Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

UK Bio-technology Newswire Archive

Full article | 2 comments

The Independent Science Panel on GM Final Report

03-06-2003 09:40

The Case for a GM-free Sustainable World, calling for a ban on GM crops to make way for all forms of sustainable agriculture. This authoritative report, billed as "the strongest, most complete dossier of evidence" ever compiled on the problems and hazards of GM crops as well as the manifold benefits of sustainable agriculture, is being finalised for release 15 June 2003.

Full article | 4 comments

GM Nation?

03-06-2003 09:33

'GM Nation?', the governments so-called public debate on GM food, is being launched today (3rd June).

You probably haven't heard much about this because the government hasn't put aside much money for this exercise and probably doesn't actually want you to get involved...

Full article

WALES GM Consultation, Please attend

02-06-2003 20:10

Govt 'Consultation' on GM

Full article

Poodle wants to chew GM labelsPoodle wants to chew GM label

02-06-2003 07:54

The leaked memos in the Sunday Times article below make totally transparent the basis of the UK government's strategy on GMOs - pleasing Washington!
What the article fails to make clear though is the steps the government has already taken to serve Washington's......
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-699255,00.html

Full article

Buying consent: How corporations manipulate the GM debate

01-06-2003 22:37

Alan Simpson (Labour backbench MP) explains how corporations are taking control of the world's food supply for the benefit of the bosses back home.

Full article

GM Crops Family Tree

29-05-2003 15:52

As 3 corporations, Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, push for the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, Corporate Watch brings you the biotech family tree. The family tree shows the complex tangle of name changes, spin-offs, joint ventures and acquisitions woven by the biotech industry during 10 years of rapid expansion, consolidation and crisis.

Full article | 3 comments

Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop field

19-05-2003 16:44

Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop field

Full article | 5 comments

UK Government plans to force GM products on citizens

19-05-2003 08:25

Conformation of the government's concept of particapatory democracy. Freedom to dissent quietly then submit. Whatever happened to a die-hard belief in market forces? Supply and Demand anyone?

Full article | 1 comment

ITS GM WAR! USA to use WTO to force EU to eat GMO!

13-05-2003 18:42

IT'S WAR!!!Today (13 May 2002), the US Trade representative has announced that WTO proceedings will start to force the EU to abandon its moratorium on new GM products. American multinational corporation Monsanto has long been pushing for this move, but the US Govt. wanted to get the invasion of Iraq over before antagonising the world even further.

Full article

Launch of Independent Science Panel on GMOs

08-05-2003 20:16

Independent Science Panel for a GM-Free Sustainable World
In a surprising move, dozens of prominent scientists have joined forces to form an Independent Science Panel (ISP) on GM, to counteract what they see to be a concerted campaign by the government and the scientific establishment in the UK to promote GM under the guise of _sound_ science.

Full article | 3 comments

Bayer Action Video (low bandwidth)

02-05-2003 11:10

7 minute edit of the Bayer Action on the 25th April.
It's a DivX AVI file - approx 5.5mb.

Full article | 2 comments

Bayer Blockade Activists Court News

02-05-2003 10:56

Last tuesday, 28th April, those arrested at the Bayer Blockade on the 25th, appeared in court in Cambridge...

Full article | 9 comments

BAYER CROPSCIENCE BLOCKADE

28-04-2003 09:30

Further details of blockade at Bayer Cropscience UK HQ....

Full article | 8 comments

Corona virus genetic engineering and the origin of SARS

27-04-2003 03:15

None of the early reports have acknowledged the large body of reports on the genetic manipulation of Corona viruses in the laboratory nor have they considered the possibility that the unique virus arose as a laboratory accident or purposeful experiment. I have searched out a number of studies on the genetic manipulation of Corona viruses and describe a few such studies below.

Full article | 3 comments

Bayer CropScience Blockade

25-04-2003 16:26

Anti GM crops activists blockade UK HQ of GM crops company Bayer CropScience

Full article | 1 comment

Bayer hit by AGM protests in UK and Germany

25-04-2003 13:41

Bayer Cropscience's UK HQ has today been blockaded by activists. Simultaneously, British anti-GM activists disrupted Bayer's AGM in Köln, Germany. Here's an account of the German end of things.

Full article | 1 comment

GM protest trio win their appeal

29-03-2003 08:01

A LEADING environmentalist has won an appeal against a criminal conviction for his part in a GM crop protest. Mark Ballard, 31, the national secretary of the Scottish Green Party and a Scottish Parliament candidate, was fined £125 after a trial in 2001.

Full article

Biotechnology Newswire March 18

19-03-2003 04:34

Greetings!
The following stories and events were posted to the www.neRAGE.org on the biotechnology newswire over the last 7 days. You too can post, comment, and search for some of the latest information on biotechnology. Stop by, add your stories, read, add events to our calendar and more!

Full article | 3 comments

GM activists not guilty

10-03-2003 15:32

GM activists get let off again.

Full article

Biotechnology Newswire March 10

10-03-2003 15:08

Nearly 40 Vermont towns, from Brattleboro north to Bakersfield, voted at Town Meeting this week for resolutions opposing the genetic engineering (GE) of food and crops. As of 10:30 PM Tuesday evening, 37 have supported their resolutions, 4 have tabled the issue and 3 voted against it. A total of 69 Vermont towns have now gone on record against GE foods, beginning in 2000.
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.