GM Free Cambridge
On Monday 2nd April there was a public meeting regarding the forthcoming NIAB/BASF trial of GM potatoes in the Cambridge area. Some fifty people turned up for the event, which featured three speakers, who had travelled up from London for the occasion: Michael Antoniou is a Reader in Molecular Genetics at Guy's Hospital Medical School, Helena Paul is the chair of GM Freeze, and Clare Oxborrow is from the Real Food Campaign organized by Friends of the Earth.
On Saturday 14th April we then organised a successful protest walk with a very respectable turnout and good media coverage, [1], [2]
On the night of July 6th, the crops were pulled out and the UK was once again GM free!
Defra have published the 6 figure grid reference for the GM Potato trial site near Cambridge.
It is: TL430627
You can see the Defra document here
You can see a google map of the site here
Useful links
Mutatoes
Hedon Against GM
Myspace GM free potatoes
GM Free Ireland
George Monbiot article archive on GM
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
"What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist in terms of quantity..."