Press releases
Immediate release (10 Aug 2005)
The Five Year Freeze (FYF), the national campaign calling for a moratorium on GM commercialisation, is changing its name. From August 10th it will be known as GM Freeze. The change is to reflect a continuing need to highlight the …
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Immediate release (21 Mar 2005)
As European Commissioners gather to debate the future of Genetically Modified (GM) crops and food tomorrow (22 March), environment and consumer representatives have exposed an EC Recommendation, guiding member states on GM crops, as legally and fundamentally flawed. The NGOs …
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Immediate release (21 Mar 2005)
The results of the farm scale evaluations of GM winter oilseed rape, published today, should not be used to justify the commercial go ahead for this controversial crop say the Freeze Campaign. The results show less dramatic harm to wildlife …
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Immediate release (21 Mar 2005)
On the 21st of March, the Government will publish the results of its field scale trials of genetically modified (GM) winter oilseed rape. These are the final results from the Government’s Farm Scale Evaluations (FSE) of genetically modified (GM) herbicide …
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Immediate release (15 Mar 2005)
Today, in advance of the announcement of the final results of the Farm-scale Evaluations (FSE) of GM winter oilseed rape next Monday (21st March 2005), GeneWatch UK, the GM Freeze and Friends of the Earth, jointly published two key documents: …
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Immediate release (8 Feb 2005)
The GM Freeze have urged Environment Minister Elliott Morley to oppose moves by the Canadian Government to force through a proposal to legalise the use of terminator genes at a UN meeting in Bangkok this week. Documents released at the …
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Immediate release (19 Jan 2005)
New research on GM sugar beet published tomorrow (1) shows that different crop management will leave the UK’s farmland wildlife short of food at some stage in the year. The research carried out by the UK’s only sugar beet research …
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Immediate release (16 Dec 2004)
The GM Freeze warmly welcomed the news that the two remaining applications to place GM seeds on the UK’s “national seed list” were withdrawn by Bayer CropScience on 9th November. There are now currently no GM varieties awaiting seed listing …
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