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SGR’s main focus in this area is on the possible problems of genetically modified (GM) crops. We are concerned that there may be significant and irreversible impacts on the environment and on animal and human health from the introduction of these crops. We are also concerned about the degree of control that the biotechnology industry exerts over the scientific research and regulation in this area, and about the increasing control of the food chain held by a small number of multinational corporations.
GM
Crops in Wales? - Letter by Dr Eva Novotny to Mr Carwyn Jones, AM,
Minister for Environment, Planning and Countryside (September 2006)
SGR
submission to the consultation on GM co-existence - Submission by Dr Eva
Novotny to the Consultation on proposals for managing the coexistence of GM,
conventional and organic crops (July 2006)
Abolition of the AEBC - Letter to Margaret Beckett, MP, by Dr Eva Novotny (March)
To The Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley In Support of Tenure for Ignacio Chapela - Letter by Dr Eva Novotny and Dr Stuart Parkinson (January)
Comment on UK's assessment report to market Monsanto's GM maize cross NK603 x MON810 in Europe - Comment by Dr Eva Novotny for submission to a public consultation (April)
Gavin Devine, Clerk of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Letter by Dr Eva Novotny for the House of Commons Sub-committee on 'GM Planting Regime (April)
The Decision on Commercial Growing of GM Maize - Article by Dr Eva Novotny and Dr Stuart Parkinson (March)
Winners and Losers in the GM Debate - Briefing for the London Assembly - Presentation given by Dr Eva Novotny (February)
Letter to Mrs Beckett MP - New Evidence of Long-Range Pollination by Maize (February)
Letter to Mrs Beckett MP - Proposed EU Seed Directive (December)
Letter to Mr Howarth MP requesting that he use his Private Member’s Bill to initiate legislation on Contamination and Liability (December)
Letter to the Prime Minister in response to an open letter to the Prime Minister from 114 biotechnology scientists (November)
SGR Response and Annexe to the GM Science Review – First Report (October/November) [PDF versions are also available]
Letter to MEPs Vende and Kalb on GM Contamination and Organic Agriculture (September)
Collection of articles stating the case against GM, newly updated (September)
Letter to Lake District National Parks Authority advising against allowing GM crops to be grown (July)
The Case Against GM Crops - web version of an article published in the Cambridge Evening News (June)
Letter to Brazilian
Ministers Re: Decision on growing of GM crops in Brazil (March)
This letter urges Brazilian ministers not to allow the growing of GM crops
in their country.
Letter
to Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) Re: Organic Farming Targets
Scotland Bill (February)
This letter outlines the main arguments of the environmental and
health benefits of organic farming and urges MSPs to vote in favour of the Bill.
Although the vote was lost, Scotland is to have an Organic Action Plan.
Letter to Sir Peter Lacham, in response to a radio interview (February) Re: Problems with GM crops
Letter to Professor Patrick Bateson, Royal Society, in response to a radio interview (December) Re: Problems with GM crops
SGR
report for Scottish Parliamentary Health and Community Care Committee (November)
Re: Human health concerns of GM agriculture
This report outlines some of the arguments against GM agriculture
from a human-health perspective and was submitted to the investigation being
carried out by this Committee.
Letter to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on imminent legislation (June): Labelling and traceability of GM foods
Listing
of Chardon LL (a GM forage maize) on the national seed list, thereby permitting
commercial growing in the UK: Evidence presented to the Chardon LL Hearing (April
2000 and May 2002) (This material will be added to the website as it becomes
ready.)
Five reports (presented to the oral hearing in May 2002) and
a written report (April 2000) argue that the forage maize Chardon LL should
not be approved for commercial agriculture in the UK, for a range of environmental,
animal- and human-health reasons. The evidence presented has important implications
for GM agriculture beyond this single crop. Report III describes original SGR
research.
Letter
to MSPs on the Petitions Committee at the Scottish Parliament, concerning
the farm-scale trials of GM oilseed rape at Munlochy, Scotland (March 2002).
Essentially the same letter was sent to Ross Finnie MSP and MSPs on the Transport
and Environment Committee (April)
These letters summarise the submission to the Scottish Parliament [below].
Submission
to the Scottish Parliament concerning the farm-scale trials of GM oilseed
rape at Munlochy, Scotland (March)
This submission contains many of the environmental arguments against
GM agriculture.
Letter
to Scottish Education Minister (Nov 2001) Re: Pro-GM bias in material for
Scottish schools
Protest against proposal to place before Scottish schoolchildren an issue
of the magazine Your World
Report to the Royal Society (April 2001), ‘Risks to Health from the Consumption of Genetically Modified Foods’
Letter
to Scientific Steering Committee (May 2001) Re: Danger of proposed GM farm-scale
trial to organic research centre (HDRA)
Following lobbying by SGR and other organisations, the Government agreed
to withdraw the trial
SGR Position Statement on Genetically Modified Foodstuffs (June 1999)
‘Genetics and Ethics’ SGR Conference report 1998, including presentations by Dr Mae Wan Ho & Prof Derek Burke
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