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Prevent donated blood being sold for profit

12-07-2009 15:55

At present freely donated blood can be sold at a profit by private hospitals.This is news to most donors.Please sign the petion on the Downing Street website calling on the Prime Minister to prevent this

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Leeds Earth First! Meeting

27-02-2009 10:49

Monday 2nd March
7pm @ Common Place
Followed by social in the Angel or wherever people want to go.

THIS IS AN OPEN MEETING

Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser speaks of his battle with GMO giant Monsanto

30-10-2008 12:48

Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer who has been sued by agricultural chemical and biotech giant Monsanto after some of Monsanto's genetically engineered Roundup Ready genes drifted onto his property from neighboring farms and contaminated his crop. Mr. Schmeiser, who is now 70 years old, has traveled the world speaking to a wide variety of audiences about his experience.

This audio was recorded at Lincoln University (23rd Oct '08) during Percys recent UK speaking tour.

What would GM crops mean for Britain? Percy Schmeiser UK tour.

24-10-2008 08:34

International GM campaigner, Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian arable farmer, will talk about his experiences and the implications for UK farmers after his major fight in the courts with food and biotech giant Monsanto.

UK Supermarkets Dump Neurotoxic Aspartame; Japanese Manufacturer Ajinomoto Sues!

16-05-2008 15:23

Can this company truly be so abysmally stupid, uncomprehending of the legal processes, and unaware of the public furor over their ghastly chemical products? World's largest manufacturer of carcinogens, Aspartame & MSG, must accept responsibility for perpetuating decades-long spike in Neurodegenerative Illnesses: Tumors, MS, ALS, Migraines, Seizures, all thoroughly documented by USA FDA

Banner Drops Against Leeds Uni Vivisection

01-04-2008 13:40

THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ACADEMIC ANIMAL RESEARCHERS IN YORKSHIRE.

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SHAC: Leafleting of Staples in Hull

11-02-2008 13:00

Staples are Huntingdon's latest supplier, please help us to inform the public of what goes on inside HLS.

Orang utang in protest outside Ensus H.Q.

31-01-2008 20:54

Demo outside Ensus , in Yarm Teeside took place 31st January to coincide with an International week of action on food sovereignty.

GM Potato trial application by Leeds University

25-01-2008 12:15

Information about an application by Leeds University to run field trials of GM potatoes this year at a farm in Yorkshire

Canada suspends mumps vaccination, fears supply tainted

13-12-2007 20:54

Reuters is reporting from Toronto — Canada suspended use of three batches of a mumps vaccine this week after five people fell ill in the middle of a massive vaccination campaign.

Animal Rights Campaigners to Sue Humberside Police

25-09-2007 20:02

FROM TODAY'S HULL DAILY MAIL

Arrested! anti-GM protest pics

01-07-2007 22:32

Sunday July 1st. Anti-GM campaigns take protest direct to test site in Girton near Cambridge. One protester is arrested scaling the fence erected to protect the GM potato crop and another is arrested later on for alleged criminal damage.

GM Victory! Hull down! One more pota't'go!

15-06-2007 14:39

Following extensive local and national resistance, BASF (the company trialing the GM potatoes), announced last month that they would not be conducting a GM potato trial in Yorkshire this year!

Video - You Plant, We Dig

07-05-2007 10:32

Short video of the April 21st anti-GM rally and picnic that ended with the attempted underplanting of organic potatoes in a field thought to be earmarked for a BASF GM potato crop trial in Hedon near Hull.

8 mins, 19mb, H264 encoded

Hull, rally and protest against GM trials, 21st April 2007

25-04-2007 09:20

A selection of photos of the events of 21st April 2007

Statement from Mutatoes.org and campaigners against Hull’s GM potato trials

24-04-2007 23:58

On Saturday, over 250 people from around the country attended a rally in Hull in a powerful and vibrant display of resistance to the reintroduction of GM crops to the UK.

Mutatoes Rally - GM Spuds-U-Hate

22-04-2007 22:35

Campaigners from Brighton, Cambridge, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester and elsewhere rallied on Saturday 21st April 2007 against the planting of GM potatoes in a BASF trial near Hull.

