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August 2010

An image of a pr stunt featuring chickens with a placard saying feed me GM fee

Andres Carrasco - one man's campaign for truth
The scientific 'debate' on GM has sadly never been a gentlemanly exchange of views. But surely violence is completely out of order.
Yet more health risks from GM food (on top of those we already know about)
Where will the biggest risk to our health from GM foods come from: Allergies? Toxins? Antibiotic resistant infections? Or, something more insidious?
Join the MOOvement
Did you know there's a sneaky set of links between the food on your plate and the destruction of the South American rainforest? They're all joined up, of course, by GM soya.
Biofuels messing things up in the Gulf
BP isn't the only culprit messing up life in the Gulf of Mexico. The US administration and GM crops are doing it just as well, or, maybe even better.
Commonsense, honesty... and science
Will we really heal, fuel and feed the world with agri-techniques proven not to work, with spin to cover up the problems, and by pinning our future on a belief in a technological God?
Say no to Synthia
Are scientists kidding themselves they can 'create' life? They're certainly kidding themselves that their 'synthetic cells' are safe.
Just resist
Ever felt daunted by the magnitude of the powers trying to force GM food on you? There's no need. The only thing which can shift the world in the right direction is your resistance; and it doesn't matter how sleight that resistance is.
New EU GM law invites more problems than it solves
The raison d'être of the European Union is the common market. Its latest thinking, however, is heading in a novel direction. It seems that member states can do what they like.

July 2010

Super GM salmon getting nearer
After a ten-year struggle to get GM fish on the menu, super-salmon may be just about here.
Cameron's contradictions
Prime Minister, David Cameron, is making lots of fine promises to be “guided by what people want”, but will that apply if what the people want is a GM-free Britain?
Buying GM-free meat and dairy
Want to buy meat and dairy products from animals fed a GM-free diet? With a little careful shopping around, it's possible.
Big fat lie
The world's increasing population is no doubt a fact. The political manipulation which has turned this fact into an imperative for GM crops is a 'big fat lie'.
Why aren't Americans rejecting GM food? It's disturbingly simple
Are Americans really welcoming with open arms the GM foods bestowed on them by modern science?
Proving the GM pudding
Who has the best grasp of science? Druids, sewage workers or scientists?
GM lobby reduced to insults and mud-slinging, but where's the science?
It's interesting how the insults flung at the public by the pro-GM lobby have become more desperate with time.
Horizontal gene transfer - unlikely or highly likely?
Estimates of the chances that horizontal gene transfer will occur between GM plants and micro-organisms range from 'unlikely' to 'high'. How can scientific evidence provide two such extremely contradictory conclusions?

June 2010

The cult of progress (and how it can be crazy, stupid and destructive)
Progress is a murderous god: one which kills problems. As our prayers to Progress for progress are answered, are we seeing the world dismembered before our eyes?
Huanglongbing and other mothers
Are we curing or causing crop disease? Or, are we just dreaming?
Rigged FSA dialogue
Recent events seem to leave little doubt that our food safety watchdog is holding paws with the biotech industry, and that the chances of it remembering its job is to bark at GM vandals are vanishingly remote.
GM animals suffer
What's scientific research all about? In New Zealand it seems to be about allowing profit to justify animal suffering.
Stressed plants, stressed people
How much stress are we getting directly from our food?
Reality bites Monsanto
What do American farmers really have to say about the GM cotton technologies Monsanto is selling them?
Oil spills and GM technologies: the question is how good are the regulators?
What do the oil industry and the biotech industry have in common? Judging from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, far far too much for comfort.