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23 Dec 2024
Issue 68 of the GM Freeze newsletter Thin Ice highlights the looming question of whether the Labour government in the UK will recklessly deregulate new GMOs or adopt a responsible approach. There’s also a roundup of international news in 2024, covering stories in the Philippines, Argentina, Mexico and Europe. And we call on readers to support an international campaign to stop restrictive seed laws in trade deals.
23 May 2024
Playing football with responsibilities at the Food Standards Agency; Europe votes for traceability and labelling of new-style GMOs; and the problems with purple GM tomatoes. Plus GM Freeze launches our ‘We’ve Been Framed’ messaging guide, and we introduce South East Essex Organic Gardeners in our first Member’s Profile.
8 Dec 2023
Flawed Food Standards Agency consultation on gene edited organisms meets opposition; reflections from GM Freeze’s new Executive Director; our year 2022-23; plus the many ways you can take a stand against GMOs.
5 Jun 2023
News of shocking new GM field trial plans plus what to expect now that the Genetic Technology Act has become law.
8 Feb 2023
News of the final Parliamentary stages of the dangerous Genetic Technology Bill, GM wheat field trials and lots more.
6 Oct 2022
Includes a detailed update on the Genetic Technology Bill, a review of GM Freeze’s year 2021/2 and more evidence of unexpected impacts from planting GMOs.
4 Jul 2022
Focusing on the introduction of the Genetic Technology Bill to the UK Parliament, and efforts to reduce its damaging impact.
9 Apr 2022
The UK Government has created a new (and much disputed) class of GMO plus details of how to object to the latest plans for growing experimental GM potatoes in open fields.
3 Dec 2021
The UK Government has begun the process of dismantling key GM safeguards, despite strong public opposition, plus more on the DNA damage done by new GM techniques and GM news updates from around the world.
10 Sep 2021
Mounting threats to GM safeguards, burnt-toast GM wheat gets the go-ahead and a review of GM Freeze’s year to March 2021.
New law will impose untested - and unlabelled - GMOs on the entire UK food chain.
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