Tesco anti-GM action

16.4.11
We had a suc­cess­ful Anti-GM action this past week­end (the first in Lon­don in a long time).

Regard­ing GM ani­mal feed Tesco has said (2010) “Unfor­tu­nate­ly, because of the vast amount of prod­ucts we sell, and the turn around on them, we do not have a spe­cif­ic list of prod­ucts that come from ani­mals that have not been fed on GM feed.” So basi­cal­ly, any stuff that’s not organ­ic could be GM. Let’s go and tell the cus­tomers!

We went into a TESCO in Hack­ney and put stick­ers on all the meat and dairy. The stick­ers said said “Tesco can­not guar­an­tee you that this meat or dairy prod­uct is GM free.

For more infor­ma­tion on genet­ic mod­i­fi­ca­tion in ani­mal feed see www.stopgm.org.uk”. We then got dressed in white suits in the store that said “bio­haz­ard” and passed out infor­ma­tion to cus­tomers about ani­mal feed. We also went after GM oil (KTC brand) with stick­ers. Big jugs of it are sold for chip­pies and small restau­rants. We wan­dered around the store dressed like out­er space hand­ing out leaflets for a half an hour before the secu­ri­ty final­ly asked us to leave. We then set up a table out­side and con­tin­ued to pass out infor­ma­tion.

It was all sur­pris­ing­ly easy. If any­one wants a copy of the stick­ers we can send them on to you.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/geneticmodification/8393880/Shoppers-kept-in-dark-over-GM-ingredients.html

More pho­tos and video at http://ungm.posterous.com/