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GM Free Cymru |
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GM Free Cymru is a community pressure group based around Mathry, Pembrokeshire, which campaigns to keep Wales free of genetically-modified crops Grŵp pwyso cymunedol wedi'i leoli yng ngyffiniau
Mathri, Sir Benfro, yw Cymru ddi-GM ac mae'n ymgyrchu i gadw Cymru'n
rhydd o gnydau wedi'u haddasu'n enetig |
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| Open Letter 27th February 2010 | Urgent Scientific and Policy concerns about the new Draft GMO RegulationOn 12th January a Draft GM Regulation was placed onto the WTO website under its conformity assessment procedure, and is due to be brought into law in May of this year. Because of the complex procedures within the EU, this has been done without any consultation with the public, NGOs or consumer groups, and even without discussion among the "competent authorities" who are responsible for GMO risk management in the various countries of the EU. We do not think there has been any discussion within the Parliament either. That causes us very great concern, even though the Commission might have used comitology rules and followed the correct procedures for bringing in an "Implementing Regulation". |
| Press Notice 23rd February 2010 | Commission slammed for illegal GM policy changesScientists from across Europe have today made a formal complaint to the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament on the grounds that the Commission has illegally and unilaterally introduced policy changes in the field of GM crops and food. |
| Open Letter 23rd February 2010 | Formal Protest from Scientists:
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Further reading Added March 3rd |
Genetically modified fetishismhttp://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/ Jonathan Porritt's Blog The assembled great and the good of the National Farmers Union must have been absolutely delighted to hear Chris Smith, Chair of the Environment Agency, extol the benefits of GM technologies earlier in the week. He stressed that he was speaking in a ‘personal capacity’, despite the fact that he was invited as Chair of the Environment Agency, and presumably had plenty to talk about in that capacity which might have been of more immediate interest to farmers. |
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"In decades hence, it would not surprise
me to find historians looking back in horror at the cavalier and
primitive genetic manipulations which we unleashed on an unsuspecting-and
narrow minded-world. The permanent contamination of species with
human-transfered genes is a plague to be avoided." "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing
that ever did".
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