BBC Panorama: Cultivating Lies and Ignorance Around GMOs

I’ve seen a lot of really crappy TV programmes about GMOs over the years. I’ve read so-called ‘news’ stories that were blatantly re-written press releases, and so essentially advertisements for the biotech industry. My expectations of the media in this regard, are now so low I can’t usually be surprised. But watching the BBC Panorama […]

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Mixing it Up at the GMO Free Regions Conference

I had a great time in Berlin at the recent GMO Free Regions conference this month. I was there representing my campaigning group Beyond GM. Participants from political circles, economists, scientists and civil society from all over Europe, as well as guests from America, Asia and Africa met and had many discussions and workshops about building […]

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The Twisted ‘Truth’ About GMOs

We were fortunate enough at Beyond GM to facilitate the press launch of the book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth.

The book is written by US attorney Steven Druker and features a foreword by the renowned primatologist Dame Jane Goodall (pictured with myself and colleague Fran Price, left).

The book is the result of more than 15 years of intensive research and investigation by Druker stands as an important history lesson in GMOs. Druker, came to prominence for initiating a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that forced it to divulge its files on GM foods. Those files revealed that GM foods first achieved commercialisation in 1992 only because the FDA:

• Covered up the extensive warnings of its own scientists about their dangers.
• Lied about the facts.
• And then violated federal food safety law by permitting these foods to be marketed without having been proven safe through standard testing.

You can read more about the event and the book on the Beyond GM site.

Oxford Real Farming Conference 2015

I’ll be speaking at this years Oxford Real Farming conference, January 7, 2015.

This will be my group Beyond GM’s debut at the conference and we’ll be talking about some or our early successes at engaging public support.

From the event programme:

It was public pressure which kept GMOs out of the UK in the late nineties. In the last decade, however, the issue has slipped off the public, media and political agenda. Now with the stakes higher than ever, how do we reach out to the general public and mobilise them to speak out before it’s too late. In this session, Beyond GM’s, Pat Thomas, GM Freeze’s, Liz O’Neill and GEN’s, Jim McNulty, join chair, Francesca Price, to discuss GM campaigning in 2014. What can each of us do to keep GM out of the UK? Hitting home the message: Peter Kindersley will highlight the key issues about GM and alternatives that citizens need to know and show how he is getting the message to his customers.

I’ll also be chairing a session on the New Science of GMOs as well. Hope to see you there!