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  Farmers protest over genetically modified crops in Delhi         


Author: Old Codger
Date: May 12, 2008 11:10

The lie about GM is that it will help the poorer countries. Yet even
they don't want it!

http://tinyurl.com/6zx4qz

Farmers protest over genetically modified crops in Delhi
May 6th, 2008 - 9:27 pm ICT by admin - Email This Post

New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): Farmers from different parts of the country on
Tuesday demonstrated at the Jantar Mantar on Parliament street over
the use of genetically modified crops in the country.

Organised by Coalition for a GM-free India, the protesting farmers
demanded that the genetically modified technology should be banned in
the country, as it was against the Indian farmers interest.

Protestors said that with the spread of genetically modified (GM)
crops, farmers rights could be seized in the name of the Intellectual
Property Rights and patents.
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  No vets need apply         


Author: Pat Gardiner
Date: May 12, 2008 05:50

Pat's Note:

You have to chuckle at their arrogance and crass stupidity.

By the time the currant animal/human health crisis is over, they won't
dare put Veterinary Surgeon on their passports, let alone on their
apploication for self-stacking jobs.

To think that the taxpayer is paying for this expamnsion of a
discredited badly run science that tolerates and encourages the faking
of results....and endangers human health on a massive scale.

Puff and nonsense

http://media-newswire.com/release_1066291.html

Considering a career in veterinary science?

The School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at The University of
Nottingham has joined a campaign to encourage students from all walks
of life to consider a career in veterinary science. The pioneering
veterinary school, officially opened by Her Royal Highness the
Princess Royal just over a year ago, has joined forces with six out of
the country's seven veterinary schools in a campaign to encourage
people from different walks of life to study veterinary science.
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  Benn gives go-ahead for new GM potato trial - protests by environmentalists and local farmers.         


Author: Old Codger
Date: May 12, 2008 01:20

Independent.co.uk
Benn gives go-ahead for new GM potato trial
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 11 May 2008

http://tinyurl.com/5wlebl
Ministers have given permission for thousands of GM potatoes to be
grown in Britain, a decision that is bound to provoke a new
confrontation with environmentalists.

Hilary Benn, the Secretary of State for the Environment , has agreed
to let scientists at Leeds University cultivate the potato, which has
been engineered to resist eelworm, in a trial over the next three
years in a test field near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. The GM Freeze
protest group is considering taking legal action.

The move follows repeated clashes over a different experimental GM
potato, modified against blight, in Britain last year. Trials had to
be abandoned following protests by environmentalists and local
farmers.
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