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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Urgent Scientific and Policy concerns about the new Draft GMO Regulation

On 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".

Commission slammed for illegal GM policy changes

Scientists 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.

Formal Protest from Scientists:
Commission Regulation on Implementing Rules for GM applications and assessments

We write to you as a group of concerned European scientists. Purely by chance, we have found a new Draft EC Regulation on the WTO web site, and we respectfully ask you
(a) to take this as a formal protest relating to the content of that regulation, and
(b) to bring this protest to the attention of the full Parliament at the earliest opportunity.

Further reading

Added March 3rd

Genetically modified fetishism

http://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.

"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."
Dr Marc Lappe( 1943-2005)
Comments made when he was unable to attend
Globalisation & Food Production - Safety, Ethics and Health in 2000

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever did".
Margaret Mead 1901 - 1978