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- More GM crops set for Wales
- 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
More GM crops set for Wales13 June 2000
More GM farm scale trials may be grown in Wales. Friends of the Earth has obtained an application (dated 11 May) from seed company Aventis to grow winter oil seed rape in England later this year which says "we will also be applying for consents for Scotland and Wales". Aventis is the company behind the controversial GM maize trial in Flintshire.
Should an application come forward from Aventis the Assembly could use its powers to deny the request. Last month the Assembly unanimously approved a motion calling for Wales to have a GM-free policy. The policy allows the Assembly - subject to legal safeguards - to reject applications for experimental releases of GM crops in Wales, unless it is confident that the release cannot damage the Welsh environment.
Friends of the Earth Cymru Real Food Campaigner Raoul Bhambral said: "It is astonishing that this seed company is prepared to grow more GM crops in Wales, despite widespread public opposition. The Welsh Assembly must stand up for Welsh interests and use its powers to reject any application. GM crops threaten the environment and the livelihoods of neighbouring farmers and beekeepers. Wales would be better served by keeping these crops out of the country and helping to supply the growing market for GM-free food."
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