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Research

Monsanto, Big Brother of the New World Agricultural Order:

Related interview:
Monsanto, Big Brother of the New World Agricultural Order:
An interview with Marie-Monique Robin
Truth Out, 27 June 2010:
http://www.truth-out.org/monsanto-big-brother-new-world-agricultural-order-an-interview-with-marie-monique-robin60776?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK:
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO:
Pollution, Corruption and the Control of our Food
An explosive expose of the disurbing practices of [...]

GM-FREE MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCE NOW ON SALE IN 6 UK SUPERMARKET CHAINS

Note:
Ireland’s voluntary GM-free label will enable Irish farmers and food producers a competitive advantage in the UK market. Farming organisations should insist the label is introduced without further delay!
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Top quality produce from livestock whose diet is certified GM-free
Source: [...]

IRISH GOVERNMENT URGED TO REJECT “FAKE EC PROPOSAL FOR GMO-FREE ZONES”

50 organisations say proposal would be impediment to trade
GM-Free Ireland media release, 25 June 2010:
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/press/GMFI49.pdf
DUBLIN  —  50 Irish farming, food and environmental organisations and businesses sent a letter [1]  yesterday to the Irish Agriculture Minister, Brendan [...]

GM GROWERS IN WALES FEAR PUBLIC BACKLASH

Note: There aren’t any GM growers in Wales, and Scotland, and in the 40 English counties which have declared themselves as GMO-free zones. The register would enable contaminated conventional and organic farmers to sue GM farmers for their [...]

LAWMAKERS ASK USDA TO DENY MONSANTO GMO ALFALFA

U.S. lawmakers call for continued ban on biotech alfalfa
Say USDA has “ignored” regulatory authority
Say U.S. organic dairy industry threatened
Related sugarbeet court case delayed

By Carey Gillam
Reuters, 23 June 2010:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2326472520100623
KANSAS CITY, June 23 (Reuters) – More than 50 U.S. [...]

LUXEMBOURG BANS “AMFLORA” GM POTATO!

Greenpeace France, 16 June 2010:
http://ogm.greenpeace.fr/le-luxembourg-interdit-la-pomme-de-terre-ogm-amflora
[Translation courtesy GM-free Ireland]
During the this morning’s “Safety on my plate” conference on the safety of the food chain, Luxembourg’s Health Minister Mars Di Bartolomeo banned the cultivation of BASF’s “Amflora” GM potato in [...]

BULGARIA MOVES TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM GMOS

Health, Novinite, June 16 2010
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=117208

A ban of all genetically modified products and ingredients for preparation of children foods in Bulgaria has been proposed Wednesday in an amendment in the Bulgarian Food Act.
The amendment, proposed by Desislava Taneva, chair [...]

SURVEY: 62% OF CUSTOMERS OF UK SUPERMARKET WANT GM-FREE ANIMAL PRODUCE

Comment by GM-free Ireland: If Irish farmers and food producers had followed our advice to phase out GM animal feed – which we have advocated since 2003 – they would now have a whopping competitive advantage in the [...]

IRISH EXAMINER ARTICLE ON DECLARING IRELAND GM-FREE

Comment from GM-free Ireland

16 June 2010

Not declaring Ireland GM-free ‘gives market boost to competitors’

By Joe Dermody
Irish Examiner – Farming, 16 June 2010
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Comment from GM-free Ireland:

The headline in today’s Irish Examiner farming supplement “Not declaring Ireland GM-free ‘gives market [...]

GM DNA DOES JUMP SPECIES Antibiotic Resistance not the Only Risk

ISIS Report 14/06/10
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMDNA_Does_Jump_Species.php
Dr. Mae Wan Ho corrects some misconceptions about the risks of horizontal gene transfer from GMOs and calls for an urgent review
This report was submitted to EFSA, please circulate widely, keeping the links intact
Antibiotic resistance genes [...]

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