other side of GM story
The Independent (Letters – scroll for this headline), 27 March 2015
Could ‘super spuds’ soon be on the menu?
Daily Mail, 26 March 2015
Domino’s selling genetically modified pizza despite website claiming it is GM-free
The Independent, 22 March 2015
Now ‘GM-free’ Domino’s selling Frankenfood Pizzas
Daily Mail, 21 March 2015.
Please note update on the Domino’s story on our page www.gmfreeze.org/spotted
GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill discusses MPs report on GM regulation
BBC 5 Live Breakfast, 26 February 2015 (from 2hr 48mins, available until 27 March 2015)
MPs call for reform of EUs ‘flawed’ rules on GM crops
BBC Science and Environment, 26 February 2015
Britain must take back power from Europe to allow GM crops, say MPs
The Telegraph, 26 February 2015
Call GM food something else to ease public fears, say MPs
Daily Mail, 26 February 2015
Liz O’Neill on MPs GM report (no link available)
RT News, 26 February 2015 (no link available)
‘Values, not science’: British MPs attach EU anti-GM policy
RT (Russia Today), 26 February 2015
MPs urge reform of GM crop rules
Western Morning News, 26 February 2015
Rapporto shock pro Ogm del Parlamento britannico
greenreport.it, 26 February 2015 (in Italian)
Liz O’Neill discusses MPs report on GM regulation
BBC Radio Wales, 25 February 2015 (from 42 mins, available until 27 March)
Liz O’Neill discusses GM issues (no link available)
CSRfm, 25 February 2015 (no programme link available)
Brussels vote could open door to GM crops in UK
Farmers Weekly, 13 January 2015
Impact of the EU opt-outs directive – RT UK (Russia Today) (no link available)
13 January 2015 (no link available)
World Business Report discussion GM vote in EU
World Service, 13 January 2015
Concerns raised ahead of key GM vote
Farmers Guardian, 13 January 2015
EU set to allow GM crops to be grown in the UK
Daily Mail, 13 January 2015
Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss publicly backs GM as “eco-friendly”
Daily Mail, 8 January 2015
