GM Watch Podcasts
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A few weeks ago GM Watch started producing podcasts: audiofiles with interviews and reports on GM issues, adding another dimension to their excellent email list on - to say it in their own words - "the use of hype, propaganda and spin to promote this technology, and on exposing the role played by corporate-friendly scientists, industry front groups, PR companies, lobbyists, and political groups."

02 July 2006 How pro-GM lobbyists promote the GM agenda
25 June 2006 Illegal GM crops in Brazil and China
19 June 2006 GM pharmaceutical crops; Monsanto's GM rBGH
11 June 2006 Feeding the world and biotech PR; Doubts about drugs
5 June 2006 GM Cotton in India, worrying new research on GM Corn
1 June 2006 watching genetic modification around the world
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Landmark Victory in World's First Case Against Biopiracy!!
IFOAM, RFSTE, The Greens/EFA

Munich, March 8, 2005. In a landmark decision today, the European Patent Office upheld a decision to revoke in its entirety a patent on a fungicidal product derived from seeds of the Neem, a tree indigenous to the Indian subcontinent.

[ Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology | The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament | International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) ]

Direct Action Blockades Against GM
IMC UK

At 3am on Saturday 26th February, a coalition of environmentalists used direct action to blockade Sainsbury's huge regional distribution centre at Emerson's Green, causing disruption to Sainsbury's retail supply across the South-West and beyond. Braving sub-zero temperatures and snow, campaigners blockaded the entrance to the depot, locking themselves together for three hours with steel tubes. There were six arrests.

[ Full Story | IMC UK ]

Berlin Manifesto for GMO-free Regions and Biodiversity in Europe
GENET, Foundation Future Farming...

European Conference, Berlin 22 -23 January 2005 - The Regions of Europe should be given the final say on the growing of genetically modified crops (GMOs) in their area, a major European conference today concluded.The conference, organised during the International Green Week in Berlin, heard that with over 100 regional and 3500 sub-regional areas now declaring themselves GMO-free, it was time for European law to be changed to protect such areas from the cultivation of GM crops. 200 delegates from GMO free regions and from 30 European countries called on the European institutions to protect conventional and organic seeds from GMO contamination, to establish the regions right to stay GMO-free and to give them a say in the approval process of GMOs, which they find scientifically questionable and not based on the precautionary principle.

[ NGO Network on Genetic Engineering | Foundation on Future Farming ]