News releases and comments from GM Freeze are listed below.
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Immediate release (17 Dec 2013)
GM Freeze today warned the European Commission against pushing through the approval of DuPont Pioneer’s GM maize 1507, which is being considered for commercial growing. Last week’s decision of the European General Court to annul the Commission’s approval of the …
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Immediate release (4 Dec 2013)
Today GM Freeze wrote to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister, President and Ministers for Commerce and the Environment urging them to overturn the decision to commercialise GM brinjal (aubergine) to protect Bangladeshi farmers and exporters from serious risks to their businesses. …
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Immediate release (13 Nov 2013)
GM Freeze today wrote to David Cameron and Nick Clegg urging them to ensure the UK votes against the EU application for cultivation authorisation for DuPont Pioneer’s genetically modified (GM) 1507 maize at the upcoming meeting of EU Environment Ministers …
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Immediate release (25 Sep 2013)
Delegates at the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’s) 246th national meeting, held in the heart of US corn country, heard dire warnings from weed scientists about the spread of glyphosate resistant weeds and the growing number of weed species with resistance …
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Immediate release (20 Sep 2013)
A major new report from the UN’s Conference on Trade and Development, subtitled Wake up before it is too late, is calling for “a rapid and significant shift” away from chemical- and energy-intensive industrial farming to “mosaics of sustainable regenerative …
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Immediate release (22 Jul 2013)
Commenting on the Government’s Agri-tech Strategy launched today Pete Riley of GM Freeze said: The success of the Government’s new Agri-Tech Strategy depends on how it meets the real needs of people and the environment. Modern intensive farming systems have …
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Immediate release (18 Jul 2013)
GM Freeze today welcomed Monsanto’s announcement that it is withdrawing pending applications to cultivate GM crops in the European Union but said this is not the end of Europe’s GM story. [1] Monsanto says it will withdraw EU cultivation applications …
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Immediate release (8 Jul 2013)
GM Freeze today accused Sainsbury’s of failing to honour its promises to remove GM animal feed from its supply chain and warned shareholders to be wary of reputational risk in the run up to the company’s AGM. [1] In 1999, …
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Immediate release (5 Jul 2013)
GM Freeze today accused M&S of reversing its sustainability and corporate social responsibility promises by ending its previously admirable 12-year policy on using non-GM feed. [1] In the run-up to the M&S AGM GM Freeze warns shareholders this policy reversal …
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Immediate release (27 Jun 2013)
Tesco broke its promise to phase out GM animal feed, badly letting down its customers and breaking commitments made in the company’s corporate social responsibility report, GM Freeze said today on the eve of the Tesco AGM. [1] In 1999 …
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Immediate release (25 Jun 2013)
The iconic US Monarch butterfly is suffering a serious drop in numbers as result of the widespread adoption of GM Roundup Ready (RR) soya and maize in the US Midwest, GM Freeze said today. A new briefing summarises the science …
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Immediate release (21 Jun 2013)
The EU must not repeat the mistakes that lead to the emergence of US glyphosate resistant “superweeds”, and it must reject Monsanto’s toxic “platform” to control them, said GM Freeze and the Pesticide Action Network UK in a briefing published …
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Immediate release (20 Jun 2013)
GM Freeze said today that Owen Paterson’s support for GM crops is based on poor and partial information, that proposed policy changes will have to be agreed by the EU and could make UK food exports to EU markets more …
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Immediate release (20 Jun 2013)
GM Freeze today challenged the UK Government to justify its position on GM crops following recent declarations by the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Minister for Science that the UK should embrace GM …
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Immediate release (14 Jun 2013)
Commenting on the Government’s approval of the Rothamsted Research application to extend the GM wheat trial in Hertfordshire GM Freeze Campaign Director Pete Riley said: GM Freeze is disappointed that the Government has given the go ahead for this trial. …
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Immediate release (13 Jun 2013)
GM Freeze and Friends of the Earth The Government is being urged to take urgent action on pesticides after laboratory tests, published today by Friends of the Earth and GM Freeze found traces of the weedkiller glyphosate in the bodies …
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Immediate release (12 Jun 2013)
UK Government and NFU comments following the results of an informal online poll of farmers conducted by Farmers Weekly disregard market forces in potential markets for UK farmers, GM Freeze said today. [1] The results of an online straw poll …
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Immediate release (4 Jun 2013)
In an open letter to Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board members GM Freeze urged the agency to recommend that the Government backs moves to harmonise GM-free labelling across the EU. Such labels should appear both on foods containing GM ingredients …
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Immediate release (3 Jun 2013)
An alliance of 27 organisations, including the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, Neal’s Yard Remedies, the Real Bread Campaign and War on Want, today issued a statement challenging Rothamsted Research, the Government and funding bodies to be more open …
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Immediate release (30 May 2013)
US regulators announced yesterday that unauthorised GM Roundup Ready (RR) wheat was found growing on a farm in Oregon. [1] The incident coincides with the second year of GM wheat trials at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire. It reinforces GM Freeze’s …
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