2009-10-16 | permalink
Ireland adopts GM-free zone policy
The Irish Government will ban the cultivation of all GM crops and introduce a voluntary GM-free label for food – including meat, poultry, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and dairy produce made without the use of GM animal feed. The policy was adopted as part of the Renewed Programme for Government agreed between the two coalition partners, the centre-right Fianna Faíl and the Green Party, after the latter voted to support it on Saturday.
GM Free Ireland Network, Ireland: Ireland adopts GM-free zone policy2009-09-28 | permalink
Industry and greens battle over pseudoscience in EU capital
An industry-bankrolled PR company has attacked what it calls pseudoscience in EU legislation, as a years-long war between the defenders of enlightenment and the partisans of obscurantism comes to Brussels. Grayling, the world’s third largest public relations company, on Monday launched ’ScienceMatters,’ a campaign to promote ”science-based policy-making.” The group wants to take on bad science and what it describes as scaremongering about technology.
2009-09-23 | permalink
The Romanian Government holds locations of GMO cultivation secret
Agent Green has submited two legal proceedings at the Bucharest Court of Appeal against Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agency for Environmental Protection because the institutions refuse to publish the locations where cultivation of GM maize MON810 takes place. The organziation has requested the court to oblige the institutions to publish the national register with locations cultivated with GMOs, to cover the trial costs and to fine the responsible persons with 20% of the gross salary for each day of delay on executing the court decision.
2009-09-17 | permalink
GM in Indian foods: Greenpeace flags the good and the bad
Eleven major food companies in India have been slotted in a ’red list’, compiled by Greenpeace India, in the country’s first safe food guide on Genetically Modified ingredients. The companies are: Nestlé, Hindustan Unilever, Kellogg, Cadbury, Agro Tech Foods Ltd., FieldFresh Foods Pvt Ltd. (a unit of Bharti Enterprises), Bambino Agro Industries Ltd., Britannia Industries Ltd., Godrej Hershey Foods, Parle, and Safal. Most of these products are marketed heavily on television, sending messages that they help create healthy individuals. Greenpeace India is saying this may not be so.
2009-09-08 | permalink
The non-science of biotechnology companies
An anonymous public statement was signed and submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by 26 leading scientists, entomologists who work with insects that infect corn. It stated that scientists are unable to conduct independent research on GM crops as patents prevent full access to research materials and the ability to grow and study these plants. [...] In other words, the claims of GMO proponents cannot be verified independently or indeed be falsified
2009-09-04 | permalink
Pain-free animals would not be guilt-free
Yes, logically speaking, pain-free animals make sense. But only in a world that has already devalued animal lives to the point where factory farming is acceptable. Our visceral reaction to pain-free animals is actually a displaced reaction against the system that makes them necessary. Too many of us are too attached to the pleasures of affordable meat to consider the plight of factory-farmed animals. If the proposal to create pain-free animals achieves anything, it is to force us to confront the pain and suffering that our diets inflict. End factory farming, and the ”problem” of pain-free animals goes away too.
2009-09-02 | permalink
Supermarkets in ’secret talks to introduce GM foods to the shelves’
The big supermarkets have held secret talks to pave the way for the introduction of controversial GM crops on to their shelves, industry sources said last night. The stores banned GM ingredients more than ten years ago in response to public anxiety about their impact on human health and the environment. But a source indicated that all the major supermarkets were involved in the discussions except Waitrose.
2009-08-25 | permalink
Greenpeace campaign starts in Luxembourg
Greenpeace launched their European campaign against genetically modified rice in Luxembourg last Friday. The aim of the campaign is to reject the European Commission’s proposal to authorise pharmaceutical giant Bayer’s genetically modified rice LL62. The rice is resistant to glufosinate, a pesticide which is produced by the same company. The product is highly toxic and the new European reform on pesticides plans to ban the use of glufosinate once the current authorisation expires.
2009-08-20 | permalink
Is Obama putting the ’anti’ back into antitrust?
Farmers across the Midwest have been meeting to protest Monsanto’s control of the seed market. OCM attorney David Balto reminded Weiser that Democrats in the Clinton Administration filed an antitrust action against Microsoft, the software maker. ”Back then, you started off suing Microsoft,” Balto said. ”That’s a nice letter to begin with.”
2009-08-20 | permalink
Stay green, not black, dads urged
Greenpeace, a global campaigner for the protection and conservation of the environment, led a rally yesterday afternoon calling on the Negros Occidental Sanggunian to preserve the province as the country’s organic farming capital. About 100 farmers and members of church and civic groups gathered in front of the provincial Capitol in Bacolod to press members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to uphold Provincial Ordinance 007, which bans the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and secures the future of Negros as the organic farming capital of the Philippines.
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- Ireland adopts GM-free zone policy
- Industry and greens battle over pseudoscience in EU capital
- The Romanian Government holds locations of GMO cultivation secret
- GM in Indian foods: Greenpeace flags the good and the bad
- The non-science of biotechnology companies
- Pain-free animals would not be guilt-free
- Supermarkets in ’secret talks to introduce GM foods to the shelves’
- Greenpeace campaign starts in Luxembourg
- Is Obama putting the ’anti’ back into antitrust?
- Stay green, not black, dads urged
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