Take the flour back!
Sunday 27th May 2012

Public day of action against the Rothamsted genetically modified wheat trial.

 

Bak­ers, farm­ers, grow­ers, allot­ment hold­ers, sci­en­tists, bee­keep­ers, and peo­ple who eat food are turn­ing out to voice their oppo­si­tion to GM crops com­ing back to the UK.
Meet Sun­day 27th May, at 12 noon, in Rotham­st­ed, Harp­en­den, Herts. Or take your own action in your own way, at your own time. Togeth­er we can stop this tri­al.

Cow genes on toast anyone? No thanks!

What’s up with the tri­al?

It could be dangerous

This tri­al is test­ing a brand-new syn­thet­i­cal­ly-con­struct­ed ‘fake’ gene that is ‘most sim­i­lar to one found in a cow’. This is the first use of syn­thet­ic genes in the UK, and a con­cern­ing use of ani­mal genes in plants.

It’s not wanted

Even Amer­i­ca has aban­doned attempts to com­mer­cialise GM wheat because there is no mar­ket for it. Biotech com­pa­ny BASF recent­ly backed out of Europe because no-one want­ed to buy GM food.

Once it flowers, it’s here to stay

The tri­al is hap­pen­ing in the open air, mean­ing that when it starts to flower it can cross con­t­a­m­i­nate oth­er wheat crops and wild grass­es. This is a real threat. In Cana­da there is no organ­ic oilseed rape left because all the farms have been cross-con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed with GM rape.

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