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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