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Was 2009 the year the world turned against GM?
Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews
11th January, 2010
Despite promising the world in 2009, biotech corporations have increasingly raised the hackles of scientists and citizens worldwide more...Million Belay: Ethiopia doesn’t need or want Bill Gates
Tom Levitt
16th November, 2009
Ecological campaigner Million Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he opposes the intervention of philanthropists like Bill Gates more...Call for publicly funded research into GM crops
Ecologist
20th October, 2009
Technologies to increase agricultural productivity will allow the UK to help feed the world, says Royal Society report more...Killing fields: the true cost of Europe's cheap meat
Andrew Wasley
13th October, 2009
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence more...Growing concern
Pat Thomas
1st November, 2008
Genetically modified food. It’s a big issue. Increasingly, we are handed the notion that GM food is just like any other food, only better, because of its almost magical power to solve our most immediate crises of poverty, hunger, fossil-fuel depletion and climate change. more...10 reasons why GM won't feed the world
Mark Anslow
1st March, 2008
Genetic modification can't deliver a safe, secure future food supply. Here's why... more...Biotech lobbies against environmental protection laws
News
26th September, 2007
The GM industry is lobbying against EU directive which would make polluters pay for damage caused to biodiversity and Sites of Special Scientific Interest, a leading protester has revealed. more...GM set to make comeback
News
18th September, 2007
The impact of climate change on world food production will make the public more accepting of genetic modification, the industry believes. more...GM now organic
News
13th June, 2007
Organic food can now contain almost 1 per cent genetically modified content, thanks to a new ruling by the EU. more...Government committee wants to see more GM crops
News
4th May, 2007
A government committee has suggested that ministers and policy makers look more favourably upon genetically modified (GM) crops if they can be shown to have an environmental benefit. more...GM mosquito tipped to fight malaria
News
20th March, 2007
A genetically modified mosquito is being hailed as the route to tackling malaria, a disease which kills more than one million people every year. more...Report shows organic better than GM
News
15th March, 2007
A report released by Friends of the Earth yesterday shows that ‘environment-friendly’ farming - including organics - creates more jobs, uses fewer resources and is more profitable than farming using genetically modified (GM) crops. more...
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Dolly's long goodbye
Jonathan Matthews
15th February, 2007
Four years since the death of Dolly the cloned sheep, her legacy very much lives on... more...Monsanto: A checkered history
Brian Tokar
1st September, 1998
Is Monsanto the “clean and green” company its advertisements promote, or is the new image merely a product of clever public relations?more...