Protestors plant GM trial site with organic potatoes. (press release)

22-04-2007 18:09

People from all over the country are currently planting organic potatoes in the field proposed as a GM potato trial site outside Hull. It is hoped that the donation of safe spuds will prevent the planting of the controversial crop, which threatens the livelihoods of local borage growers and organic farmers.

Anna Lock explained;
“If you want to eat good safe potatoes, you have to plant good safe potatoes. By planting organic potatoes in this field today, the field will be rendered unsuitable for the GM trial. Scientific experiments need controllable variables, tiny organic seed potatoes hidden deep in the ground are a variable controlled only by nature. These seed potatoes will grow and BASF’s experiment will no longer be possible on this site.”

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Non GM Potatoes planted at Hedon test site

21-04-2007 14:24

Protesters are planting non-GM potatoes in the field near Hull where BASF intend to trial their GM potato variety. About 100 protesters are spread across the large (several acre) field, with two mounted police and 2 foot police standing by watching - not even filming, for once.

Update: 2 cops on off road motorcycles have entered the field.

The Mutatoes Are Coming !!!

16-04-2007 23:40

Everything you ever wanted to know about Frankenspuds, but were afriad to ask.

@ rampART (www.rampart.co.nr) this Tuesday (17th), 8pm
16 rampart street, london E1 2LA

Films and discussion on GM crops trials in the UK and the previously sucessful campaign to stop them. Plus update on the biotech industries latest attempts to push this shit down our throats.

This month a controversial experimental genetically modified potato crop is due to be planted in the UK by the German chemical giant BASF (offshoot of the infamous AG Farben). The trials are the first GM crops to enter British soil in nearly 3 years, after public opposition forced a u-turn in government and corporate plans for patented crops.

The potato trials are a poorly disguised test of public opposition, so to make sure that opposition is adequately expressed, a national rally is taking place on Sat 21st April. Come along, learn about the history of the anti-GM campaign and find out about transport from London. For more info, contact

rally@mutatoes.org (0113 262 9365) or check out the website www.mutatoes.org

Cambridge GM Crop Trial Location Published

16-04-2007 12:13

Defra have published the 6 figure grid reference for the GM Potato trial site near Cambridge.

It is: TL430627

Rally against Frankenspuds, Hull, 21st April

12-04-2007 14:07

Campaigners call for rally against plans to plant genetically modified potatoes in Humberside.

GM Crop Trials - Protest

09-04-2007 09:21

The first GM Crop Trials in years are getting underway in Cambridge. This is widely being viewed as a test of public opinion and if we let these trials go ahead with little or no opposition, more GM trials, and eventually commercial growing will be here before we know it. Please come along and support this protest and keep an eye on our (currently very basic) website -

http://www.cambridgeaction.net/gmconcern

PIA Beagle Death Flights

04-02-2007 21:40

Every week frightened animals are flown through Manchester International
Airport destined for a life of hell. Vivisection breeders and laboratories
alike ship animals in the cargoholds of aeroplanes amongst everyday items,
unbeknown to the passengers above.

2 B&K Shippers Pull! Contact Impex

12-01-2007 03:33

Today NARN received statements from Yusen ASC and LS Express, both of whom
were involved in shipping beagles through Manchester Airport for B&K
Universal. This just shows how effective out campaign against the breeder is
getting, they have now lost 6 animal transporters because of pressure!

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B&K Beagle Shippers - Yusen

08-01-2007 05:18

"We do not expect that the actions of NARN will have any major impact on our company
in 2007" - B&K Spokesperson to Yorkshire Post (03/01/07)

Similar comments were made by Hillgrove, Consort Beagles and Newchurch Farm; all
with the same idea - that they will not be closed down.

LBIA & Vivisection Exports

01-01-2007 21:47

In 2007, we are focusing on the export network of B&K Universal in an aim to cut off
their foreign market. Clients abroad make up approximately 50% of the breeder's
custom and if they were unable to deal with them, B&K Universal would have to close
down. More info can be found at

http://www.narn-online.com/2007

Sabotaged promised as government test public resolve on GM

01-12-2006 12:57

Protesters have pledged to take direct action to sabotage genetically modified crop trials that the government has today given the go ahead for. These trials will be the first GM trials to take place in this country for several years after a sucessful campaign of resistance. The new trial is widely regarded as a test of public resolve before further attempts to introduce genetically modified organisms on a commercial scale to a unwilling public...

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