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- 2000
- Advanta admits separation distances in UK far closer than Canada
- Advanta to pay up
- Britain's babies back baby food ban
- Buy it from farmers' markets
- Buy your festive feast from local farmers
- Cadbury's admits its chocolate contains lindane
- Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds
- Children get raw deal from Government
- Euro MPs fail GM Test
- Farm scale trials must be called off
- First UK organic beer festival held in Birmingham
- FOE responds to Prince Philip's confidence about GM foods
- Food Standards Agency could do better
- GM farm scale trial is useless
- GM farm scale trials threaten UK honey
- GM farmers pull out of trials
- GM scientist deserves sack says Friends of the Earth
- GM trials are a farce
- Government gambling with countryside
- Government in chaos over GM seeds
- Government in shambles over GM mistake
- Government prepares to decide commercial approval for GM crops before trial ends
- Government proposes to trash GM trials
- Hormone disrupting chemicals found in baby food
- Iceland to stock organic food at non-organic prices
- Illegal GM ingredients found in supermarkets
- Lindane is banned - nearly
- More GM crops set for Wales
- MPs debate new law on GM liability
- New fears over impact of GM crops on birdlife
- Public wants pesticides banned from supermarket food
- Scientists slam GM research
- Supermarket Real Food sham
- Top insurer says no to GM pollution cover
- Wales can ban GM
- Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM
- Aventis criticised by Government barrister
- Baby Blair greeted with hamper of Real Food
- Biosafety Protocol Agreed
- Biotech giant clams up at GM Seed List Hearing
- Call for pesticide tax
- Church advisers say no to GM crop trials
- Diners still worry about GM food
- FOE slams Krebs over organic food
- GM contamination inevitable admits Meacher
- GM food scare hits US taco lovers
- GM seed fiasco means farmers start to dig up crops
- GM-free diet for Iceland livestock
- Government GM policy in tatters
- Government set to give go-ahead to commercial licensing
- Hold on the milk says top scientist
- Kiss of death for GM seed
- Pesticides level rise in fruit AND veg
- Promising green speech from Blair?
- Shock admission that GM crops are already growing in the UK
- Supermarkets back organic farming bill
Government proposes to trash GM trials23 August 2000
In a bizarre twist, the Government today admitted that they may order the de-flowering of GM crops involved in the farm scale trials for winter oilseed rape.
In announcing that the approval for the GM winter oilseed rape farm-scale trials, the Government has admitted that certain non GM varieties which are more susceptible to cross pollination will require extra protection. They may order that pollination of the GM crops be prevented next spring.
The Government has also failed to heed the warnings about the cross pollination of crops by GM crops following the contamination of oilseed rape seed in Canada and is to push ahead with the GM farm-scale trials for winter oilseed rape without accepting the need for massive separation distance to neighbouring crops.
"The farm scale trials have become a joke. The Government has condemned people for cutting down crops to protect neighbouring farmers and yet they now suggest that they may do it themselves," said Friends of the Earth Real Food Campaigner Pete Riley. "The time has come to abandon the trials because its obvious the chances that GM crops will ever be able to be grown commercially without causing real economic damage to neighbouring arable farmers and beekeepers are next to none."
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