How satisfactory! Monsanto are giving up on attempts to persuade Europeans to grow their GM crops. Opposition has been fierce - not, sadly, in the UK where the government, currently in the person of our Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, …
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The GM debate rages anew – so get involved!
There were some serious ripples of green discontent back in May when all of the major supermarkets declared that it had become too difficult for them to source chickens and eggs that had guaranteeably been fed on non-GM feeds as these foods were now too hard to get – even though …
Fancy ‘Buycott’ing your least favourite foods?
John Scott just alerted me to this piece on the Natural Society site: 'A new free app called ‘Buycott’ allows you to use your Android or iPhone to analyse products and determine if you’re supporting Monsanto’s GMOs, Big Food companies who are damaging your health, or simply …
Supermarkets and moral fibre…
A couple of days ago I received an incandescent-with-fury email berating Sainsbury's and Waitrose for stocking Belvedere Broccoli, a conventionally bred, non-GMO broccoli devloped by the Great Evil One, Monsanto. Now I hold absolutely no brief for Monsanto – I think they …