CAMPAIGNS

ASEED Europe is the European Hub of a Global Network committed to environmental and social justice. ASEED has worked since 1992 to highlight the environmental crisis within the corporate led economic globalisation process.

WWW.GM-INFO.ORG.UK
"Find out who's pushing GMOs in your area. Interactive maps of the UK, in-depth briefings plus comprehensive links to action and information sites". Impressive site with lots of information and ideas for action. (This is another project of Corporate Watch who research and disseminate information for campaigning purposes - they also do a magazine with regular articles on GM). 

CAMPAIGN TO BAN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS
Offers information in English, German, Spanish and Swedish and many links worldwide. includes GM news page

FIVE YEAR FREEZE CAMPAIGN
The campaign, of which GFA, its members and over 100 NGOs are members, is calling on the Government for a Five Year Freeze on: Growing genetically engineered crops for any commercial purpose, imports of genetically engineered foods and farm crops and the patenting of genetic resources for food and farm crops.

DIG IT UP
A call to remove GM Oilseed Rape from Britain's countryside.

GREENPEACE TRUE FOOD CAMPAIGN
The Greenpeace booklet 'GM on trial', prepared from the scientific evidence that was used in support of 28 Greenpeace volunteers who were put on trial in Norwich earlier this year for the removal of a GM maize crop, is now available on the web as a PDF file available here.
Greenpeace's guide to GM and GM-free products can be found here.

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
FoE's website highlighting GM issues.

PRIMAL SEEDS
An excellent website which have features on, among other things:
Crop Squatting and Guerilla Gardening. A list of small and farm scale GM testsites in UK, including farm addresses is available here. This is updated regularly from official sources and activist reports. (Please consider writing the farmers themselves a letter to explain your opposition to GM).

THE FOOD COMMISSION
The Food Commission is the UK's leading independent watchdog on food issues.
We have been campaigning for safer, healthier food for over ten years.

ORGANIC CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION (USA) (forrmerly Pure Food Campaign)
An informative US-based site packed with vital knowledge for all real
foodies.
Includes GM Food News Page
and Organic Food News

GENETIC ENGINEERING NETWORK
UK Network of campaigns groups

THE GMO CAMPAIGN
Includes page on GM Animal Feed and on Risks and Hazards of GM Foods

TOTNES GENETICS GROUP
Excellent educational site with up-to-date news and links includes contact list for local GM campaign groups in the UK

WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
WEN campaigns for a freeze on genetic engineering in food and farming. No patenting of genes, plants and animals - NO PATENTS ON LIFE! Biodiversity, biosafety, the right to save seeds and responsible, sustainable farming are central to our campaign

GENETICS FORUM
An independent voice on genetic engineering. Publish SPLICE, a magazine reporting the latest developments in biotechnology.

WOMEN SAY NO TO GMOs

GENEWATCH

 
 

GM FOOD AND ORGANIC FOOD INFORMATION 

HENRY DOUBLEDAY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
Europe's largest organic organisation, specialising in organic gardening and food in the UK, and small scale agriculture in developing countries. Lots of practical 'Grow Your Own' info from one of the world's most respected organic research organisations.

SIMON WRIGHT'S ORGANIC FOOD SITE
This site is designed to help you if you are considering introducing organic food into your manufacturing processes.

SOIL ASSOCIATION
The Soil Association has been at the centre of the fight for safe, healthy food, protection of the environment and policies for sustainable farming and resource use in Britain and worldwide since it's formation in 1946. The SA has always stressed the interconnectedness of all living things: soil, plants, animals and man. Keeping the balance between these elements is only possible if we farm organically.

SUSTAIN (SAFE ALLIANCE)
The Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Environment Alliance exists to unite farmer, environmental, consumer, animal welfare and development organisations. "We share a common vision of food production which is beneficial to the environment, sensitive to consumer demand and the need for global equity, and which produces safe and healthy food in a manner supportive of rural life and culture.

HOW TO AVOID GE FOODS
The consumer group, Nationwide Food Survey, have a website which includes their useful and informative guide. Check it out and pass their website address on to campaigners and environmental groups. This information needs to be spread far and wide!

THE DATA CENTRE - GENETICS
An impressive collection of documents and information from NGO's, scientists the government and campaigns groups.

CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY (USA)

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Statement from the BMA on GM

ONE WORLD WEB
a guide to GM
 

GM: CAN IT FEED THE WORLD? 

Some of the items below are in the articlessection on:  Feeding the world? by Jules Pretty
An important analysis of the need for GE to feed the world by the Director of the Centre for Environment and Society at the University of Essex

GENETIC ENGINEERING: Can it feed the world? by Dr Sue Mayer
(Published as GeneWatch Briefing Number 3, August 1998)

Can GMOs feed the world? Farmers' Link article first published as a chapter in Smart Plants: A Farmers Guide to GMOs in Arable Agriculture

GREED OR NEED? Genetically modified crops Panos Media Briefing No 30A (re-issue) February 1999

Selling Suicide farming, false promises and genetic engineering in developing countriesChristian Aid's recent report

Food? Health? Hope? -- Genetic Engineering and World Hunger CornerHouse Briefing No 10, October 1998: by Sarah Sexton, Nicholas Hildyard and Larry Lohmann

Bioethics: A Third World Issue, by Dr. Vandana Shiva Whose agenda? The corporate takeover of corn in SE Asia  A report researched by BIOTHAI, GRAIN, MASIPAG and PAN Indonesia

The myths of agricultural biotechnology A wide ranging report on GE myths, including feeding the world, by Miguel A. Altieri, University of California, Berkeley

Genetically Engineered Rice Good for PR, Not the Poor Say Southeast Asian Farmers' Groups

Genetic Food Alert 4 Bertram House, Ticklemore St, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5EJ Tel: 01803 868523 info@geneticfoodalert.org.uk