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The first signs of brain-damage from GM food? Hounding Sainsbury

The case of David Sainsbury purports to be about ethical rigour. Because he has connections with genetically modified food, it is said he has no proper place as science minister in the government. GM food is certainly a proper object for deep national concern. And Lord Sainsbury certainly has connections. But the fury around him exposes something different. What we discover is that there are at least four perversities in the present obligatory rule-book for ministerial conduct.

By Hugo Young18 Feb

Unmodified views on GM

I have been e-mailing major food manufacturers to try to ascertain which of their products are free of genetically modified organisms and whether they will produce GM-free variants. Labelling is a first step, but what I really want is a meaningful choice. Labelling gives me information; alternative GM-free products give me choice (and well done Kelloggs and Heinz for giving me that choice).

18 Feb

Firms fined for breaching GM crop regulations

Two companies were today fined for failing to prevent pollen from genetically modified crops from being released into the environment.

From the Press Association17 Feb

Dr Evil and his Moneymen: we're all flocking to get into this one

Everything about this row is organic. It has grown out of the soil of the recent British past, watered and nurtured by our own memories and fears - planted firmly in the earth of our national culture. The current debate on genetically modified food may have some international strains but, at root, it's a peculiarly British flower.

By Jonathan Freedland17 Feb

Buy organic

Buy organic food online

15 Feb

Countdown to the food crisis

Sep 1985: Pathologist allegedly identifies BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) in a cow at Pitsham Farm, Midhurst, W Sussex.

15 Feb

How Britain eats

In 1996 the British spent £52billion on household food (as opposed to eating out) and £28 billion on alcoholic drinks. (Source: MAFF National Food Survey 1996) The average person's weekly spending on household food and drink is £22.99. Spending on food outside the home accounts for 28 per cent of weekly spending on food. Spending on household food accounts for 11 per cent of total consumer spending.

15 Feb

Glossary

Bacillus cereusBacterium found in cereal products, spices and especially cornflour, which means that even vegans cannot escape food poisoning. Causes nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps and diarrhoea.

15 Feb

Call for lord to go over GM food row

Conservatives called yesterday for Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the billionaire scion of the supermarket dynasty, to be removed as Science Minister in the wake of the row over genetically modified food.

By Nicholas Watt15 Feb

GM food row splits Labour

The government is facing pressure from within its own ranks to establish an independent ethics commission on genetically modified food, amid growing evidence of deep divisions among ministers over the safety of GM products.

By Lucy Ward, Political Correspondent15 Feb

Supermarkets and genetically-modified food

Sainsbury's

By Patrick Barkham15 Feb

'The right of consumers to choose whether or not to eat GM food should be respected'

The furore over genetically modified food during the past week has generated heat and no light. But it seems clear there are dangers to the environment and possibly to individual health.

14 Feb

Miracle foods that the public won't swallow

It was supposed to be the food of tomorrow: a genetically engineered ambrosia to feed Earth's hordes next century. But it has turned into a political nightmare.

14 Feb

Shops warning ordered on gene food

Mandatory labelling of all genetically modified food sold in shops, takeaways and restaurants is to be introduced next month in an attempt to quell growing fear of the 'Frankenstein foods'.

By Patrick Wintour, Antony Barnett and Robin McKie14 Feb

Supermarket sweep

Fiona Snowball and Jackie O'Connell have just spent more than £200 on their weekly family shops at Sainsbury. They have six kids between them - there are plenty of biscuits, cakes and cereals packed into two large trolleys.

14 Feb

Why it would be wrong to ban GM food

I understand the public concern about genetic modification. It is a powerful new technology.

14 Feb

Flaws in the food chain

The pressure for a moratorium on genetically modified food - at least until more rigorous testing has been done - is beginning to look like a tidal wave. It has produced an unholy alliance of William Hague, John Redwood, leftward-leaning lobbies and the European Parliament (which yesterday voted for legislation that could make biotech companies legally responsible for the adverse effects of releasing organisms). Yesterday, the Consumers Association urged the Government to block further GM products pending overhaul of the regulatory system - the first call for a ban in its 40 year history.

12 Feb

Killer food bug's legacy of suffering

In the two-and-a-half years since the rundown little town of Wishaw found itself at the centre of the world's worst outbreak of fatal E.coli poisoning, many wounds have failed to heal. The deaths of 20 people in the Lanarkshire food poisoning outbreak have been marked by families and friends; time has moved on. But for those who survived, there is illness and dissatisfaction at the tired grind of the legal system.

By Gerard Seenan10 Feb

Nightmare shift at the chicken gulag

Two hundred of us work nights in "the gulag" as some of us call the giant chicken slaughterhouse and processing factory. Many of us have been bused in 50 miles from Ipswich and Great Yarmouth. We started at 6.35pm and now it's 1.40am, so there are 75 minutes to go. The sound system blares All You Need Is Love, but we are showing violent tendencies towards what management calls "the product".

9 Feb

How Sweden controlled the bug

In 1953, 100 people died in Sweden after a salmonella outbreak. Today, the country boasts a salmonella prevalence of under 1 per cent, thanks to an alternative agriculture system, Kretslopp - agriculture in harmony with the cycle of nature.

By Libby Brooks9 Feb

Quality control tries to keep up as production lines go faster

Quality control in Britain's chicken plants is an increasing nightmare as production lines move faster.

By James Meikle9 Feb

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Food stories

The first signs of brain-damage from GM food? Hounding Sainsbury

Unmodified views on GM

Firms fined for breaching GM crop regulations

Dr Evil and his Moneymen: we're all flocking to get into this one

Buy organic

Countdown to the food crisis

How Britain eats

Glossary

Call for lord to go over GM food row

GM food row splits Labour

Supermarkets and genetically-modified food

'The right of consumers to choose whether or not to eat GM food should be respected'

Miracle foods that the public won't swallow

Shops warning ordered on gene food

Supermarket sweep

Why it would be wrong to ban GM food

Flaws in the food chain

Killer food bug's legacy of suffering

Nightmare shift at the chicken gulag

How Sweden controlled the bug

Quality control tries to keep up as production lines go faster

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