GM

  • Frankenfood debate lurches back into life

    GENETICALLY MODIFIED crops are on the agenda again as supporters raise fears the EU’s hostility could mean missing out on major benefits.                   Genetically modified food is firmly back on the agenda. After… Read More

  • GM Potatoes ‘blight resistant’

    BRITISH SCIENTISTS have published research revealing a new strain of genetically modified (GM) potatoes has been developed that can resist blight.                   EU approval is now needed before commercial cultivation of the… Read More

  • My Viewpoint: Steve Osborne looks at lab burgers and GM

    IT’S BEEF, but not as we know it. Steve Osborne takes a look at whether the public will see lab burgers in the same light as GM food.                        … Read More

  • Organic farming in the UK at ‘all-time low’

    THE AMOUNT OF land dedicated to organic farming in the UK has been heavily reduced, according to a new Defra study.   Landmass used to grow organic crops and livestock had fallen to 605,329 hectares in 2012, a fifth less… Read More

  • Environment Secretary urges UK to embrace GM

    IN A speech this morning [Thursday 20th June] Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, called for the UK public to back Genetically Modified (GM) crop production, claiming that Europe was falling behind the rest of the world.   Paterson pointed to… Read More

  • Organic growth following horsegate

    SALES OF ORGANIC food are up for the first time in almost four years thanks to the horse meat scandal and fears that chickens are now being fed GM soya.   The latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel reveal organic sales… Read More

  • Food fight: Is there enough GM-free soya for Britain’s poultry farmers

    THE AVAILABILITY of GM-free feed for poultry has been shrouded in mystery and contradictory information. Recently, four supermarkets ditched policies that had been in place for over a decade requiring suppliers to feed poultry 100% GM-free soya. Will foodservice companies now… Read More

  • Too chicken to talk GM?

    RISING PRICES could soon force the poultry industry to reverse its ban on genetically modified feed – but that means a difficult conversation with consumers.   In 2012 the area of land used to grow genetically modified (GM) crops increased… Read More

  • Footprint Forum Report: Holding out for a hero

    IN EUROPE, genetically modified crops have remained in labs while the rest of the world plants more and more. Does the technology need a champion?  It seemed apt that the Footprint Forum to discuss the sensitive issue of genetically modified (GM) crops took… Read More

  • Footprint Forum: GM – Contemptible or Inevitable

    On the 28th of February, members and guests of Footprint Forum gathered at the U.S. Embassy in London to debate GM – Contemptible or Inevitable. The objective of this session was to remove polarised subjectivity from the debate and frame… Read More