Actions against GMOs and Biotechnology

source http://all4all.org

in Britain, Germany and elsewhere: an action report and many links to more information

Badingen: Freiwillige Feldbefreiung 2006

Britain is GMO free again:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/376722.html

On the night of Friday the 6th of July 2007, a group of activists converged on Britain's only GM trial site just outside Cambridge. They scaled the security fences and destroyed the crop of genetically modified potatoes.

This was the only crop of GM potatoes being grown in the UK, after the chemicals giant BASF abandoned plans for a GM potato trial in Yorkshire this year. There have been multiple protests at the Cambridge site and at the Yorkshire site (where organic potatoes were planted).

However BASF have permission lasting until 2011, so this may not be the end of the story ...

GM - Back on the agenda? (23.08.2006): BASF, a chemical company, has asked for permission to grow the first trial crop of genetically modified (GM) potatoes in the UK. BASF says it hopes GM potatoes could be sold in the UK within 10 years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5277152.stm

April 2007: Cambridge GM potatoes protest:

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2007/04/368056.html

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2007/04/368078.html
Cambridge GM Concern:

http://www.cambridgeaction.net/gmconcern

Action report, Cambridge Evening News:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2007/07/09/187aafb9-66da-418f-8e25-e72fda3d909f.lpf

Background:
What's wrong with GM?:

http://mutatoes.org/b001-whatswrongwithgm.php

South Africa (Nov. 2006):

http://www.freshplaza.com/2006/21nov/2_ie_superspuds.htm
Sabotage promised:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2006/12/357519.html
Talk report: GM Potatoes - Blessing or Blight?

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2007/04/367827.html

Links to Organisations and Initiatives:

Corporate Watch:

http://www.corporatewatch.org
Econexus: tp://www.web-econexus.org
EarthFirst! Action Reports: tp://www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/geneticscrop
Friends of the Earth:

http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food
www.genet-info.org
Genetic Engineering Network:

http://www.geneticsaction.org.uk
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN):

http://www.grain.org
Genewatch UK:

http://www.genewatch.org
GM Free Potatoes (Spud U Hate):

http://www.myspace.com/gmfreepotatoes
GM Freeze:

http://www.gmfreeze.org
GMO-Free Europe:

http://www.gmofree-europe.org
GM Watch:

http://www.gmwatch.org
Greenpeace:

http://www.greenpeace.org
Hedon Against GM:

http://www.hedonagainstgm.org.uk
Indymedia on Biotech:

http://biotech.indymedia.org ?
Mutatoes:

http://mutatoes.org
Percy Schmeiser: