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GM: Time for a More Nuanced Debate

Green Futures | Posted 09.04.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Procurement, Health, Agriculture, Gm, GM Crops, Science, UK Environment, GM Food, UK Tech News
Green Futures

What is a person with a conscience to think about the fraught and complex issue of genetic modification (GM)? Picking sides used to be easy: if you were green, you were against GM because it was unnatural and industrial.

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My War Against GM Crops

Michael Hart | Posted 24.03.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Stop the Crop, European Union, Roundup Herbicide, Brussels, Corporate-Europe-Observatory, GM Crops, Friends of the Earth, Farmers, UK Impact, Video, UK Tech News
Michael Hart

When herbicide-tolerant crops were first introduced the promise was that they would mean less herbicide use and so have less environmental impact and lower cost to the farmer for weed control. But herbicide use is back to where it had been before GM crops were introduced.

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'Opposition To GM Is Complete Nonsense'

PA | Posted 10.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Environment, Genetically Modified Food, UK News, GM Crops, Owen Paterson, UK Politics News

Genetically modified food should be grown and sold widely in Britain and opponents of the technology are talking "humbug", according to the environmen...

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'One Is Not Meddling' (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Chris York | Posted 17.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Dumfries House, Prince Charles, Andrew Ritchie, UK News, Edzard Ernst, GM Crops, Slideshow, Chelsea Barracks, Pictures, Salmon Fishing, Mcdonalds, UK News

Serial meddler, Prince Charles, has apparently been at it again. The Telegraph has reported that the Prince wrote a dozen letters to former BBC Dir...

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Has Cannabis Been Secretly Genetically Modified to Render it More Dangerous?

Dr Raj Persaud | Posted 21.09.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Cannabis, War on Drugs, Eva Rausing, Drug Trade, Rausing, GM Crops, Leaglise Drugs, UK Politics News
Dr Raj Persaud

Is it not possible that many families would find it easier to confront the problems of drug abuse and be more likely to obtain medical help, if there wasn't the taboo associated with criminalising these substances?

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£6.4m GM Grant Awarded To Scientists

PA | Posted 15.07.2012 | UK
Read More: John Innes Centre, Science, UK News, GM Food, Gates Foundation, GM Crops, UK News

British scientists have won a £6.4 million grant to develop GM crops - one of the largest single investments into genetic modification in the UK. ...

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A Clear Emergency - Every 30 Minutes an Indian Farmer Commits Suicide

Rita Pal | Posted 05.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Paul Marsden, Indian Farming, GM Seeds, Mental Health, Indian Farmer Suicide, High Suicide Rates in Indian Farmers, Indian Psychiatry, GM Crops, Mental Health Stigma, Indian Government, UK News
Rita Pal

Indian farmers are committing suicide at a rapid rate. Despite protests, their voice appears to be unheard by those in the corridors of power.

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Plan Bee: Bumblebee That 'Vanished' 24 Years Ago To Come Back

PA | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Flowers, Bees, Cross-Pollination, Pollination, UK Environment, Crops, GM Crops, UK News

A bumblebee which vanished from the English countryside almost a quarter of a century ago has been reintroduced. Around 100 short-haired bumblebees...

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Field Of Nightmares? GM Crop Trial Protesters Gather

PA | Posted 27.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Hertfordshire, Science, Wheat, Police, UK Environment, Rothamsted Research, GM Crops, UK News

Hundreds of anti-GM protesters gathered near a scientific research centre on Sunday where a genetically modified wheat crop is being grown. Members...

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'Don't Destroy Our GM Crops' Scientists Plead To Protesters

Posted 03.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Video, Genitally Modified Crops, UK News, GM Crops, Gm, Food, Gerald Miles, Professor John Pickett, Rothamsted Research, UK News

Scientists are pleading with protestors not to destroy an experiment on genetically modified crops, which they say could reduce the amount of chemical...

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