Articles

Cultivating Myths – The Pro-GMO Bias of the BBC

9th June 2015

Is the BBC balanced – or biased? This week’s Panorama programme entitled GM Food: Cultivating Fear has answered that question for most of us.

Those 2015 manifestos in full

24th April 2015

Read what the main parties have to say about GMOs – and weep. And then start asking them some tough questions about how they will fix our broken food system

Eat GMOs, get fat?

20th February 2015

As a new global report shows we are losing the obesity war, it’s time to ask: could GMOs be contributing to this weighty problem?

GMOs – a game of risk

29th January 2015

An important joint statement by hundreds of independent scientists deconstructs the notion that there is ‘scientific consensus’ on the safety of GMOs

Keeping the pressure up on GMOs in 2015

31st December 2014

A year end message from the Beyond GM Team. We’ve had a great year, and with your help and support we are looking forward to a busy – and GMO-free – 2015.

Who says GMOs are safe? (and who says they’re not)

8th December 2014

Claims that big international institutions believe that GMOs are safe, are often either exaggerated or outright misleading. Here are the facts.

How seriously is your MP taking your GMO concerns?

5th December 2014

MPs’ replies to our supporters’ questions have, thus far, been disappointing form letters. On behalf of all citizens, it’s time to start pushing our politicians to be smart, not smug, when it comes to GMOs.

Biofortification – solution or distraction?

21st November 2014

GM crops, fortified with extra nutrients, proposes itself as a simple solution to world hunger; but the truth is there are no simple solutions

A vision of food and farming beyond GM

11th November 2014

A healthy, equitable, sustainable food system from a healthy, equitable, sustainable agriculture is attainable but to get there we have to bring about major changes and move Beyond GM.

Synbio – the scariest GMOs you’ve never heard of

9th October 2014

This extreme form of genetic engineering seeks to “design and construct new biological parts, devices and systems that do not currently exist in the natural world.” Yikes!