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Gerald Miles

Organic farmer & GM activist

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What would you do to protest about GM crops being planted in Britain? Just sit there? Or get on your tractor and drive to London in protest.

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Websites

GM Free Cymru
GM Free Cymru is an alliance of farmers, environmentalists, and other individuals who seek to use non-violent democratic means to keep Wales free of GM crops.
GM Freeze
The campaign on GM food, crops and patents.
GMWatch
Keep up to date with the latest news on the issue of genetically modified (GM) food and crops.
Seeds of Deception
What the biotech industry doesn't want you to know.
GM-free Ireland
Keeping the island of Ireland off-limits to the environmental release of genetically modified organisms.

Books

Seeds of Deception
Author: Jeffery M. Smith
Description: This book reveals the dangerous gamble, which genetically modified food takes our health.
ISBN: 1920769080
The World is not for sale
Author: Jose Bove and Francis Dufour
Description: In this lively and hard-hitting book Bove, and Francois Dufour, recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against MacDonald's and examine the issues behind the resulting campaign, which has now stretched from France and Seattle around the world.
ISBN: 1859844057
Slow Food Nation
Author: Carlo Petrini
Description: Emphasising the use of natural, organic, and healthy ingredients, the author explains how we can conserve natural biodiversity and protect fading agricultural practices that are threatened by mass consumerism, by implementing the culinary traditions of the native peoples of diverse regions around the world.
ISBN: 0847829456
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Author: Louis Fischer
Description: This is a biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948).
ISBN: 0006388876
Genetic Roulette
Author: Jeffery M. Smith
Description: Genetic Roulette is an excellent, authoritative book which brings together all the information we have to date on genetically modified crops and food.
ISBN: 0972966528

Organisations

GM Free Cymru
GM Free Cymru is a community pressure group based around Mathry, Pembrokeshire, which campaigns to keep Wales free of genetically-modified crops.
GM Freeze
The GM Freeze campaign is supported by an alliance of organisations sharing the public's deep concern over the speed at which genetic engineering is being introduced into food and farming.
Genetic Engineering Network
The Genetic Engineering Network is a network of people opposed to the imposition of GM technology.
The Institute of Science in Society
The Institute of Science in Society is a not for profit organisation dedicated to providing critical and accessible scientific information to the public and to promoting social accountability and ecological sustainability in science.
GMWatch
GMWatch is an independent organisation, founded in 1998, which seeks to counter the enormous corporate political power and propaganda of the biotech industry.
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