Latest news |
 Let's
take the GM-free high roadEngraved on our sceptre, the ever-present
symbol of sovereignty in the Scottish parliament at Holyrood, are
Scotland's tenets: compassion, integrity, justice and wisdom. Let's
hope these sentiments are applied, above all, to our food: compassion
to livestock and to the environment, integrity at all stages of
production, justice for farmers, and wisdom from farm to fork.
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 An explosion looking for a place to happenWe
take a look at four major warnings of the potential for unexpected
harmful qualities to emerge in GM food over the years, and the
inadequate assessment procedures used to 'check' its safety.
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 GM
- more spin less scienceWe assess one of the fundamental problems of
the GM issue. GM is a branch of chemistry treated as biology. It's a
reductionist technology which produces organisms of unknown, unstudied
and unpredictable biology. These mystery organisms are going to become
part of you and of your environment. |
 The
alliance for abundant spinIn all our recent 'conspiracy theory'
articles biotech industry pressure has been very little in evidence. In
fact, apart from twisting our Environment Minister's arm (behind closed
doors until the newspapers got wind of it), and Syngenta giving a pep
talk to farmers courtesy of the BBC, there's been nothing to report...
until now. |
GM-free Scotland
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