News releases and comments from GM Freeze are listed below.
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Immediate release (7 Jun 2010)
GM potatoes to be planted in test site in Norfolk are not a good use of public money according to GM Freeze. The group has revealed that research into genetically modifying potatoes to resist the fungal disease late blight has …
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Immediate release (2 Jun 2010)
The GM Public ‘Dialogue’, being planned by the Food Standards Agency for later in 2010, is in chaos following the resignation of a second Steering Committee member in less than a week. Professor Brian Wynne [1] resigned from the independent …
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Immediate release (27 May 2010)
GM Freeze has described to the news that the Food Standards Agency’s GM Public ‘Dialogue’ could be conducted by a consultancy already working for a biotechnology company as a “breathtaking, arrogant and cynical attempt to manipulate public opinion on GM …
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Immediate release (20 May 2010)
The announcement from the Craig Venter Institute that they have successfully genetically engineered an entirely artificial organism that can replicate itself raises many ethical, scientific, economic and safety issues. GM Freeze believes the general public should be fully involved in …
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Immediate release (25 Mar 2010)
On 25 March 2009 GM Freeze met with NFUS President Jim Mclaren and NFUS Chief Executive James Withers. At the meeting they expressed the view that the US experience of GM had been a “train wreck” and expressed the view …
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Immediate release (19 Mar 2010)
As the EU causes uproar by approving the first Genetically Modified crop in 12 years (BASF’s GM “Amflora” potato) and Defra have to decide whether to license two GM potato trials in England, the humble potato is again making headline …
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Immediate release (8 Mar 2010)
Monsanto’s admission that a major cotton pest has developed resistance to their GM Bollgard 1 Bt cotton has been described by GM Freeze as “predictable” and that it “could be disastrous for poor farmers”. Resistance has been confirmed in one …
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Immediate release (2 Mar 2010)
The announcement by the EC [1] that they have approved BASF’s GM starch altered potato for cultivation to produce starch to be used by industry has been described as a “bad and ill informed decision” by GM Freeze. The pulp …
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Immediate release (23 Feb 2010)
The latest data from the ISAAA on GM crops around the world [1] reveals that seven out of 25 countries had reduced GM cultivation areas in 2009 and another remained static. The data from the industry-funded group reveals that no …
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Immediate release (9 Feb 2010)
Commenting on today’s announcement of a moratorium on the approval of GM brinjal in India, Pete Riley of GM Freeze said: GM Freeze warmly welcomes the decision by the Indian government to place a moratorium on the approval of GM …
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Immediate release (9 Feb 2010)
The order from a US Federal court for Bayer CropScience to give US$1.5 million compensation to two rice farmers whose seed was contaminated by the company’s GM trait was welcomed by GM Freeze as “significant development highlighting the need to …
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Immediate release (26 Jan 2010)
The appointment of a GM scientist to the post of Chief Executive of Rothamsted Research [1] has been heavily criticized for sending out “a very clear and unfortunate message as to which direction the BBSRC wishes to take agricultural research …
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Immediate release (19 Jan 2010)
A new report [1] on the spread of herbicide resistant weeds in the world calls upon farmers to take the lead in dealing with the problem if scientists and governments fail to do so. Without such action GM herbicide tolerant …
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Government plans will create a GMO free-for-all - it's time to get involved
Let Defra know how you feel about the proposed trial by 2 May