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GMOs

Genetically Mutated Organisms / Genetic Engineering

Due to the short time to respond to the governments 'public consultation' on contamination, these pages on GM are being created and amended probably as you read them.

Please refer back here during the next few weeks for continous updates and amendments.

Thank you for your concern.

 Background 
  • A rough guide to some genetic engineering history and terminology.
 Biodiveristy Loss 
  • Despite twenty years of development in the US, the worlds largest field trials to assess environmental impact were carried out in the UK, but still only testing three crops.
 Financial Liabilities 
  • If your crops get contaminated by pollen from GM crops, can the GM copyright owner claim a Technology fee or take your crop?
 Food Contamination 
  • How much contamination in your food will you be happy with?
  • What level of contamination should warrant a label saying 'GM product'?
  • Should food be labelled to say they are contaminated by only 0.1%?
  • Well this is being decided by the government soon.
  • The deadline for response is 20th October, 2006 : and you though you had a say!!
 Monsanto 
  • Manufacturers and distributors of chemical poisons on a Global scale. {Agent Orange, DDT, Dioxins, PCBs}
  • Providers of the ways and means to kill off whole habitats of flora and associated fauna.
  • Now generating self-replicating mutant plants to indiscriminatley colonise agricultural land, your garden and your food


Warning bio-hazard from Genetic contamination Due to the urgency of the issue as there is a related public consultation under way, this topic will be updated regularly for the foreseable future.
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