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8 April 2002 |
While ministers and industry figures have insisted that buffer zones between 50 and 80 metres are sufficient to protect non-GM crops in Scotland, a zone of 200 metres will be used in the Czech Republic |
GM giant accused of double standards |
| "We need to send a message to the Government about how concerned people are" |
Campaign waged to halt GM crop trial |
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6 April 2002 |
"Quist and Chapela's claim that
these transgenes have pervaded the entire native maize genome is unfounded"
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Nature backs off GM crop claims |
| "There is no clear evidence for transfer" |
Plant genes 'cannot transfer to humans' |
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4 April 2002 |
Du Pont and Monsanto have licenced each other’s biotechnology |
GM firms kiss and make up |
| Obrycki's latest unpublished findings suggest that Bt crops do play a role, albeit "relatively minor," in monarch butterfly mortality |
GM risk studies are "ambulance chasing" |
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| If bio-engineered crops now sweep through the two countries, companies will find it hard to find non-GM supplies |
GM-free nations fall to Monsanto |
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28 March 2002 |
His team found transgenic DNA at different
points along the genome
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Corn genes move debate on GMO policy in Americas |
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26 March 2002 |
... for some crops "genetic isolation
will be difficult to maintain" once crops are commercialised
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GM buffer zones 'too small' |
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25 March 2002 |
... an extraordinarily supportive editorial in the Highland News last Thursday labelled him 'a new hero for the Highlands' |
Jailed GM rebel becomes a prisoner of conscience |
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23 March 2002 |
"If we are looking at a 1 per cent cut-off level, it means a farmer can grow a genetically engineered crop next door to another farmer growing a non-GE crop ..." |
Gene flow a canola headache |
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20 March 2002 |
"We can head towards a rural future dominated by powerful GM/chemical corporations ..." |
4000 in bid to stop trials of GM crops |
| "We will not go forward at all simply by reassuring consumers from a scientific viewpoint" |
Geneticist sees worry over GM foods persisting |
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19 March 2002 |
"At the farm scale low levels of gene flow will occur at long distances" |
GM crops pose risk to organic farms |
| "This is a blatant and direct contempt of court" |
Jail for GM crop protester |
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| "It is clear they are scrabbling to find people to take them and the way trials are chosen has to come under close scrutiny" |
Village to host five GM trials |
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15 March 2002 |
The Government expects that there will be six weeks between today’s announcement and sowing of the first seeds |
GM maize trial sites announced |
| "There is still a lot more to be done to resist the onward march of these risky crops to the countryside" |
No GM farm testing in Wales this year |
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| "He had discovered that in the ears of maize grown in Oaxaca, more than 75 per cent had transgenic material" |
GM maize threatens Mexico's landraces |
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14 March 2002 |
The two standard exemption clauses in insurance policies - for damages caused by war or nuclear accidents - have been joined by a third: the dangers posed by GM crops |
Farmers told GM crops are 'Too dangerous to insure' |
| Their demand for a free vote in parliament is still a long way off |
Anti-GM petition wins hearing |
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13 March 2002 |
"Scotland has an opportunity
to declare itself GM free, avoiding future environmental and health problems"
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GM campaign petitions Holyrood for end to trial |
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12 March 2002 |
111 organic farms are close to the 44 fields of GM spring oil seed rape, sugar beet and fodder beet |
Organic farms 'at risk' as GM planting begins Soil
Association |
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10 March 2002 |
"We feel that GMOs have been released into the environment, when it is not clear whether they are safe for the environment" |
Five arrested at GM crop protest |
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