South Gloucestershire votes to go GM-free27 February 2003
South Gloucestershire Council has voted to go GM-free, becoming the largest local authority to call for GM-free status so far. Councillors at the unitary authority voted following a long session in favour of a motion put forward by Councillor Peter Tyzack (Lib Dem) to declare South Gloucestershire a GM-free zone, to seek to ensure no GM crops are grown on council controlled land, and to strengthen their GM-free policy for all goods and services within their responsibility. They also voted to call on the Secretary of State to resist pressure to allow further development for the commercialisation of GM crops in this country.
"Calls for a GM-free Britain are growing; local authorities up and down the country are looking at similar motions to the one passed in South Gloucestershire to protect their food, farming and wildlife from GM pollution. People throughout the country have made it clear that they do not want to eat GM food or have GM crops grown in their areas - it is time for the Government to listen," said Real Food Campaigner Clare Oxborrow.
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