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- Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM
- 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
Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM 29 March 2000
Welsh Agriculture Secretary Christine Gwyther has ignored a recommendation from the Assembly's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee and supported inclusion of a key genetically modified (GM) crop on the National Seed List. This decision paves the way for commercial licensing of GM crops for growing in the UK.
Gwyther has u-turned on her previous stated opposition to GM food and allowed listing of the maize. FOE has said that it will "pursue every possible avenue" to overturn her decision. It is calling on all Assembly members to pursue their rights as citizens of Wales to object to Gwyther's decision and call for a public hearing on the listing.
"We are deeply disappointed by Ms Gwyther's decision. It is an abject surrender to pressure from Downing Street. The Assembly gave a clear no to listing the Aventis maize. FOE proved that Wales had the power to say no. Public opinion in Wales clearly supported us. But Ms Gwyther has done the dirty deed on behalf of London politicians and the biotech industry, despite her previous clear statements in support of a GM free Wales," said Raoul Bhambral of Friends of the Earth Cymru.
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