GM Campaign
Why we do not need GM omega 3 plants
In a blaze of publicity Rothamstead (24/1/14) has announced an application to grow an open air crop of Camelina Sativa engineered with synthetic omega 3 genes that trigger the production of the fish oil in the seeds of the harvested … Continue reading
Why Owen Paterson is wrong to back GM crops
It was back in 1999 that GM crops burst onto the farming scene — and into the public conscience —- with herbicide tolerant plants and insecticide producing plants and the promise of much more to come in the near future. For … Continue reading
GM wheat in the UK? No thanks!
In the next few weeks a GM wheat trial will be sown in Hertfordshire by Rothamsted Research – the first such UK GM trial in over a decade – against a background of market rejection of GM wheat which has … Continue reading
Debate: “Farmers should have the choice to grow and consumers the choice to eat GM foods”
Presentation at the John Innes Centre to the motion “Farmers should have the choice to grow and consumers the choice to eat GM foods” It’s been a number of years since I debated the issue of choice. The last time … Continue reading
Brazil: the availability of GM-free soybeans
The following article was published in the Family Farm Defenders magazine in 2007 Peter Lundgren visited the Imcopa GM free soy plant at Araucaria , Parana as part of a trip to Brazil looking at the future availability of … Continue reading
Biopharming – the modification of food plants for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes.
Published in Farmers Weekly I discuss the use of food crops as a host for novel GM traits – including using food plants as factories to produce complex molecules for the industrial and pharmaceutical industries. Talking Point: Biopharm crops. The UK government must decide … Continue reading
Public Acceptance of GM Foods
Public acceptance of GM foods – a Lincolnshire farmer’s perspective Background Farmers have mortgages, overdrafts, bank managers and families to support. Farming is experiencing the most difficult trading conditions in living memory – no doubt it will improve soon but … Continue reading