Take the Flour Back! Mass action against GM wheat — meetup point announced

 

 

Meet-up point: Rotham­st­ed Park, Harp­en­den, Herts (30 mins from Lon­don by train) 12 noon on 27th May. At 1.30pm we’ll take a 20 minute stroll on pub­lic foot­paths to the tri­al site.

Fre­quent trains run from Lon­don to Harp­en­den – the jour­ney takes 30 mins from St Pan­cras. A ten minute walk from Harp­en­den Sta­tion gets you to the park. Direc­tions avail­able at the sta­tion.

Check back to our web­site for legal brief­in­gs near­er the time.

 

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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!

 

 

 

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

 

Even the USA 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.

 

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 rape­seed.

 

For more info near­er the time, go to www.taketheflourback.org or con­tact us at info [AT] taketheflourback.org