The Warnings from science

• Are there dangers in genetic modification?

  An article on some of the basic scientific observations on issues surrounding genetic transformation.

• Is GM safe?

  3 articles In this section...
  • Is GM soya safe?
  • Safety testing made simple - too simple
  • Viral DNA dangers

  Horizontal gene transfer

  Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the  stable transfer of DNA between sexually incompatible organisms.  Genetic engineers do their own version of HGT: they build artificial DNA constructs and insert them into living cells.

How much do we know?

• Three key risks

  A cell biologist's warning

• The road to disease is paved with GM

  In every major developed country, health services are buckling under the strain of spiralling chronic disease in the population and the huge cost of our modern high-tech health system.

• Why fear DNA?

  What possible reason could there be to fear an itsy-bitsy piece of DNA in your food? Claims that there is no inherent risk in consuming DNA, including that derived from GM crops may not be grounded in sound logic.

Modifying the mind - manipulation , coercion and distraction

• Emotional manipulation

  The UK government seems to have been creating waves of 'debate' on the GM issue ever since the biotech industry started trying to force its products down our throats. If you're wondering what is behind this tactic, read how your emotions, your mind and your opinion have been manipulated.

• Turning the GM screw

  You might think that all the pressure to rush into GM agriculture is coming from the biotech industry.  But there are others in positions of power who are busy.

• Golden distraction

  Long-promised but never quite arrived, Golden Rice is proving to be nothing more than an emotional Trojan Horse: a GM staple crop cynically designed to exploit the suffering of the third world by using it to divert attention away from the very real issues of GM safety.   Too bad to be true?

Other GM threats

• Biofuels: bad science, bad maths, bad policy, bad ethics 

  Apparently overnight biofuels became a GM success story of sustainable, economical, clean, safe, environmentally friendly alternative to oil, providing the solution to our energy problems and global warming. What the biotech industry doesn't want to know is the uncomfortable conclusions scientists have come to about biofuels.

Special messages

And finally...

• The story about the 100th monkey

  An analogy on social change