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A Genetically Modified Proposal

An Irish farmer’s plea for access to technology in agriculture.
Jim McCarthy
Forbes [USA], 26 October 2009

Comment from GM-free Ireland

27 October 2009

A Genetically Modified Proposal
• An Irish farmer’s plea for access to [...]

Risk Reloaded:
• Risk analysis of genetically engineered plants within the European Union

Download: http://bit.ly/49mSxC
A report by Testbiotech e.V.
Institute for Independent Impact Assessment in Biotechnology www.testbiotech.org
October 2009
Christoph Then, Christof Potthof
Editing: Andrea Reiche

•UN General Assembly to discuss patents on seeds and right to food No Patents on Seeds, 21 October 2009:
http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org
Today a global alert is being filed by farmers and development and environmental organisations warning about a [...]

Please vote online today for Ireland to be designated as a GMO-free biosafety reserve for Europe (follow guidelines below). The deadline is 11pm GMT, Wednesday 28 October.
Launched at the Food and Democracy conference in Switzerland [...]

Seán Mac Connell
Irish Times, 26 October 2009:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1026/1224257457439.html
MICE ARE coming to the rescue of the beef industry which has been hit hard by falling consumption across Europe because of the recession, young farmers meeting in Cork [...]

Michael Miklis in Piltown, Kilkenny, initiated this project. Suffice it is to say that Michael, over the years, has returned to production an irreplaceable Irish resource. More Irish native varieties are being tracked down worldwide. [...]

Comment by GM-free Ireland:
Declan O’Brien’s article “Farmers need a clearer plan for GM crops” in today’s Independent (see below) dumbs down its subject and frames it negatively: “here is a problem rather than an opportunity, [...]

Note: see comments below from GM Watch and GM-free Ireland
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The European seed industry yesterday (2 March) called on the European Commission to come up with a “long-awaited” proposal for thresholds to label the accidental presence [...]