"All that is necessary for
evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729 -1797) Live GM-related Newsfeeds* updating
automatically - see below HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS GM CONCERN Dedicated to educating the inventor
of the "Finnie Farm" , the once and only Lib Dem accountant & part-time
Minister For Rural Contamination - Ross Finnie 13/3/01 BBCThe
Royal Society to test for gene transfer from GM food to humans. (Aren't they the eminent scientists who told
us it was perfectly safe, and got Dr Pusztai fired?) Alastair:
Tell Tony to say "Pants" to George Dubya and his biotech pals.- Nick Ross: Stay
home - you'll only make it worse if you go in to work.- Alastair
"The corporate take over is
here and threatening the foundations of democratic government" We mourn the death of Liberal
Democracy in Charles Kennedy's own constituency...fine words, no result.
The clock is ticking to Election
Day, but this crop will flower and blight the Black Isle & it's economy
two weeks earlier.
Highland Council calls for complete
moratorium on GM tests
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to see the articles ! UK: Tesco and Asda act to
phase out meat and dairy products from farm animals
fed on GM crops ! Herbicide Resistance is Out of Control say
Canola Farmers STAR LINK
Alternative News for Farmers STAR LINK
BREAKING NEWS 25/1/01 - GM ? NEIN DANKE ! - BERLIN BANS
GM
FIELD TRIALS Italy,France, Hungary call on U.S. for GM
segregation - so they can avoid it! (30/1/2001) Not fit for pigs - Bosnians spurn 40,000 tonnes
of donated US GM corn ! Japan, Algeria, Egypt & Saudi Arabia ban
US GM imports British & Scottish Governments have heads
in sand to avoid seeing the light, unlike algeria,australia,bosnia,brazil,canada,egypt,france,germany,greece,hungary,
ireland,italy,,japan,korea,new zealand,saudi arabia,etc etc
EMINENT GM SCIENTIST DR ARPAD PUSZTAI
ADDRESSED INVERNESS MEETING28TH
FEB
CAMPAIGN UPDATE
Our campaign continues to gather both pace
and force, to have consent for the Field Scale Trial of GM oilseed rape
at Rhives
Farm, Munlochy
rescinded by the Scottish Executive.
Our aim remains to persuade the regulatory
authorities that the risks which this GM release poses to the Highland
environment and to our agricultural economy are too great for the trial
to be allowed to continue. We will continue to insist that the precautionary
principle demands that government consent for the trial should be withdrawn,
and that as a consequence the crop should be destroyed before it comes
into flower next spring.
URGENT !
Please print out the Campaign
Support form on this web site to register y our own support
of the campaign. Please pass other copies to other likely supporters
in your circle, who might be interested in helping us.
What else can you do ?
Write to any or as many of the following as
you have the stamina for, recording your own personal objections to the
release of GMOs in the Highland environment and calling for consent for
the Munlochy trial to be rescinded.
Scottish Executive All MSPs can be contacted by post at :-
The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1 SP
or by e-mail to:- firstname.lastname.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Rural Affairs Minister, Ross Finnie MSP Scottish First Minister, Henry McLeish
MSP
Scottish Parliament Members of the Rural Affairs Committee at
Scottish Parliament:- Alex Johnstone MSP; Elaine Murray MSP; Fergus
Ewing MSP; Alex Fergusson MSP; Rhoda Grant MSP; Duncan
Hamilton MSP; Richard Lochhead MSP; Des McNulty MSP; John
Munro MSP; Cathie Peattie MSP; Mike Rumbles MSP
Highland MSPs
:- Winnie Ewing MSP; Fergus Ewing MSP; Rhoda
Grant MSP; Duncan Hamilton MSP; Jamie McGrigor
MSP; Maureen Macmillan MSP; Alasdair Morrison MSP; John Munro MSP; Peter
Peacock MSP; Mary Scanlon MSP; Tavish Scott MSP; Jamie
Stone MSP; Jim Wallace MSP;
Westminster Charles Kennedy MP -
a particularly important target given the forthcoming UK election, and
his potential to bring pressure to bear on fellow
Liberal Democrat, Ross Finnie Westminster MP s should be adddressed at :-
House of Commons Westminster LONDON
UK Minister of Agriculture - Nick Brown MP
UK Environment Minister - Michael Meacher MP
Highland Councillors
- please write to your local councillor drawing
attention to the seminar on GM crops being run by the Land & Environment
committee of Highland Council in January 2001, and also encouraging HC
to continue lobbying for suspension of the current GM trial programme to
AEBC when they come to Inverness to take evidence in the spring
Local Press If you've any stamina left please write to
the letters page of local papers over the festive season to keep the media
profile of the GM issue high over the holidays, when people have
a bit more time than usual to read the papers.
Supermarkets Continue lobbying the big supermarkets, either
at the customer service desk or by letter, pressing them to remove GM ingredients
from the food chain of their own brand meat, poultry and dairy products.
Headline 25th January 2002:
Lord Mandelson appointed GM Czar - "The Farmers
Friend, The Family's Guardian."
Rumours that Prime Minister Campbell refers to
him as "Mein Frankenfuehrer" remain unconfirmed.
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