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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
GM-free diet for Iceland livestock5 October 2000
Supermarket chain Iceland has announced that all its livestock for primary meat production is now reared on a non-GM diet.
A new public opinion survey, commissioned by FOE and published today, reveals that 63 per cent of shoppers want supermarkets to drop GM ingredients from animal feeds. Only one in five favour supermarkets stocking products from GM-fed animals.
Most of the UK's leading supermarkets look set to follow Iceland's lead. Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Asda have all said that they are removing GM ingredients from animal feed. Consumer concern has banished GM ingredients from most of our food. But GM soya and maize is still being imported in huge quantities for use in animal feeds. Maize commonly makes up 30-50 per cent of the diet of dairy cattle.
Avoiding GM animal feed would be easier if it was labelled. Since 1999, food eaten by the public has had to be labelled if it contains any GM DNA. But animal feed is exempt. However, last month the Food Standards Agency said that it wants to extend labelling to cover GM animal feed. The issue is also being considered by the EU.
"Congratulations to Iceland. Once again they have taken the initiative on GM food. The public have made it perfectly clear that they do not want shops and supermarkets to rear animals on GM feed," said Friends of the Earth Real Food Campaigner, Pete Riley. "It is time that every supermarket followed Iceland's lead and gave customers what they want."
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