The late Labour MP fought both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on environmental policies, writes John Vidal, standing up for climate and access to countryside, and against GMO crops and road building. Radical to the end, he was one of the few MPs to support Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
… Michael Meacher: an environment minister who stood up for his beliefs John Vidal the Guardian Environment | 22nd October 2015 Comment … MP fought both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on environmental policies, writes John Vidal, …
A new biosafety report for the Norwegian Environment Agency says GM foods cannot be declared safe due to major gaps in the science, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indeed research clearly indicates harmful and adverse impacts to both health and environment. But Monsanto insists that GMOs are just as safe as, or even safer than, conventional crops.
… A new biosafety report for the Norwegian Environment Agency says GM foods cannot be … and adverse impacts to both health and environment. But Monsanto insists that GMOs … report was commissioned by the Norwegian Environment Agency and completed last year, …
We have a new European Commission - so what does it mean for the environment, GMOs and trade negotiations? Lawrence Woodward can't help feeling that the best part of the package is Commission President Juncker himself. Now, will his 'team' pull together and work to deliver his vision? We can't quite count on it.
… Commission - so what does it mean for the environment, GMOs and trade negotiations? … incumbents of the key posts in agriculture, environment, health and food safety, energy … to the safety of the food we eat and the environment in which we live." More good news …
Canadian has approved production of GM Atlantic salmon eggs. Conservation NGOs cry foul - and fear for the future of the species.
… Atlantic salmon eggs - a move condemned by environment watchers as an alarming decision … that positions Canada as the source of global environmental risk. The Environment Canada approval, published this …
The EU's Environment Council voted today to devolve GMO decisions to member states - in effect allowing pro-GM governments to go ahead. This messy compromise threatens to allow GMO corporations to ride roughshod over Europe.
… Law Politics gm-corn-horror-cut.jpg The EU's Environment Council voted today to devolve GMO … roughshod over Europe. The European Union Environment Council today voted to allow … is under the control of the strongly pro-GM environment Secretary Owen Paterson. Two …
Groups representing over 5 million Nigerians are resisting Monsanto's attempt to introduce GM maize and cotton, writes Vanessa Amaral-Rogers. With growing evidence of harm to human health and environment, and failing GM crops in other countries, they say Monsanto's applications must be refused.
… growing evidence of harm to human health and environment, and failing GM crops in other … Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) for the environmental release and placing in the … groups have cited numerous serious health and environmental concerns and the failure of …
The UK Government is desperate to get planting GM crops - and could get its way as soon as 2015. Now environment groups warn: our wildlife will suffer - and just as demand for 'GMO-free' food is soaring.
… - and could get its way as soon as 2015. Now environment groups warn: our wildlife will … as demand for 'GMO-free' food is soaring. Environment groups have called on the Prime … Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to condemn Environment Secretary Owen Paterson's support …
While the Gates Foundation and conservative politicians are bigging up GMOs and agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter, a quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
… It is essential in terms of our health, the environment and sustainability and not least … to feed the world. For example, the former UK environment minister Owen Paterson flew to … GM crops are essential, are better for the environment and will provide the tools that …
Europe is likely to become ''the museum of world farming'' because of the failure to embrace GMOs, UK environment secretary Owen Paterson said today. Fiona Harvey reports ...
… because of the failure to embrace GMOs, UK environment secretary Owen Paterson said … Europe if farmers shut doors to GM crops, the environment secretary told the Oxford Farming … crops could benefit farmers, consumers, the environment and the economy. He warned …
Seventeen or more secret applications have been made to India's GMO regulators for trials and release of GM crops including rice, wheat, chickpeas, brinjal and mustard, write Colin Todhunter & Oliver Tickell. In a violation of the law regulators have released no information about the applications, raising fears that India's first GMOs will be released with no health, safety or environmental testing.
… will be released with no health, safety or environmental testing. A secret application … The GEAC, part of the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, is the … The final decision rests with the Union environment, forests and climate change …
A broad community of independent scientific researchers and scholars challenges claims of a 'consensus' that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are 'safe' to grow and eat. The claims - which continue to be widely and often uncritically aired - are a false and artificial construct that have been misleadingly perpetuated through diverse media.
… internal circle of stakeholders. The health, environment, and agriculture authorities of … the health of humans, animals, and the environment. Science and society do not … European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility [7]. There is no …
The Government is preparing 'rules' that will enable the planting of GM crops in the UK as soon as 2017, writes Lawrence Woodward. A ministerial letter also signals a significant weakening of GMO safeguards compared to the Tories' 2010 manifesto. Now is the time to exert maximum pressure and fight off a planned GMO invasion.
