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Links to the complete stories are available through the link at the bottom. These are stories posted on the Soil Association website.
"A fresh wave of genetically modified crops is to be planted in the countryside this year as the Government increases its support for the technology. Leeds University, where a successful trial was carried out last year, is to apply for a licence for a field trial of GM potatoes. Meanwhile the National Institute of Agricultural Botany wants to plant GM crops on a demonstration farm as part of a drive to improve public understanding of the latest developments in plant breeding.
The Daily Telegraph (11 Jan, p.10)
Soil Association comment: GM is not going to feed a growing world population sustainably, now or in the future. We need far-reaching changes to our food and farming systems, rather than GM technology, which, despite millions in public and private research expenditure, has consistently failed to deliver food benefits. Open field trials can threaten the right of individual farmers to produce GM-free food. In the US, use of open air research into GM crops has come under increasing criticism. Field trials of several new GM crops have been subject to federal court cases. In each case the court ruled that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had broken the law in granting the trials approval without adequate safety data.
Read the full press release here
Chief scientist insists he was misquoted on GM
Professor John Beddington, Chief scientific adviser to the government, writes: Your article (Britain must launch GM food revolution) misrepresents my position and my paper at the Oxford Farming Conference. The paper makes no mention of GM and I have not said that Britain must launch a GM food revolution GM technology is not something that should be simply accepted or rejected.
The Guardian (9 Jan, p.33)
Is this the end of food as we know it?
Bee Wilson comments on the Governments Food 2030 report and the dire state of our food supplies. She notes some of the positive statements in the report but writes, very little in the report suggests that this dying Labour government is going to take any serious steps to make the necessary renaissance in British farming come aboutThere is a pointed lack of any mention of organic food. The report blethers about such things as the "milk roadmap" and the "fruit and vegetable task force". But there is no serious new injection of either money or laws to aid farmers.
Daily Telegraph (10 Jan)
http://www.soilassociation.org/News...ID/259/reftab/258/t/Today-s-News/Default.aspx
"A fresh wave of genetically modified crops is to be planted in the countryside this year as the Government increases its support for the technology. Leeds University, where a successful trial was carried out last year, is to apply for a licence for a field trial of GM potatoes. Meanwhile the National Institute of Agricultural Botany wants to plant GM crops on a demonstration farm as part of a drive to improve public understanding of the latest developments in plant breeding.
The Daily Telegraph (11 Jan, p.10)
Soil Association comment: GM is not going to feed a growing world population sustainably, now or in the future. We need far-reaching changes to our food and farming systems, rather than GM technology, which, despite millions in public and private research expenditure, has consistently failed to deliver food benefits. Open field trials can threaten the right of individual farmers to produce GM-free food. In the US, use of open air research into GM crops has come under increasing criticism. Field trials of several new GM crops have been subject to federal court cases. In each case the court ruled that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had broken the law in granting the trials approval without adequate safety data.
Read the full press release here
Chief scientist insists he was misquoted on GM
Professor John Beddington, Chief scientific adviser to the government, writes: Your article (Britain must launch GM food revolution) misrepresents my position and my paper at the Oxford Farming Conference. The paper makes no mention of GM and I have not said that Britain must launch a GM food revolution GM technology is not something that should be simply accepted or rejected.
The Guardian (9 Jan, p.33)
Is this the end of food as we know it?
Bee Wilson comments on the Governments Food 2030 report and the dire state of our food supplies. She notes some of the positive statements in the report but writes, very little in the report suggests that this dying Labour government is going to take any serious steps to make the necessary renaissance in British farming come aboutThere is a pointed lack of any mention of organic food. The report blethers about such things as the "milk roadmap" and the "fruit and vegetable task force". But there is no serious new injection of either money or laws to aid farmers.
Daily Telegraph (10 Jan)
http://www.soilassociation.org/News...ID/259/reftab/258/t/Today-s-News/Default.aspx
