Cambridge GM Crop Trial — meeting (2nd April) & protest walk (14th April)

7.30 pm Mon­day 2nd April
Emmanuel Unit­ed Reform Church, Trump­ing­ton St.

Speak­ers:
Michael Anto­niou, read­er in Mol­e­c­u­lar Genet­ics at Guy’s Hos­pi­tal Med­ical School
Hele­na Paul, chair of GM Freeze
Clare Oxbor­row, Real Food Cam­paign, Nation­al Friends of the Earth

Tri­als of GM pota­toes have been giv­en the go-ahead to be plant­ed from March 30th, at the Nation­al Insti­tute of Agri­cul­tur­al Botany (NIAB) in North Cam­bridge, on behalf of multi­na­tion­al firm BASF.

These are the first GM crop tri­al in Eng­land in the last three years.
If they go ahead unop­posed it gives a green light to the biotech indus­try to push for fur­ther tri­als.

Sim­i­lar tri­als in The Nether­lands were recent­ly stopped in the courts due to a lack of con­trolled test­ing and
envi­ron­men­tal impact assess­ments. A recent appli­ca­tion for tri­als in Ire­land was can­celled after a pub­lic cam­paign
and the set­ting of strict con­di­tions by the Irish gov­ern­ment.

This meet­ing aims to empow­er peo­ple with more knowl­edge of the GM debate.

Organ­ised by Cam­bridge GM Con­cern
e‑mail gmfreecambridge@lists.riseup.net

A fur­ther date for your diary: there will be a Protest Walk on Sat­ur­day 14th April at the site of the tri­als. Details will be post­ed on Cam­bridge Indy­media short­ly.