… GM genes into nearby fields and the wider environment - undermining his later statement … to campaign group Beyond GM from junior environment minister Lord de Mauley, in … in the UK food chain, and to reduce environmental damage." But at least Labour …
The EU is considering the exclusion of gene-edited plants and animals from GM regulations, write Janet Cotter & Ricarda Steinbrecher. However gene-edited organisms clearly fall within the definition of GMOs in both European and international law. They also present real risks to the environment and human health - and must be regulated like any other GMOs.
… law. They also present real risks to the environment and human health - and must be … process, and these can affect food and environmental safety. These effects can … GM organisms, requiring them to undergo an environmental and health risk assessment …
Monsanto was accused of 'crimes against humanity and the environment' at COP21 in Paris this week, writes Pavlos Georgiadis. And now the evidence against it is being gathered for presentation at a 'Monsanto Tribunal' taking place next October in The Hague.
… accused of 'crimes against humanity and the environment' at COP21 in Paris this week, … an alliance of organic, food sovereignty and environmental groups. "Monsanto promotes an … is warranted to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable …
As the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations enter their last few days, Ellen Brown exposes their real purpose - corporate control of the world's food, health, environment and financial systems. Of all these, the greatest is food ...
… control of the world's food, health, environment and financial systems. Of all … over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be … has also done serious damage to the environment. According to an October 2012 …
No matter how concerned we are about the quality of food we and our families eat, we can be sure governments are putting corporate profit first, writes Sally Beare. But we - Mums in particular - still have our power as consumers to push supermarkets and other retailers into going GM-free and keeping toxic agrochemicals out of the food chain. Let's use it!
… Let's use it! We are a group of mothers and environmental campaigners who aim to keep GMOs … entering our food chain, bodies, and environment in this country - or, you might … effects of GM products on health, the environment and on our food system as a whole, …
A coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups are suing the FDA for its 'unlawful' approval of Aquabounty's GM salmon, as it relied on treating the fish as an 'animal drug' under a 1938 law, and ignored serious risks to wild salmon and fishing communities.
… A coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups are suing the FDA for its … and fishing communities. A coalition of environmental, consumer, and commercial and … also highlights FDA's failure to protect the environment and consult wildlife agencies in …
After 40,000 Facebook posts on General Mills Facebook page demanding GM-free Cheerios, the company announces - 'original' Cheerios contain no GM ingredients.
… use only non-GMO pure cane sugar." Health and environment concerns The campaign kicked off … GM-free owing to concerns over health and environment. Cheerios are a top selling cereal …
A coalition of farmer and public interest groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for unlawfully approving the use of Monsanto's highly toxic herbicide dicamba on its dicamba-resistant GMO soybeans and cotton, without consulting wildlife and fisheries agencies.
… and public interest groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for unlawfully … have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) … have abandoned the interests of farmers, the environment, and public health" , said George …
The mainstream British media have long acted as cheerleaders for GMOs, but none quite so much as The Times and its disgraced correspondent Matt Ridley, writes Colin Todhunter. His most recent article on the topic is a strange concoction of misrepresentations, falsehoods and blunders dressed up as science, and reflects both his ignorance of the real facts and his deep ideological commitment to corporate profit and power.
… or safer, and are certainly better for the environment, than conventionally bred crops. … GM crops will be even safer, better for the environment and better for human health. He … was Michael A. Gallo, emeritus professor of environmental and occupational medicine at …
As the UK Prime Minister welcomes the recommendations of his science advisors to 'go it alone' in Europe and embrace GMO crops, Pat Thomas wonders - whatever happened to the Precautionary Principle?
… to know where someone stands on health and environment there can be few better barometers … to safety. Last October a barely-noticed Environment Committee report for Parliament … powers to sue EU states that enact health or environmental laws breaching their 'legitimate …
A recent scientific study found the same long-chain omega-3 oils that are engineered into a new GM Camelina oilseed variety make butterflies grow up with deformed wings, writes Claire Robinson. Attempts by the 'pro-science' non-scientist Mark Lynas to discredit the study are a mixture of ignorance, research failures, 'straw man' arguments and outright errors.
… do not feed on seeds in their native environment." But according to scientific … prior to the release of the crops in the open environment. 4. Straw man 1: Making up a … acids that are "normally found in aquatic environments" . So is the GM omega-3-producing …
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
… mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health. Administrator Gina McCarthy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 … and researchers are writing to urge the US Environmental Protection Agency not to …
The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new 'gene editing' techniques as non-GM - in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
… exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing. The European Commission … the US wants the EU to drop health and environmental safeguards on GMOs to pave the … are supposed to protect public health and the environment. The regulation of new GM …