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UK Bio-technology Newswire Archive

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Bristol Blockade of Sainsburys Depot: GM and Farming are the issue!

02-07-2004 14:12

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At 11am, as part of a national blockade, a coalition of farmers and anti-GM activists blockaded the Bristol Sainsburys main distribution depot in a protest against both GM-Animal feed in the food chain and the company's treatment of small farmers.

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Pictures of Merseyside blockade

02-07-2004 12:04

Sorry about fuzzines!
Some low-light level pictures of the blocade at Merseyside.

One choice comment came from employee who suggested that people from Manchester were not local and therefore had no right to protest there despite his far from local depot supplying to shops as far away as Leeds and Lancaster.

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Sainsbury's London Depot Blockaded

02-07-2004 09:07

Anti-GM protestors shut down Sainsbury's vast state-of-the-art distribution centre at Waltham Point in north London last night. Lorries were turned away and protestors locked on to the main gates and used a steel arm tube ring to block deliveries and departures.

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Sainsbury's Rotherham depot blockaded

02-07-2004 04:50

saisbury's south yorkshire distribution center, Rotherham, successfully blockaded for nearly 6 hours by santa up his tripod and his merry elves.

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Sainsbury's Merseyside Depot Blocked

02-07-2004 04:16

A successful, 4 hour, no arrest, no equipment lost blockade with plenty of support from Sainsbury's packers and drivers...protesting CM crop fed milk in Sainsbury's.

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Sainsburys blockaded nationally!

01-07-2004 23:41

Sainsburys chilled food distribution centres are blockaded across the country in protest against GM feed being fed to dairy cows.

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engineered bt soil virus in commercial use

28-06-2004 19:16

it has come to my attention that certain products are available pesticide free and are sold near to and next to organic produce... it has become clear that in some cases these products are maintain and grown with the use of genetically modified bt soil virus's. a batch of them were registered back in 94 and i am sure others have been registerd since. i understand that many were not employed until 97 or later.

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Corporate giants who poison and pollute also control "policy"

28-06-2004 02:26

A Warning to the ME/CFS Community
Margaret Williams

27th June 2004

It is a matter of record that there is mounting awareness and concern over
the increasing manipulation of science and medicine by global corporations
with vested interests which now amounts to a stranglehold.

It seems that this corporate control extends not only to a corrupted peer
review process that results in a biased view being presented to the medical
community by compliant or ineffectual editors of medical journals, but the
US government now insists that scientists must be politically approved
before the scientists can participate in meetings of the World Health
Organisation.

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GM Foods - Unpublished study casts doubt on food safety

14-06-2004 13:05

Press release from Friends of the Earth Europe

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Protesting BIO 2004 in San Francisco

12-06-2004 20:48

An account of the June 8th protest at the biotech convention in San Francisco, California

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Bio-Chip Implants

12-06-2004 16:26

A few months ago I posted the article below. It received a mixed reception but some commeted that the idea was the creation of a paranoid conspiracy theorist's mind.

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Follow up protests on Critical Art Ensemble Arrest

10-06-2004 11:03

PROTEST TO DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE INVESTIGATION OF STEVE KURTZ
AND THE CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE

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Your Life as a Human Test Subject

05-06-2004 02:31

Secret Nwo Technology (Hardy har har) to control and hurt you...

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Stop-Inghams-Ge.org: Email In, Fax In and Phone In Day: 28th of May (Tommorow)

27-05-2004 07:14

On Friday the 28th of May (Tommorow), GE Free activists and supporters of
a GE Free Aotearoa/New Zealand are invited to join in an email, fax and
phone in day to help  http://www.Stop-Inghams-GE.org/.

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Canadian Supreme Court Tramples Farmers' Rights

25-05-2004 09:49

Civil society and farmers' organizations worldwide reacted with
outrage to today's 5-4 decision by the Canadian Supreme Court,
affirming Monsanto's right to prosecute farmers who are found to have
GM crops growing on their land - whether they wanted them or not.

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56 windows broken in "goodbye" Bayer action

24-05-2004 15:37

A (belated) action report from the Stop Bayer GM campaign.

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another Bayer Stay Out Action

17-05-2004 11:00

another report of an action against Bayer to warn them against continuing with GM crops:
see manila indymedia for a report of a Bayer action in the Philippines.

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Another GM Victory - Monsanto Drop GM Wheat

11-05-2004 09:36

The world's first genetically modified wheat is to be shelved because of consumer resistance.

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Syngenta and Monsanto drop GM sugar beet

06-05-2004 15:34


Earlier this year Syngenta and Monsanto withdrew both their GM sugar beet varieties Pacific and Sturgeon from the UK national seed listing process . Late this spring it became apparent that they were conducting no UK field trials of GM sugarbeet in this growing season . Now Syngenta and Monsanto have gone the whole hog and have withdrawn their application for EU part C marketing consent for Event #77 (aka T9100152) sugar beet the GM line upon which both Pacific and Sturgeon are based.

This leaves only Bayer CropScience’s GM herbicide tolerant oilseed rape MS8xRF3 still in the running for potential commercialisation in the UK.

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/287108.html
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/287034.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289302.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289238.html

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2 more Bayer actions

01-05-2004 11:38

There have been reports of more actions to send notice to Bayer, just before their AGM, that if they DO continue to push GM crops in the UK they will be hit again.
Here are the first 2 reports in.
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